Yoga for Kids with Heather Kamala
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Jun 4, 2020
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are gonna jump in and have some fun but
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in the meantime we'd love to hear from
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you so whether you're here live or on
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replay comment below and say hi we would
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love to hear from you today we are
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welcoming back the creeper of Quito kids
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yoga Heather Kamala as the director of
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her little garden Quito kids yoga school
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since 1999 she has honed her skills as a
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master teacher with children she has now
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opened a brand-new chapter with her
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Quito kids club available to all
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children ages three to nine as the
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digital format and so without further
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ado I welcome Heather Jo Heather
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hello everybody welcome back well we're
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just gonna we're just gonna step right
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in so everyone get ready cuz it's yoga
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time here we go
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yay wonderful welcome everybody I'm so
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glad that you're here today I have a
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very special program for you we're going
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to go for about 20 minutes and that's
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going to be with some high energy and
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some low energy you know me you guys
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know me this is our third session right
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well I'm really excited to show you
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something that we call Sun Salutation
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that means say hello to the Sun you see
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I'm wearing yellow today like the Sun
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and so what we're going to do is first
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get some energy out and then we're going
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to sit down and then we're going to say
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hello to the Sun and don't forget our
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friend
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uma the horse uma the horse loves to run
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run run oh but who's on Emma's back who
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is that
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AHA you're going to find out okay here
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we go ready so our high energy put your
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legs apart as far as you can go see you
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two feel like a big star your legs are
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in the ground your hands are out to the
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side and now we're going to bend our
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knees that's right bend your knees and
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put your hands on your on your thighs
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right here on your legs right and now
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we're going to bend down and touch the
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ground
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and pretend that there's a bunch of
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paint all over the ground it's just all
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different colors of paint you get all
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those colors and now we'll go to
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eight the rainbow yeah and remember this
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one reach up high high high high and now
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come down this our big movement get all
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of your different colors what color do
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you have what color are you painting
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painting your whole sky oh how fun now
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we're going to go up and down five times
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ready down and up one down and up two
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down and up three down and up what for
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last one down and up five oh that's
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beautiful when we go down and up that's
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what makes our heart go BOOM BOOM BOOM
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like a drum
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boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom you have
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your drum boom boom boom boom all right
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how about sit down and make your drum
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like this all right good job
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how about clap for yourself yay good job
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everybody okay now let us put our feet
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into our criss cross applesauce it
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that's not criss cross applesauce wait a
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minute wait a minute undo that one foot
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on the bottom one foot on top clap your
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hands and now we what stop that's right
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little by little you guys are getting to
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know can you know kids yelling I
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remember this one key doh key doh now if
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I put my hand across I can touch my knee
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right and then my hand goes up high to
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the sky and goes back down how about the
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other side high to the sky and now I'm
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going to touch my other knee so my hand
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is coming across if I have both hands at
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the same time that makes like an X and
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then I can hug myself all right so now
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if we're doing this it's key dough key
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dough how about if I clap to the top
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clap key dough key go well that's just a
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fun thing to do
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your brain awake and ready for this fun
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yoga class alright so how do we always
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start our class do you guys remember do
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you remember this one we do something
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called yoga rhymes and so it's this is
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our rule of keeps us dry and warm bring
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hands together our heart is our home but
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hey wait a minute it's getting really
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hot outside maybe I don't need to stay
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dry and warm it's not raining outside
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but it's very sunny so I still do need a
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roof so let's say in a different way
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here because it's summertime this is our
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roof keeps us cool in the shade bring
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hands together this house is homemade is
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your house homemade let's make it with
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mud let's make it with wax let's make it
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with string oh now your house is
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homemade all right good job so I welcome
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you all to this little Kido kids yoga
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session I'm so so so happy to be here
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with you okay guys are you ready we are
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going to do one more sit down
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yoga pose and what should that be should
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we say feet together butterflies knees
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down low nose to your stinky tails oh
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okay here we go how low can you go your
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elbows are pushing your knees down and
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you're going down down down let your
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head go all the way Oh stinky I think we
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need some essential oils
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oh let's wash our feet Shh let's put on
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some wonderful smells now let's do it
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again
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ready reach up up up and now we're going
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to come down down down down down and
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head to toes how low can you go hmm all
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right yes okay you guys now that was
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your little that was
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your little sit-down moment now let's
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have a stand-up moment so we're going to
