[Music] So our first guest on today's Big Blend Radio show is celebrated yoga instructor and best-selling author Tara Stiles. She's joining us to chat about her fun new National Geographic kids book. It's called Yoga Animals, a wild introduction to kid-friendly poses. Of course you can get on Amazon all those places, you can go right to National Geographic Kids. But you can also connect with Tara, just go to tarastyle.com and that's STI-L-E-S. So welcome Tara, how are you? I'm doing pretty good, thanks for having me, it's awesome to chat with you ladies. You too, you too, so I want to say Tara and then it's Tara. So, you know, I've gone with the wind, so I want to make sure I leave your name correctly, it's Tara, so it'll be the... It doesn't matter, well I'm from a tiny town in the Midwest, so my mom and dad call it Tara, but I grew up doing contemporary dance to all of the fancy people. I know Kamitara, so I'll take either, you know. I know I respond to any of the yoga ladies, you know, whatever you want. I like that, like I was Lisa and then depending on where we lived, like when we lived in South Africa, Lisa or Liza, you know. No, it's okay, Lisa's good, Lisa's good, I don't really care, you know. But listen, this book is fun, fun, fun. Again, yoga animals and I'm excited to talk about kids doing yoga because they even feel like kids in meditation should have that connection too, because we do live in a stressful world. And I feel like kids are going through stress and they should start learning these kinds of techniques at a very young age so that it prepares them for even when they're getting into middle school high school. So I kind of put yoga and meditation in one and breathing is like the whole package. So what is it that led you to go, "Hey, I'm going to do this for kids." Is it that part of what I'm talking about is getting kids to learn these stressing techniques before they get stressed out? Oh, absolutely. And just having the tools, I think you said that so well, just having the tools to deal with the stress, not to sort of shove it down or slam the door, push it away, but deal with it. And I feel like I got lucky, I was introduced to yoga as a teenager and, you know, yoga is everywhere now, and we can actually share it with our kids with things like this book and just knowing more about it. So, you know, you don't have to wait until so many things go wrong in your life now to have a mental breakdown and discover it. You can share these practices with your kids and make it part of the whole family's fun and sort of playful activity, but also baked into that is, of course, the mindfulness and feeling better. But I think when you do it with the kids, it comes from their idea from the inside out. And I know we have a three-year-old and I know just from doing yoga with our daughter, it's more like it's her idea and she can take ownership of it than, you know, something I'm telling her she has to do right now, like, you know, eat her supper or go to bed or whatever those kind of, you know, maybe even stressful moments are in her life so far. So, that also makes it more of a funding instead of this is your chore. Yeah, this is like, this is your funding, like, you know, kids get into it. I want to be a ballerina. I want to do this. I want to swim. You know, Nancy, you got me in the pool at about six months. You know, wow. Yeah, you will battle. It was a class. Yeah, I didn't do it on my own. I went to class and there were all little babies and mommy's there. And it was really interesting what happened because as we put babies naturally like water. They really do. And it, but there was like, okay, now show your child by what you're doing. Hold your breath and they mimic you. And it's funny how that works. I will hold my breath and make it visual. And then she was older breath. And then you could take her down under the water. And she'd laugh and then bring it up. And a little bump was coming out. And so, I mean, it was like, wow, look at that. Before when you're going to take your child underwater, it's like, oh, no, I'm not. But then when I got there, I was like, it was awesome. Wow. So empowering. Yeah. And isn't that what doing yoga with with, you know, I look at everybody, you know, stuck at home. People are working from home that this could be like a whole family activity. Even for immune system, right. So even for a family break, because everybody's suddenly having to work and live together. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think it's great for families because it's not just another, you know, activity, like, whether it's reading a book or watching a movie or going outside. I mean, all those things have their, have their, you know, reasons that you can do them as well. But this is something that it's an activity to do together and it's fun, but it's also, it's also good for your body. It's good for your mind. It's good for your confidence. It's good for pretty much everything that it sounds, you know, like a false claim. It's good for your mood. It's good for your your, you know, your creativity and everything and how you feel about yourself. And, you know, sort of checks off all the boxes, but it doesn't feel like you're, you know, taking a vitamin or sort of doing something