Maya's Little Yogis

Maya's Little Yogis Yoga for children and families!
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Sunday morning Children’s Yoga & Free Play at Backyard Farm 😌✨Every other week 💞45 minutes of yoga 🧘🏻 & 45 min of free p...
08/22/2026

Sunday morning Children’s Yoga & Free Play at Backyard Farm 😌✨

Every other week 💞

45 minutes of yoga 🧘🏻 & 45 min of free play 🌻

For kiddos 5-12 years old 👦🏼

First class is tomorrow August 23rd! 🙌🏻

Do you know what the hardest part of teaching yoga to children is?It’s not coming up with attention-grabbing activities ...
08/20/2026

Do you know what the hardest part of teaching yoga to children is?

It’s not coming up with attention-grabbing activities for the kids. It’s not the puzzle of making mindfulness fun. Not managing a room full of wiggly bodies and wandering minds. Not the teaching itself.

It’s not even the emotional weight of showing up for other people’s children while navigating my own complicated life.

So what is it?

Putting myself out there. Sending invitations. Advertising my classes. Staying consistent on social media so the algorithm doesn’t forget I exist. Bringing up my work in person without feeling like I’m selling something.

I teach because I love it. I promote because I have to. And that tension — the pull between my passion and my discomfort with self-promotion — is the part I’m still learning to navigate.

If you’ve ever felt awkward about sharing your own work, you’re not alone. I’m right there with you.

08/18/2026

This Saturday. Our family. Your family. Yoga. Dancing. Outside. Together. 🧘🏽‍♀️💃🏽✨

I am SO excited to invite you to Family Flow — a genuine offering from my family to yours. My own kiddos will be there, so you know it’s going to be joyful, wobbly, and full of love.

What to expect:
🌿 45 min parent/child yoga (all ages welcome!)
🎶 Groovy music & dance party the rest of the time
🌞 Outdoor vibes — come fed & weather-ready

Bring your own mat if you have one! (We’ll have some extras too.)

📅 This Saturday, Aug 22
⏰ 6-8pm
📍 Backyard Farm, Loma Linda

💜 Suggested donation: $5 per person (but come regardless — we want you there!)

Sign up through the Book Now link in Maya’s Little Yogis bio. 🕺

See you there? Drop a 🙌 if you’re coming!

My heart could burst. 🏝️ A parent of one of my OG yogis sent me pictures of her practicing on their vacation to Hawaii.....
08/17/2026

My heart could burst. 🏝️ A parent of one of my OG yogis sent me pictures of her practicing on their vacation to Hawaii... 🌺✨

This sweet girl has been with me since the very beginning — over 4 years ago! Watching her grow, stretch, and take her practice all the way to the islands is everything.

I feel so proud to see my little yogis carry their practice with them wherever they go. ✈️

Keep flowing, sweet girl. The world is your mat. 🌊🧘🏽‍♀️💛

07/24/2026

What a week. 🧡

Little Yogi Summer Camp Week 3 finally happened — and with 10 wonderful kids!

Of course, it started with a curveball — I started feeling sick Saturday evening before we were supposed to begin. My first instinct? Panic. 😅 But what unfolded over the next four days was nothing short of beautiful.

The kids colored mandalas, built rock mandalas, crafted zucchini boats, and made mindfulness books. They practiced yoga every day — learning breathwork, body exploration, and new yoga tricks. There was socializing, imaginary games, gardening, harvesting, feeding the farm animals, making lemonade and orange juice, and a water slide finale! 💦

Here’s the breakdown of how this week unfolded:

· Monday: My mom Erika led the whole day.
· Tuesday: Jeanne ran the show.
· Wednesday: I was feeling better, so I joined in, and Jeanne led yoga.
· Thursday: I lost my voice completely 😅 — my mom stepped in for the first hour, and Jeanne took over from there.

Here’s what I realized this week:

If I didn’t know it before, I sure feel it now — we are not meant to do life alone. We are deeply, beautifully dependent on each other. Asking for help isn’t weakness. It’s connection. It’s community.

Because I got sick, these kids got MORE variety. MORE perspectives. MORE love from MORE people. My mom. Jeanne. Both showing up with open hearts.