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walk walk walk my feet are apart I'm
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going to push myself so that my arms go
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inside my knees like a frog like a
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ribbon like a ribbon a frog like that
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and then I'm gonna reach through oh that
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feels so good
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and that my hands are going flat down
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and I'm going to raise my seat up Oh
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grown-ups can do this to feel so good
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don't fall over and hold yourself and
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now bend your knees a little bit and
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we're going to come up are you ready
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sure like a rocket ship Shh nice alright
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are you ready to do the Sun Salutation
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okay I'm gonna tell you guys a story
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once upon a time hahaha ok once upon a
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time there was a horse and the horse's
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name was OMA Hey
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looma can you show me your horse ok the
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horse is going to say one leg up and the
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other side and show me your horses
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that's right so when we balance up whoa
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whoa whoa whoa
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and then we come down like a horse and
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and you know that horses love the Sun so
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in this story this horse named uma had a
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friend and the friend's name
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oops the friend's name was lemon grass
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the rabbit oh yeah
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lemon grass the rabbit and so once upon
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a time boom I was walking in the meadow
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walk walk walk walk walk like that and
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then boom I heard somebody laughing
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I heard somebody laughing like that and
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um I said how is that so uma look to the
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left and um I didn't see anybody
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Ola look to the right and uma the horse
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did not see anybody
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Ola looked up and all she saw were some
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birds flying by and then Ola looked down
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and there was a little rabbit in a hole
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looking up at Emma and laughing and uma
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said oops my friend lemongrass and the
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lemongrass was clapping like this did
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you know that's how rabbits clap can you
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guys do that okay good job you guys
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you're doing great yay and so they
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decided they're going to do it dance
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together do you want to do the dance
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with us all right let's do the dance
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this dance if you're going to do this
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dance you have to be able to balance up
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can you do that and you have to go to
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the left and you have to go to the right
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and balance okay so hopefully you can do
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this and the song it's a song and a
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dance okay so we say ye uma to the left
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and then we say run run run and then
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we're gonna balance up ye o my to the
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right and run run run and then twirl
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around so gracefully okay and twirl
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again the other leg now face me that is
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our song and that is our dance you guys
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want to do it one more time yeah because
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once you learn it it's really fun to do
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and you can do it by yourself at home
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and it's super fun for balance okay so
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we're going to put one leg up and we're
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gonna say ye uma ye uma to the left and
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then we're going to go that way and then
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we're gonna say he OMA to the right and
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we'll go that way okay so to your left
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and your right ready here we go
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one two ready go ye uma to the left
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run run run ye
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to their right runrunrun twirl around so
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gracefully twirl again now face me haha
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good job you guys okay as promised now
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we're going to do the Sun Salutation
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which means hello to the Sun hello to
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the subject you like that story about
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uma you can find the coloring page and
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you can color it and please send me a
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copy go to Quito kids York on Facebook
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and you can send me a copy I would love
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to see your copy of your picture thank
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you alright we are going to count to 12
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can you guys cap to 12 I know some
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people who are watching this can
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probably count to a thousand or some
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people watching this maybe they can only
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count to 13 or 20 I don't know all
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different kids in all different ages we
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welcome you all with love right you're
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all amazing let's say it together say I
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am awesome can you say that let's say
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together I am awesome yay okay you guys
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are awesome I love you guys did you know
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that mm-hmm
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it's true okay so let's start with the
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number one one and the number one we put
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our hands together at our heart maybe
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I'm going to stand over here so you
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could see me when I go back now you have
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to make sure there's no furniture around
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okay maybe you have a yoga mat or maybe
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you're on the carpet like me that's okay
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so this is number one our hands are here
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and then number two I'm going to reach
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up up up up up and reach up as tall as I
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can to touch the sky and then number
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three I'm going to come down like this
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mhm and I'm going to put my hands on the
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ground and wake up mr. worm okay and now
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are you ready to be a frog we are going
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to put our hands down flat and we're
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going to
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but our legs and if I was facing you it
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looks like this this was mr. Wareham
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right here
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and then my hands go down flat flat flat
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all your fingers flat and then I'm gonna
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open my legs like that yep
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now I'm a frog and frogs need to jump
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that's just how it is if you're a frog
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how high can you jump
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let's try ready froggy frog whoo that's
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number 4 4 4 frog remember for frog and
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now number 5 I'm gonna turn this way so
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you guys can see what it looks like and
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ready
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number 5 my legs are going to go back
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back back
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and I am a stick that's right my body is
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in a stick the shape of a stick and now
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I'm going to go that was number 5 I'm
