I really liked the way this book was laid out. I think this is a really useful book for parenting. Being a parent is hard and stressful, this book definitely gives some techniques to help with that.

The Yoga of Parenting distills some yoga wisdom into insights that are relevant to modern parents. Divided into sections of Awareness, Transformation, and Connection, it touches on everything from finding calm to setting limits to social media to letting go.

As a long-time yoga practitioner, I appreciated seeing the yogic perspective applied to parenting. Each chapter begins with an insightful quote and includes posture information, yoga philosophy, and real life family examples. I loved the bullet-pointed lists of main takeaways at the end of each chapter. My biggest qualm with this book is when the author went into soapbox/memoir-like tangents, which I don't enjoy or find those useful in parenting books.

Thank you to Shambhala Publications and NetGalley for gifting me with an ARC to review. I enjoyed it!

This book was a breath of fresh air! I loved how it was broken out into different sections & that each chapter correlated to a specific yoga pose & topic. It tackles a lot of common struggles/issues that parents face - both with their child and themselves. Sarah provided tons of resources to look into for further information as well. The topics covered were so relevant for me with an almost 2 year old and has helped me reset some areas/some of my mindsets. Really loved this and would suggest it to any parent - especially a new parent or expecting parent!

The Yoga of Parenting was such a fascinating and uplifting read! It really forced me to take a second to breathe and to look inside myself at some of the pieces I’m struggling with around parenting, and learning to let go. I’m not a perfect parent, but no parent is. Perfect isn’t possible, and perfection in parenting is an in achievable and unrealistic goal. It took me a while to get through because it’s not really the kind of book you plow through… in instead chose to read a chapter at a time and absorb as much as I could from it.

I gave it 4.5!stars rounded up because sometimes I found it a little wordy, and also because while I was pretty sure I knew what the yoga move looked like based on the name and description from years of yoga classes, I would have loved a few photo sprinkled in to help aid the instructions!!

Some of my favourite parts of the book are;
- the ten takeaways at the end of each chapter for busy parents (VERY HELPFUL!)
- the really neat yoga references and definitions (such as the definition/ meaning of vinyasa - you’ll have to read the book to find out!)
- each section starts off with a really good thought quote not by the author, thereby she incorporated relevant thoughts outside of her own.
My fav quote included is: “ Parenting isn’t about what our child does, but about how we respond. In fact, most of what we call parenting doesn’t take place between a parent and child but within the parent. —Dr. Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids”
- the concept she introduced of LA PAUSE.

All-in-all though it was a great book I’d recommend, and I think there is something for all parents to get out of this book. Thank you NetGalley, Sarah Ezrin and, Shamblahala Publishing for the arc copy to read and provide a voluntary review. All thoughts and opinions are mine.

The Yoga of Parenting was a good way to remind yourself that parenting is crazy all you can do is breathe and go along for the ride!

Sarah had an easy way of mixing in yoga philosophies and applying them to parenting struggles. I do think this would be a good one to listen to on an audiobook so you could do the postures while listening to the message to really connect everything together physically.

I enjoyed the first few chapters and really felt like they applied to me right now with my three year old. She reminds you to breathe, stay present and not compare yourself to other parents.

As with all parenting books you take what you need and leave the rest.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Since I was pregnant I was looking for an inspiring book about parenting. Two years later I finally found it in the yoga of parenting. As a devoted yoga practitioner I loved the parallels between yoga and parenting in this book and how you practice help you to be the better parent you can be. At least it helps me ! I think this book is appropriate even if you are not a devoted yoga practitioner because the pose are very simple one. It's much more about taking a little time to ground, to refresh and restart with a lot more patience, energy and presence. Give yourself a gift, read this book !!!

This is a beautiful resource for all parents. It is full of great strategies, advice, and easy to implement ideas. This is one I'll return to again and again. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the advanced copy of the book.