Om A Little Teapot...

For stressed-out kids, yoga offers the road to inner peace. For their parents, any sort of peace is nice

If you could be any butterfly, which butterfly would you be? That's the existential question facing Camille Faucheux, 3, as she sits on her purple exercise mat. She assumes the butterfly pose--knees splayed, the soles of her feet touching. "Hold on to your butterfly wings," Jodi Komitor instructs her Saturday-morning class of mothers and toddlers in New York City. Camille clutches her toes and prepares for flight. Komitor continues: "Lean back, open your butterfly wings and whee!" Her students flap their legs in the fantastical studio, where paper flowers seem to grow out of the bubblegum-pink ceiling. "I'm flying to a...

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