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gonna go down down down down
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ooh and now it's snake what is your
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snake saying snakes a six and now we're
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gonna go up up up up up we're going to
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go up all the way to number seven and
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how old at the moon like a wolf ready oh
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I can't hear you okay say it again
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wolves are free
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okay that was seven and now show me
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number eight number eight we're going to
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do what we call downward dog that's
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right that's number eight so downward
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dog
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we're gonna run running dogs running
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dogs all right and now hello I see you I
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see you I'm upside down that was number
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eight and then number nine is a tiger
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Crouching Tiger rawr the tiger it's kind
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of like the Frog but my hands are way
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out front and my they're not hands their
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claws or are like that or are very
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fierce tiger right okay that was number
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nine and then we're gonna pump it up
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for tim-tom my feet are together not
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pump pump and I'm gonna jump I'm coming
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to the jump pop jump okay there we go
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and here we have number 10 oh I'm
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balancing I'm balancing don't fall whoa
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whoa whoa clap clap clap okay if you are
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three years old clap three times if
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you're four years old clap four times if
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you're five five times and keep going
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until you get your number okay I would
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be clapping for a long time so I'm not
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going to do my number and then I want
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you to open your hands like that see and
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we're going to spray some more rainbow
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water ready Shh all the way up spray all
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the way to the top Shh you sprayed me
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okay that's number 11 and here we go
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boom boom boom look there are 12 and
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that is our Sun Salutation in the Quito
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kids yoga and if you want to know a
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secret I'll tell you a secret on my
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website I have a deck of cards that have
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all of those together yeah the Sun
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Salutation and a lot more later we'll
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talk about that okay are you guys ready
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whoa I don't know about you but my heart
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is going boom boom boom boom boom boom
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yeah just like a drum fill your heart
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everybody feel your heart ah feels good
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right good job
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you guys are awesome you are awesome
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I really like you guys I like that
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you're watching this so cool and guess
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what it's time for time to sit back down
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ready one two three
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criss-cross applesauce dink oh I did
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that fast okay let's try that again
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let's try that again okay are you ready
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get ready
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we're gonna need criss-cross applesauce
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as fast as you can go one two this
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resembles us did you hardly fast whew I
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feel sweaty ha ha in a good way
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I love sweat all right you guys
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show me your rocks rock rock you have to
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rocks but you know how to be gentle yeah
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everybody has to rocks make a fist fist
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fist
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everybody has to rocks and they know how
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to be gentle I could hit with my rock
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but I don't want to hurt anybody so I'm
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gonna be super gentle oh gentle to
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myself hmm
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gentle to my mama James into my papa
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maybe I give them a little massage maybe
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I'll give myself a little massage yeah
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only the squishy parts that's the muscle
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yeah maybe I'll give myself a little
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massage here because mine rocks know how
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to be gentle when I'm with my friends
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I'm very gentle with my friends my rocks
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are so gentle
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isn't that wonderful your hands are like
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rocks and the rocks know how to be whoo
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so kind so gentle so we have happy hands
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happy heart and happy family so let's
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give ourselves a big hug oh yes oh yes
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and now it's almost time to say goodbye
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how do we say goodbye with Quinto kids
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yoga do you guys remember there's a yoga
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rhyme and it's the way that we say
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goodbye we say this is our house touch
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your beautiful house remember your house
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that's homemade this is our house so
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full of Sun Oh bringing all of the
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goodness and then we say hands together
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this house is fun and then we say
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namaste oh how beautiful thank you all
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that was some fun how fun does that have
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come on up because we're gonna show them
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the download right now I know that you
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worry when we're just gonna put it up
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there so they can see it because we want
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everyone to go over to once upon a story
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time got live to pick up the download
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because this is really
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cool and after you've downloaded that we
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want you to go check out Heather at her
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website I put it up earlier at Quito
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kids yoga comm go check her out over
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there she's got some amazing amazing fun
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things to do and as well you could find
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her on Facebook on Instagram and on who
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just put Quito kids yoga in there and
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you're gonna find Heather I know that
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you mentioned earlier that if they had a
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mat that you know maybe they should use
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the mat or they can be on the floor we
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have some great mats available in the
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store go check them out I love the
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different colors how fun is that Heather
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we always love having you we just love
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having you we have so much fun so guys
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you know what I appreciate you guys all
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being here as well and as you know we
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have regular show so tomorrow we are
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welcoming back best-selling author
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Barney Salzburg and he's going to be
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reading from his award-winning book
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beautiful oops
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I love it I love it I hope you'll be
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there I'm excited so I'll see you
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tomorrow