from the outside in it's sort of this. Okay, I'm doing something that's fun and especially seeing the animals. It's so inspiring to reach like a giraffe or been like a gorilla. And, you know, you can get that inspiration from, you know, animals are, I'm sure they have their stresses as well. But they're not using extra energy all the time that they don't need to purely stress themselves out there, you know, stress from finding food and finding the right shelter. But if they're not stressed for those reasons, they're resting and they're relaxing and they're playing and they're enjoying their lives. So it's really beautiful to see the kids see the animal simply doing their thing and enjoying their lives and kind of taking that cue from the animal and maybe from the mom or the mom or the dad or the caregiver, big brother, big sister and say, Okay, I can, I can, I can have fun too. And I can feel confident and empowered and this can, this can really be some time for me. And it doesn't feel like you're, you know, being taught another lesson or being told to quiet down from the outside or told to be quiet or, you know, I think yoga can be taught two ways. One is you have to do it this way and another way is try it out and see how it feels for you. And I think this, you know, when you see the animals do it. It's, it's more of that organic approach of, Oh, wow, I have the idea now to do it just like them. And now I feel good about myself. You know, I love this because, you know, there's this, I always felt like you had to, you know, even going to yoga class, you need to be a skinny mini and you have to look like, you don't mean there's this image. Oh, yeah, 100% Yeah. And then it's like, then I remember hearing that, Oh, if you go to yoga, everyone bends over and then you smell things. I'm just saying there's so many fears. I mean, that's the reason I started sharing it. I mean, I never thought when I was a little kid that I would become a yoga teacher. I mean, I grew up doing dance and I got introduced to yoga in our dance conservatory. And my first thought was, Oh my gosh, this is amazing. This is something that makes me feel good and it's not competitive and I'm not getting judged. I guess I had a really good teacher. And my second thought was why, why doesn't all my friends do this and why isn't this kind of everywhere. And then, you know, like, like anything you kind of get involved and see Oh, people feel intimidated because you see the end point of the pose and somebody feels left out or it just looks kind of silly or maybe there was some bad teachers, you know, putting people in a poses or there's a cult here and there, whatever it is, you know, with anything. Yeah, it's more of just a human problem. And so I just got so excited to share with my friends that had anxiety or back pain or, you know, going to a breakup or having a child and wanting an activity to relate and, you know, my experience with yoga were so positive and so I guess normal in that way where it's inside everybody like a sis element. It's not something you have to be good at. It's something that you're already able to do. You just have to do it and experience it for yourself. So, you know, anything that can help bring that out. So, you have as strong as is your company in being practiced what in over 100 countries, which is really wonderful that yoga is spreading out. I mean, obviously, it's an ancient form of well being right and wellness. You know, and I think about kind of flipping it up a little bit. You know, it's reading it a lot of what you do is great because you also look at childhood obesity and I wonder it's like, okay, diet, habits. Where you're sitting in front of maybe a screen. Yeah, video games and things like that. And when you think about this pandemic, it's like, oh, no, I want to, you know, mask my child. It's like almost put a bag of. Yeah, Gary. But this, this whole thing with yoga, does it lead to. To children as they go into adulthood, understanding, tranquility, peace and focus because I know you're also a model. And I was thinking, when you have to stand in a position or even walk the runway, depending on what you're doing or sit in a position. There's a kind of focus you have to have where you're alert, you're not checked out, but you're in a focus. That's why I was talking about meditation before because I think they go hand in hand. So does it have help children kind of on that path of kind of living better and maybe not picking up the soda once they're starting to feel good that it will change their, their metabolism, and then their focus from that. Yeah, I think, yeah, exactly. And I think what's so cool about, especially if your goal with yoga is about feeling better. And I think that's why I'm so passionate about leading kids and sharing this message with adults and everybody because, you know, just like everything else in life, we try to do it. We try to, we try to be really good at it and we sort of wear our stress is a sign of success and look at me. I'm trying really hard and sort of beating myself up in the process and your, your anecdote just reminded me there was a little kid once I had in a group class and he was heavier than the other kids and you could tell he was a little bit insecure about it. And, you