What could have been a stressful week turned into a gift. For me. For the kids. For all of us.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Erika and Jeanne for carrying this week with so much grace. And thank YOU parents for trusting us with your little ones. Erika Lambert 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚔 𝚈𝚘𝚐𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙹𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎 🧞‍♀️

Week 4 starts June 29 — and I’ll be there with bells on. 🤞🌿

07/21/2026

This woman made Little Yogi Camp shine today! ☀️

Jeanne stepped in and absolutely rocked it with the little yogis. First my momma, then Jeanne?! How lucky can I be? 🌟

I am so grateful for my support system—couldn’t do this without them! 🙏

Check her out 💫

My wonderful momma helped me run class today because I caught a bug and my voice was out!I am so grateful to have her.
07/20/2026

My wonderful momma helped me run class today because I caught a bug and my voice was out!

I am so grateful to have her.

Have you seen the kids doing the sea lion dance? 🦭Because apparently, it’s a whole thing — and I can’t unsee it.Technica...
07/15/2026

Have you seen the kids doing the sea lion dance? 🦭

Because apparently, it’s a whole thing — and I can’t unsee it.

Technically, bow pose (Dhanurasana) is a backbend where you hold your feet behind you and rock. But if you add a little wiggle and some dramatic flailing, it becomes a sea lion.

I’m not mad about it. In fact, I think this is the most joyful variation of bow pose I’ve ever seen.

So here’s your reminder: yoga doesn’t always have to be serious. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of kids flopping around like sea lions, laughing so hard they forget they’re even stretching.

And honestly? That’s the best kind of yoga.

Have your kids tried the sea lion dance? Drop a 🦭 in the comments if they’re fans!

Keep flopping, little yogis. ✨

My father named me Maya.He chose it after his LDS mission in Mexico, where he lived among the Maya people. He learned th...
07/12/2026

My father named me Maya.

He chose it after his LDS mission in Mexico, where he lived among the Maya people. He learned their language. He has told me about how loving and honest they are — that they could sense your truthfulness, always. They could look at the Sun and tell the time of day within 15 minutes. He noticed they could be stubborn in both the good and the bad. To him, they were a pure people.

Their culture became a part of him and he honored them by giving me their name.

There is some irony in how I got my name — it came from a religion I no longer align with. But my name has never felt like a reminder of what I am not. Instead, it has evolved with me, reinforcing the freedom to become whoever I choose to be.

In Sanskrit, Maya means “illusion.” Not illusion as in “fake.” Illusion as in ever-changing.

The philosopher Alan Watts explained: Maya points to the impossibility of boxing the ever-changing world into the mind’s rigid net of words and categories. Life, he said, is an act of art and play.

That resonates with me deeply. Who I am today is not who I was yesterday. I am shaped by what I observe, what I experience, and how I choose to interpret those things.

That freedom has taught me to trust myself deeply.

And that is exactly what I want to offer your children. Not a set of poses to memorize. Not a performance to perfect. But a relationship with their own bodies — so they can know what they are experiencing, and choose how they want to interpret it.

My legs are shaking... could mean “I’m weak” or “I’m working hard and that’s okay.”

My heart is racing... could mean “I’m scared,” or “I’m excited and alive.”

I fell out of tree pose... could mean “I failed” or “I tried and I’ll try again.”

This is the heart of Maya’s Little Yogis. Not teaching children what to think. Teaching them that they can think — and feel, and wobble, and choose.

We have the power to write our own stories.

I have my children 50% of the time. That’s 182.5 days a year without them.When they’re here, nothing else exists. When t...
07/03/2026

I have my children 50% of the time. That’s 182.5 days a year without them.

When they’re here, nothing else exists. When they’re gone, I have to learn who I am again. Every single week.

I began developing this poem late one night, after putting them to bed. Tomorrow they would go back to their dad’s. That familiar ache — the one that swallows me each time they leave — was heavy in my chest.

I sat with it. I wrote it down. I let myself feel it instead of pushing it away.

This is the mother who shows up to teach your children yoga. Someone who knows, intimately, what it means to miss someone. Someone who understands that presence — real presence — is the most precious gift we can offer.

I don’t teach yoga because I have it all figured out. I teach because I know what it means to feel unsteady. And I want your little ones to know that wobbling is part of the practice. That breath is always there to come back to. That they are safe inside themselves, even when the world feels uncertain.

If you’ve read this far, thank you. You’ve seen a piece of my heart. That’s what I bring to your children — not a polished brand, but a real human who knows how precious and fleeting this all is.

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