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Kid Yoga

Dedicated teachers
bring the benefits to moms, tots.

Jennifer Lovy I Special to the Jewish News

Ashley Goldberg
of Born Yoga gives

personal instruction
to Gabriella Golden, 7,

of Bloomfield Hills.

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pregnant moms, moms and
babies as well as children through
their teens. She also plans to
reach out to children with
life-threatening illnesses,
those who have been affect-
ed by bullying and those with special needs,
particularly autism and Asperger syndrome.
Goldberg's love for children, along with

her passion for yoga — and with
financial backing from Hebrew Free
Loan — inspired her to start her
business.
In June, Brooke Samson Miller
opened Honey Studio, a yoga and
wellness center with a focus on moms
and moms to be. This studio is more than
just a place to practice yoga, she said.
By offering a range of integrative wellness
services, Honey Studio provides something

no other yoga center in this area offers.
Such services include a weekly group called
Honey Mamas, where Miller or an outside
speaker covers a different topic relating to
health and parenting. Honey Studio has a
post-partum adjustment circle, a miscarriage
and loss support group, breastfeeding class-
es, infant massage classes and individual
psychotherapy, just to name a few.
"Honey Studio was born because becom-
ing a mother deepened my appreciation for

Left: An area at Honey Studio

devoted to information about babies.

Brooke Miller, owner of Honey Studio
in Royal Oak, in a class with daughter,

Pearl, 10 months

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yoga, for my
work as a therapist and
for life in general in indescribable
ways',' Miller said. "Yoga is meant to
support us in developing a connection
with ourselves so deep and healthy that it
becomes a blueprint for how we are able to
connect with others, so practicing with our
children seems like the obvious thing to do:'
While there are numerous articles tout-
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