know, just broke my heart watching him and we were doing this kind of crow pose playing around rocking for him back and I went over to him just because I felt he needed some, you know, personal attention. And he said, you know, I weigh and he knew how many pounds he weighed, which is always, you know, that's also really intense for a little one. He was probably about seven years old. And he said, so I can't, so I can't do this pose because I weigh this amount. And I said, Oh, no, no, it's nothing to do with that. So I just started showing him how to do the movements and how it was more about where you put your body in the position and how you connect with your breath. And, you know, he started doing the movement and he could do the pose and, you know, he came off the ground and he was so excited. And I tried not to like, let him see that I was crying over that. But, but you know that sense of empowerment and that sense of, you know, you feel better so then you want to make better choices and, you know, just just dealing with dealing with kids and seeing all of them. The research of documentaries and the kids I've met over the years that are having problems with anxiety or being overweight or these things. It's never about the food. It's always about how they feel about themselves. And, you know, when it just comes into calorie burning through like really intense workouts that are actually stressing their bodies out more and their minds out more and then restricting their food. They actually don't, you know, our bodies can't lose weight that way when we're not relaxed. So, you know, in a way, it's really about doing yoga in a way that helps you feel better and making you feeling better the goal instead of, you know, doing this thing so you can be good at yoga. So your metabolism works better and your immunity is better and sort of checking off those boxes. But, you know, when you really switch the goal to feeling good about yourself, then, you know, sort of the world really opens up. And, you know, amazing things happen that sort of, you know, even even the stories that I've met of people over the years, they seem kind of not possible. But, you know, of course, yoga is not the thing that's making it happen. It's them sort of healing themselves through the movement and through the practice and then, you know, the sky's really the limit with with what can happen. That's really cool. I love, I love to hear that because don't, don't, I just feel like there's also like your body knows, like, when you start taking care of yourself, I feel like your body goes, thank you your PIA, it's about time later, get on with it. You know, so true. Well yeah, you know, even if you end up like at the dentist or a doctor for some issue, right. And all of a sudden it's like, oh yeah, I haven't been doing this like I should or whatever and you start doing it. It's like you immediately start to feel better because you're, it's like you were saying taking ownership. You're taking ownership of your well being and I think young kids do understand that. It's about what you have them for. You know, yeah, and kids, I mean, just know from having a three year old she knows what she wants to do and what she doesn't want to do and she knows when she's stressed and when she's not stressed she may not be articulating it but you know if you pay attention, you can kind of pick up on these things so, you know, we kind of, we just get better at hiding it as we get older and like you said, as soon as you start paying attention to how you feel, you know, it's like watering a plant the water goes right to all the places in the roots that it needs to go. It doesn't say, I don't know if I need water today or, you know, maybe tomorrow I don't want to take water from the next person, you know, any of those weird things that we kind of get mixed up in our heads about self care. And I mean, I think I grew up in a generation of, you know, you take care of yourself last and take care of everybody else first, but of course, you know, the math on that doesn't really work out. No, that's to make any sense at all. Yeah, sort of just getting back to having yoga as a practice of taking care of yourself and of really kind of valuing that and, you know, maybe we can share that with our kids not by lecturing them but by, you know, doing it all, and getting on the floor with them and having fun and making it be about, oh, mom and dad and, you know, big brother and cousin or whoever are taking care of themselves too. So it's important for me. It's not just, you know, somebody telling me something but their behavior doesn't match what they're talking about, you know. So, animals, what led you to go let's use animals in this book. Oh my gosh, well, it's fun. Yeah, you know, National Geographic is, you know, has so many beautiful imagery of animals and they're so it's such a great way to show it through the photos and, you know, just in their natural environment doing things and, you know, of course, animals aren't thinking, oh, I'm doing this yoga position and I need to move my neck a little bit over this way. They're doing it sort of naturally and organically for them. And I think it's such a clear message that the little one can see the picture and go, oh, I can do