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Yoga For Kids with Heather Kamala
May 20, 2020
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here and welcome to the premiere episode
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of once upon a yoga time I am so glad
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that you joined us we have a great
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program for you today so let's jump in
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and have some fun and by the way we'd
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love to hear from you so whether you're
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here live or on replay make sure you
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comment below and say hi because we'll
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say hi back today we welcome the creator
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of Kido kids yoga Heather
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Kamala Heather has shared her love of
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movement story and art with children of
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all ages from Paris to Tokyo and Miami
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to Mexico as the daughter of an Asian
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American actor Victor wrong she was
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tutored in puppetry theater and
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storytelling and art as the director of
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her little garden kedo 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 Kido
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kids club available to all children ages
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three to nine as a digital format so
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without further ado we welcome Heather
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to the show hey Heather
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hey everybody thanks for having me here
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I am so excited about this one this is
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the first time we're doing this and I'm
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so excited that you're here with us
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Heather to kind of launch the whole Once
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Upon a yoga time so before before we
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start I want everyone to make sure you
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grab your mom and dad or whoever brought
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you and get ready to move because
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Heather is going to make sure that we
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are moving today so are you ready
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Heather yes very hot so thank you here
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we go your life all right everybody
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welcome welcome to our Quito kids yoga
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sampler so you guys are going to get a
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little bit of understanding what is
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Quito kids yoga what is the world of
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Quito kids yoga we have a lot of really
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fun characters and a lot of movements so
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let's get started we always start with a
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little bit of big movement to get our
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energy out so what we do is that we're
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going to stand just regular like a
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mountain tall I stand as a mountain and
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even I reach my arms up as the mountain
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or the tree grows taller and taller and
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then I get small very very small like a
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little tiny ball like a little leaf or
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like a seed and then I grow bigger and
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bigger and bigger and I get as big as a
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tree so here in this warm-up in this
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exercise we're going to do a lot of big
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and little and when we do big and little
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guess what happens your heart starts to
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go boom boom boom and that's what we
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want so that's how we're going to start
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you guys ready all right so let's see
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when we stand tall and the rainbow goes
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we paint it like that now let's go and
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let's get some paint get some paint on
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the ground all different colors and
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paint the rainbow as big as you want it
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all the different colors now go the
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other way grab a bunch of paint and
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paint your rainbow all stretch up oh
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yeah okay and now we're going to say I
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am big and I am small big like the tree
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and small like the seed and now let's do
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some counting
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let's count okay are you ready to count
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we're going to count from 1 to 20 and
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we're going to jump really big and
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really small are you ready ok go 1 2 3
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oh come on 5 6 7 8 9 10 are you still
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with me
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you raised with you 10 more ok let's go
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1 2 3 6 7 8 9 and 10 okay now show me
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touch your heart
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whoa is it going boom boom boom boom
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like that didn't you do the job good for
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you
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all right now today guess what you have
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a very very special special story I have
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a special story for you and we are going
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to pretend to be foxes everybody loves
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foxes and the Foxes are going to come to
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meet you
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here's one Fox well hello hello Fox so
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nice to meet you thank you for coming to
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my little once upon a yoga time today I
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really appreciate that
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and the Fox wants to meet you hello and
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now so you are going to pretend to be a
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fox and foxes first love to stretch did
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you guys know that yeah so we're going
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to sit down in a comfortable position
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one foot on the bottom one foot on top
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clap your hands and now we stop whoa
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okay feel your heart and I'm going to
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grab something really yummy Oh what is
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that a yummy stuff huh it looks like it
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might be some blueberries and foxes love
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blueberries so because I'm pretending to
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be a fox I'm gonna smell the blueberries
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ready let's smell it yeah I'm gonna
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smell it again because I'm not sure if
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it's the right kind of a very smelly can
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big one yeah and now I'm going to eat
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them
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and now foxes don't wash their hands too
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much they mostly just splash in the
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water splash question in the air dry and
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the foxes no guess what we do something
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called yoga rhymes and this is going to
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be the very first one are you guys ready
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okay all over the world kids and
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grownups oh no this rhyme we say this is
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our roof keeps us dry and warm bring
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hands together our heart is our home and
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the Fox knows that your heart is your
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home and then we bow to each other like
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this and we give each other a big hug
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and give a hug to your mama or give a
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hug to your papa or give a hug to
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anybody in your home
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and hug yourself and then open your arms
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with a big breath ah now the Fox is
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going to go on an adventure are you
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ready so we're walking walking walking
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and then now we're popping up the Fox
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wants to look and the tail is going
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swish swish swish swish swish and the
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Fox is going to give you a little bit of
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kicks kick kick watch out for your front
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of jerky good and now the Fox wants to
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hold one leg up can you put one leg up
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higher higher I don't have you're all
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good job ok let's do the other side kick
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okay kick now hold that Fox Fox Fox you
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did it Fox I think some of the Foxes
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were tricking us and they had their tail