that too because, you know, it doesn't say on the page that animal is taking really good care of themselves and doing exactly what they need to do for their body and their family and their life. They're just simply doing it and they don't need, you know, the pile of self help books that we might have needed over the years. And there's a lot to learn just from that sort of easy information and taking that visual in and just, you know, seeing our little one Daisy, you know, there's a gorilla one where you, you know, the gorillas pounding its chest in one picture and then bending over the other picture and, you know, she pounds her chest and I don't, I don't tell her what's the time to pound your chest, you just look to the picture and stand but nice and proud and, and pounds her chest and you know that's just really cool to see. I love the gorilla one because you can almost use it to let off steam. Like, yeah, and then bend over and breathe, you know what I mean? It's kind of like a, because kids have that pent up energy too and it's like always go sit in the corner like no, no, right, and we're never allowed to scream and shout. We're always told to be quiet and yeah, it's just kind of nice to get it out. Yeah, Nancy. Hey, wait a minute. You as a child took all your clothes off and ran around the garden all the time, swinging your clothes in your hand. Tell me you were pent up as a child. No, I wasn't. No, no, it's good. Do you know what? Yeah, taking your clothes off. You should. No, I mean, every day. I'm in the garden, take the clothes off, swinging in their hand and then she went and took the whole garden and a ruler and was conducting the orchestra at the flower. So I think she's okay. Yeah, pretty good too. Yeah, thank you. Well, you know, I was raised in nature. I was raised in English for many years in Kenya, not for many years, but really in the woods. And we were laughing about the flamingo in the book. I don't know what's going on, but since we've got back on the road in early, well, mid February, we got on the road and we went to the Salton Sea in California, which is a birding destination, but it's also like this stinky mud pool of something going on. And the water there, something it's weird. Anyway, it was an old resort town and it was just south of Joshua Tree National Park. It's like a salt content thing. So that's what it gets. It's weird anyway, but it's cool because all these birds are there and I photographed a flamingo right there on the beach because someone put a pink flamingo there and they don't belong here. And so many people on Instagram thought it was a real flamingo. So anyway, ever since then, everywhere we've gone, there's flamingos somewhere and then you're following you and I'm like, dude, I'm going to look at the spirit thing of flamingos. But flamingo, you know, Nancy said they stand, it's like the Messiah, when I was a kid, I learned how to stand like a Messiah and I can, and it's weird in that you stand with your, your, I don't know yoga stuff because actually that's why I said I really love your book is because it gets to be in depth if you try to do it on your own. So I want to start with the kids book. Thank you. Your yoga animal. But you stand in your foot. You stand your right foot or the foot, depending on who you are, you'll stand on one foot and you can balance your, how do you call the base of your foot on your knee. Yeah, but on the side. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. You just stand like that. And when you do that, all of a sudden you become this very rested position, yet it looks absolutely weird to the rest of the world. But it's so comfortable. They can jump without running and jumping. They can just, it's, it's, it's beautiful what they can do. But I think they mimic animals and birds. And I think as kids, we do that. And I think what's great about your book is you're also teaching kids to get into what nature and what animals do and to have this other thing other than let's shoot things up on the screen. You know what I mean? They're, you know, they're getting this appreciation of wildlife. And I think that's very cool to do that. Yeah. I mean, it's, I think it's important. I mean, you know, I remember being a little kid too out in the woods and kind of being friends with a little ants and realizing just because they're smaller than me doesn't mean I need to step on them all, you know, and just respecting animals and respecting nature. And yeah, I think it's just so important to have that relationship with, I mean, I'm talking preaching to the choir with you guys, but, you know, it's just, I think it's really important for us to remember that we're part of nature. We're not just these people who, you know, sort of control everything from our computer screens or whatever we think we're doing all day long. But mimicking is like when you mimic something, when I was a singer, I learned breath work, and which would be kind of going to your yoga side right so you learn and I was healthier as a singer because I didn't even realize I was using all these muscles. Didn't have any breathing issues and all of that when I did that. But when you start learning, you mimic others and other singers, and then you find your own place, your own style, your own sound of what's, you know, what's integrity has integrity to who you are. But I think when you're mimicking animals as kids, not only learning about them, but it's an easier way. You know what I mean, you know what I mean, you know what I mean, where you start, you have to copy to learn something, and it's a really fun way to do it. Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, you know, just seeing our little one go through the books and just kids that I've seen just in classes over the years that you know you show them something, and they run away with it. They do it in their own way anyway, and especially once they learn a little bit of vocabulary, just like learning a learning anything like learning the alphabet, you know, then they have their moves and then they get really confident about I'm going to do this one and then this one and they, you know, their own routine because they feel like they can they've learned the technique they learned the alphabet and then, you know, then they're finding their own voice probably just like how you so nicely described, you know, learning how to sing and then making it your own. I think that's such a cool process also just to get comfortable with and, and really learning that confidence of, you know, being inspired by nature, but then also realizing your, you have a lot of power in you to really do things in your life. And I think that that sort of confidence, you know, a lot of people just have it, whatever happens to you in life and a lot of people get squashed somewhere along the way and that's just, you know, heartbreaking, I think, for a lot of people. You know, I can help people, you know, at whatever age, but especially at a young age, just stay connected to that, you know, okay, I can do this, I can, I can get through this and I can stay connected to myself and I'm going to be okay. I think that's, you know, a huge life lesson. It's yoga connected to meditation. Yeah, I mean, in my opinion, I think, you know, all of this can be so like, you know, there's, there's schools for so many different styles of all of these things, but it's, you know, it's very, it's very similar. It's very connected. So, you know, a lot of people think and I love to think of yoga as a moving meditation. So a lot of people have trouble sitting and connecting with their breath oftentimes because they feel like they have to not move or be rigid when they're sitting. So if you can, you know, try to sit when you're breathing or lie down in meditation and allows your body to be movable with your breath, just like the ocean. So the ocean isn't kind of rigid and, you know, letting the waves. I don't know if the wave should come today or not, but the ocean is soft. So when the wave comes, you know, a big inhale moves your body upward and outward, like a big expansion, almost like the world kind of going out. And as you exhale, you soften and release in. And when you can really, you know, find that through whatever position you're in, whether it's, you know, standing and cooking in the kitchen or walking and standing in line or sitting in a sort of more described meditation or doing yoga. Then, you know, I think there's, there's really a lot of room for it to blend into what life can be. It doesn't need to be just, you know, 10 minutes that you do, you know, in a dark room, you know, or shut the bathroom door to get your quiet time that can really, you know, be part of who you are not so crazy. Shut that door. No, but it's, but it is interesting because I think meditation is also very difficult to get into that, you know, everything's going crazy in your head was yoga because you're, you're a participant is versus sitting there. I think that's the different. I mean, it gives you something to do. I mean, and, you know, I think it would be really challenging in a yoga class to, you know, come into the room and just lay down and relax. I mean, there's a reason why the relaxation is at the end, not the beginning. You've done some movements and you've sort of worked out your kinks and quirks and you've breathed and your mind starts to calm naturally sort of from the inside out. And then after that sort of after that's finished, then you can relax and lay down or you can sit for a little bit and, and, and be in touch with your breath. But I think it's, I think it's almost necessary. We have bodies that are meant to move. We need to move them in order to get out the wiggles and the energy a little bit and the meditation isn't meant to be. At least I don't think it needs to be perfectly still, you know, if you can be like a tree and soften and let the wind move your branches and allow yourself to be comfortable and adjust when you're not comfortable. I think there's so much, you know, that's missed out in meditation when people kind of suffering through it and throwing their brow and, you know, looking really, you know, like that like they're having a miserable time of it. You know, you, it doesn't really get better from miserable and meditation. So it gets comfortable and allowing it to happen. And have fun. And, and there's a change doing yoga. Like, if you go out to the beach and do yoga, you know, you always see, you know, you look at like stock photos and magazine photos of yoga on the beach. There's yoga like over the Grand Canyon. Does it make a difference? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think it's, it's beautiful. Any chance you can, you can get anywhere. I mean, there's so many, you know, just be able to see the nature around is, is gorgeous and nice and, you know, to have, to have an experience of doing that on your own is really, really cool and also special. I mean, we're all sort of indoors at some point in the day. So that just makes, I think almost more logistical sense that I've been doing these live classes with people online. And a lot of times people send me photos of themselves and they're out on their deck or they're in their backyard or wherever they are. They've chosen the place that feels best for them. But yeah, I think any chance you can get to go outside and do something and, you know, feel the ground or the sand underneath your feet and breathe. It's almost, it's almost hard to be tense when you're outside. Yeah. One step more challenging to fight yourself in that way. So it's an absolute benefit. I agree. That's what we do, Nancy. Outside as much as we can. Yeah. Outside time. Yeah, it should be more outside than inside. Oh, I am with you on that. Well, I think that also in the part of our initiative with our love your park stories to document parks, but we're seeing more and more benefits of having community parks as we did our tours, always just about national park units. And we quickly learned that all parks matter. I mean, even wearing my t-shirt all parks matter, because they're saying that there's all these, you know, studies for communities that people need to be able to get to a park within their community. To get to a park within five to 10 minutes from their house or their apartment. And the more congested we're living in small apartments. And I know you're, you're like, you know, Brooklyn area in New York. I know you guys have tiny apartments and I know people with bath tubs in their kitchen. You know, you need out, man. So these parks are such a huge thing. And I feel like, how do you yoga? How do you do yoga? Like a clamped little place you need out. So I feel like the community parks are part of this. Oh, yes. And you can feel so distance with yoga, right? You can still do yoga, but the six feet apart from each other. Oh, yeah. I mean, a lot of people in our community and just, you know, because of social media, everybody shares their images, but are starting to get back to their group classes and a lot of people have chosen to take their group that is usually in the studio outside for the moment because everybody's just in their community feeling better about, you know, being in the fresh air and it's been beautiful to see. I mean, everybody's, you know, six feet apart or more, whatever, and enjoying the nature. And I think it's really, you know, in a way revitalized or given a lot of people new ideas that you can go outside and do yoga. I mean, that's how I started in New York. I made this sign and I said free yoga over here in Central Park and people just showed up and we had a good time and it was, you know, great way to meet people that wanted to feel better and to make friends and. And, and yeah, any chance you can get to go outside is, it's just wonderful and we're at, we're outside every day we, you know, we write on our bikes and go to the park and wherever we can that has, you know, open space. It's so important. I love what you've done and I also, I know Dr Jackie Obani is our heart doctor, our heart to help the expert and she talks about women and heart disease and it's the biggest killer of women. And if we change our lifestyle, you know, in regards to doing yoga, walking, meditation, healthy diet, we can reverse the effects by 80% and have a healthy heart, but we don't even know a lot of times when we're having a heart attack. We're not like Fred Sanford, falling over going with this I'm coming, you know, and so, so we have this thing with women and so I think, I also see like this being a really cool mom and daughter mom and, you know, son thing I'm not leaving men out at all, but I feel like moms are so stressed out and women multitask and we put ourselves through the ringer and I feel like this is one of those things that mom and their kids can do to kind of find that moment of then, and can help You're so right, I mean, with our little one, like we'll do some yoga and it just, you know, it's not formal, it's not like, oh, and now we have to do this pose, you know, we go just go through whatever she wants to do and it just ends up, you know, with her crawling all over me and playing and having fun and, you know, easily transitioning into the next activity of running around the house. So, so yeah, it's a great moment of stress release and, you know, taking good care of yourself taking good care of each other and I think that's, you know, we don't give kids credit enough, they actually are taking care of us when we, you know, we can, we see them take care of themselves and it helps us to feel better and, especially with yoga, you can have your little one or it doesn't matter if they're tiny or, or older, any size in between but crawl on you during yoga and they'll just, you know, lean into all the right places like