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up in the air do you think so I don't
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know ok now we're going on an adventure
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to find more foxes and we're going
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around and around and around is that
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folks over there
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no is that box over there No welcome to
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foxes be we'll have to do some more
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looking but how we get there is we're
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going to go in our boat foxes like to go
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ro ro ro e so let's row row row our boat
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and keep looking out from lure foxes aha
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and now let's see if your boat can
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balance up can your boat balance up like
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that how about up higher oh good job row
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keep growing keep rolling your boat ha
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ha good I see when I see you box over
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there oh let's look let's walk over
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there aha it was my friend the little
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fox Wow hello ok foxes like to do a lot
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more yoga too so let's do some more yoke
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sit in your crisscross applesauce we say
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one foot on the bottom this foot on top
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and clap your
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and now we stop well if you like to do
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rhythms let's see about clap clap clap
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or clap clap clap or snap or tap that's
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the way cup of the body okay and now
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we're going to do some twisting because
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Yoga is really good twisting and Fox's
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like to twist because they're looking
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all around they're looking all around so
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we are going to get some glue first and
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we're gonna glue our seat down because
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we're going to take our hands and we're
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gonna fly all the way across to the
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other side and then we're going to twist
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all the way to the back and foxes are
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looking all around for delicious food or
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what could it be ah there's my mama Fox
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okay go over to the other side oh yeah I
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see my grandpa Fox ah wonderful and now
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come back to the front alright so we did
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some big movement and now we're doing
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some small movement and I am going to
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make a soup if my head were a spoon and
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my legs were a pot could i stir can you
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stir can you stir your soup
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oh let's stir our soup but what are the
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ingredients in your soup what kind of
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soup do foxes like hmmm do you think
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they like a little bit of salt
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choo choo choo choo choo choo choo what
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do foxes eat a lot of plants how about
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let's cut some greens and put them in
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let's gather the greens from her garden
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ready to gather gather gather gather all
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your greens now put your feet together
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and drop the greens down in your pot and
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we are going to chop them up and put
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them in the pot ah that is great and now
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let's stir the pot stir the pot oh yeah
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and now a little bit more salt little
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bit of pepper chichi and now we are
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going to stir nutritious
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dee-licious don't tip the pot oh no oh
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no watch it behind you ah my soup quick
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drink your soup ah that is some yummy
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soup that Fox is love okay put your feet
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out like this and we're going to get
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more glue we like glue here glue glue
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glue on this side glue glue glue on that
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side all right and now that my legs are
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glued together I'm gonna kick out my
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little spiders and I'm going to stop at
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my knees and then when I say go you're
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going to let your spiders run all the
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way to your toes are you ready one two
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ready go boom ha ha and if you can't
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touch your toes it's okay to bend your
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knees a little bit that's fine and then
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we are going to tickle our toes and
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tickle your neighbors toe like that and
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now wait but my legs are stuck oh well
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how am I gonna get up uh-oh I need to
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get out my choppers get on your choppers
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yeah okay now I can use my legs again uh
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everybody stand up
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now we're going to do just a little bit
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of something that's called I'm gonna
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tell you it's a secret it's called a Sun
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Salutation because we're going to say
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hello to the Sun are you ready okay
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let's do this
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and we're going to say straight I stand
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as tall as a treaty except about I kiss
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trees means you can bend your knees if
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you want to mmm and then we're going to
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roll up inch by inch were me style roll
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up damn tall like blocks stacked in a
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pile oh that's nice okay foxes are you
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ready to do some Sun Salutation we're
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gonna count to 12 and let's see if we
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can do it and even foxes like to pretend
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to be other animals sometimes did you
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guys know that yes so here we have
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number one that's hands together number
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two is
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oh very good and then number three we're
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going to keep our feet together and
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squat down oh and now we're going to
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drum to wake up the worms wait and from
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there that's number three and then
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number four is a frog we're going to put
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our hands down flat and strong and we're
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going to jump so that our feet are open
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like this ah now look like a frog ribbit
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ribbit but I'm really a Fox pretending
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to be a frog okay and stretch stretch
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stretch now frogs like to jump remember
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this is for number four so let's jump
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four times when two frogs three frogs
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four frogs very good you guys wow you're
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really good at this okay now that was
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number four and then number five is
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we're going to go back back back so I'm
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going to turn to my side so you can see
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and we're gonna go back like a stick my
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body is now a stick stick stick and
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that's number five and then number six
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is a snake show me your snakes all right
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and then number seven we're going to
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push up push up and our dogs are our
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dogs are gonna howl at the moon like a
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wolf and now come up come up come up
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until your downward dog and more dogs
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yay that's number seven and then we're
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going to pump it up for number eight and
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and hop yes and then I'm going to clap
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my hands I'm going to hold my hands
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together I'm gonna open my palms so they
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look open like that mm-hmm that's number
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nine and I'm going to go all the way up