a dog or a cat or, you know, anybody kind of crawling around when you're in a forward bend and it's going to feel amazing and be a great kind of, you know, moment or at the part. That's awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Now, okay. Last question. Got to run. We got one time thing. Yeah. I know we're not blind if we see yoga, right? We're allowed all hundred percent. Oh, thank you. They can't even get Dr. Jacobs is only four ounces a day, but just because of the, the, you know, they're finding it be more and more that wine is better for us. So now we're up to five ounces, but I'm not telling her how much we had to. I'm not telling her. Not telling her, but you're going to do like your favorite animal pose. What's your favorite animal to pose. Well, you know, I have to say, I think from, you know, looking at the, the beautiful animals in this book, I have to say, I think the flamingo is, you know, my favorite. I want to be like, like a bunny. I'm going to do the bunny. Yeah, the bunny is really fun. Really, really fun. But yeah, I mean, I guess I'm, I'm kind of like you, I just stand in that position. Anyway, some for some reason, it's always been comfortable for me. There's just, you know, pictures to me as a kid kind of standing like that. And, you know, who does a love a hot pink flamingo? It just looks like from a different planet. So beautiful. Nancy, what are you? What are you going to do? I got to go cat. Nice. Listen, listen, cats are, they do the best cat, cat yoga. I mean, I don't know. The one in your book, like reminds me of our one cat. I have to say this, and I shouldn't, but I'm going to. Mine's a spray bob. And his name is that, but you go look at the photo and you'll know what I mean. Amazing. But no cats do all kinds of cool. You know, they go in the sun and stretch. Yeah, I used to stretch her whole body and arch it. And we used to call her Athena, the goddess, who knows everything about everything. I used to lie down to her health cop here. Yeah. I got to go camp with that one. I could, I would, I used to copy her and she would look at me like you're just doing this wrong. You don't know what you're doing. You have no clue. You're just right now. I need to relax. Yeah, she just looked at me like you're just a mere human. You have no clue. Yeah. And I would try to copy her. I'm like, okay, I'm going to do this. And she just really gave me that look like, you know, and so it was fun. That's why you're like, this is so cool. But we're going to play a song. It's called Uncle Remus Tails. It's an awesome song about kids and animals. And it's from our friends, the tall men group. You can keep up with them at Tom and group Weebly.com and on Facebook. But we're going to also say go to Tara's website, Tara styles.com. And also go get the book National Geographic Kids Yoga Animals. A wild introduction to kids friendly poses get on Amazon, all those places. You're independent bookstore as soon as you know, you can. If they're opening the order it there, you know, support our independence as well. So thank you so much, Tara. It's been a real pleasure. Oh, thank you so much. You guys are amazing. So you are too fun. I hope to get out there on the trail. Yeah, I know. Let me get up your way. We're going to no sleep because it's Brooklyn. We actually just pitched a tent on our front porch. So you can stay inside. We have a bedroom for you, but we can also hang out on the tent too. Okay, cool. Stand on your deck like flamingos. Yeah, exactly. We'll have fun. I like that. I like that. But here it is, everybody. Uncle Rema's Tales. Take care. He come home from work. I was already in bed. Momma's six on the plate. I'd stay awake, which I knew once he was fed. He climbed downstairs, opened the door to my room. With a pad on her head, he'd sit on the edge and read me a story or two. About brother Bear, I missed the cricket. Oh, Bear, have a love jumping in the thicket. And Brave King Lion, saving sister camp. They lived together and them would somehow, every time, without fear. They'd all been to dreamland out there. With Daddy reading, their Uncle Rema's Tales. Now that old storyteller, he'd lived in a cabin in the south. With a concor pipe, bouncing just right, stories flowed with the smoke from his mouth. Daddy would read him just the way day was read. Damn creatures came alive at my bedside, sometimes scared me a bit. Like when sister Box met Swamp Gator that gives it here, nearly here. Don't be frightened now, brothers from. You'll be saving that old holland love, every time, without fear. They'd all been to dreamland out there. With Daddy reading, their Uncle Rema's Tales. Now I come home from work, my boys never asleep. I fix me a plate, climb them stairs, into his room I will pick. I give it his friends, I play in their video games. I shake my head, and shut the door, think to myself what a shame. Nobody cares, prayer rabbits in the thicket, or brave king lions, saving sister camp. Wish my Daddy would read me one down, like when sister Box met Swamp Gator. Man that gives it here, nearly here, nearly every time, without fear. They'd all been to dreamland out there. With my Daddy reading, their Uncle Rema's Tales. Some nights we'd both fall asleep, to their Uncle Rema's Tales. [Music]