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to the top all the way look up ten 11
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and number twelve the Mountain Pose
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again that was
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twelve numbers to do what we call the
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Sun Salutation and guess what now it's
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time for us to bring into a cool down
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because foxes get tired I don't know if
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you guys got a little bit tired but we
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are going to sit down actually let's lie
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down
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foxes sometimes fall asleep shh shh my
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Fox was snoring wake up everybody wake
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up little foxes and here you're going to
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show me again one foot on the bottom one
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foot on top clap your hands and now we
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stop I'm going to teach you one song one
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song before we finish our little class I
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know this was a very short class but we
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did have a lot of fun and we got our
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hearts going boom boom boom right yes
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and we did some deep breathing yeah
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remember those you can practice those
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even when I'm not with you all right so
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here's a song are you ready
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it's about yummy food okay and Fox is
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like all of these yummy foods just like
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kids like the yummy foods and we say
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bread cookies cakes and pie rainbow
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salad in the sky yummy food is on my
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plate
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thank you thank you food is great then
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you eat it
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okay let's sing that together one more
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time are you guys ready
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we say bread cookies cakes and pie and
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we put our hand like this and then we
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say rainbow salad in the sky and then we
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show rainbow like that okay and then we
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say yummy food Oh yummy food is on my
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plate and then we say thank you thank
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you food is great okay are you ready
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we're gonna sing it together one two
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ready
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go bread cookies cakes and pie rainbow
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salad in the sky yummy food is on my
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what that's right on my plate thank you
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thank you
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food is great yeah you guys got it okay
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you can eat ah well now that we're nice
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and full hey it's time for us to say
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goodbye and how we say goodbye is with a
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yoga rhyme we call them yoga rhymes and
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don't forget that we're gonna be back
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next week and you can see more you can
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have more fun and do more fun yoga and
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I'll keep coming back if you
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you
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hey guys I think that Heather is frozen
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over there and hopefully she'll come
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back on and join us but in the meantime
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I want to show you the special download
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that we have it is an activity sheet and
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behind this it's an activity sheet it is
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a coloring page and it has all sorts of
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questions and really cool things in in
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the in this three-page thing you can see
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you can color in it and you can do some
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activity so don't forget to go over to
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Once Upon a story time dot live and when
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you're there click on the Once Upon a
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story time it says a yoga there's a yoga
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link over there so click on Once Upon a
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yoga time and you'll be able to get that
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download and while you're there I'm
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going to suggest that you pick up a yoga
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mat because when you do yoga it's always
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more comfortable to do it on a cushy
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little mat I think she's back so we're
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gonna bring her back in here we go have
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your back but I need you to turn your
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camera back on uh-huh
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what happened to us all these little
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things that happen right there you know
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perfect I was missing you Heather I was
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nothing to you well I think I didn't
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seek I think you worried you know I was
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doing this with you over here and I'm
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out of breath I'm totally out of breath
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yeah I was showing them the activity
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sheet but in the meantime I know that we
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want to send them over to your website
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all of our viewers because you have some
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really cool things over there in
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addition to the different worksheets
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that you do you have classes that you do
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and it's Quito kids yoga calm and while
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you're there check out the essential
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oils check out all the really cool stuff
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that you have over there good stuff and
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if you happen to play on Facebook then
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go into Facebook and put it in the
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search engine go keto kit to yoga and
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you'll find Heather there if you go to
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over to Instagram Heather is also on
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Instagram so make sure you look for
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Heather there you're all over the place
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Heather and then finally go check out
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Heather
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on YouTube because Heather's on YouTube
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also very very cool so we know that
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you're gonna be coming back every single
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Wednesday and we encourage all of our
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viewers and all of our moms and dads and
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kids and grandmas and grandpas and aunts
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and uncles whoever that's there with you
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to come on back every single Wednesday
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and don't forget oh my goodness you've
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got your you've got your cut out there
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that's the Fox yeah he's cool all right
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guys we we have a lot of program that
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goes on every single week and tomorrow
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we have another author Tim Myers is
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going to be joining us and he's going to
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be reading from his book yeah bye and
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the egg pirates I can't wait to hear
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about that story I have no idea what an
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egg pirate is but I want to find out and
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on Friday we welcome our second yoga
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instructor Rachel rush she's the founder
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of mindful circle and she will be doing
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once upon a yoga time on Friday I'm
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excited how about all of you Heather
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you're gonna be back next Wednesday
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right oh yeah I'm so so so excited to do
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more yoga with all of you thank you what
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every Thursday on Facebook I'm also
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doing Alive kids yoga session with art
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and stories so don't miss that don't
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miss that and the way you'll get
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notification on that is we're gonna make
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sure that you go to quito kids yoga on
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facebook thanks thank you so much for
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joining us we'll see you next time on
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the next the next once apply to yoga see
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you later everybody bye bye everybody