LIFESTYLE AUTHOR
Rebekah Smith
PHOTOGRAPHY
An Dang
PEACE, LOVE AND LITTLE YOGIS n Yoga Peace School provides a
space for little bodies and minds to move, explore and find peace within themselves and the world.
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n Dang was enthused to hear that her daughter’s teachers noticed her heightened emotional intelligence and how it compared to other students. The reason being? Yoga. Aside from the physical benefits of developing motor skills, spatial awareness and mindfulness tactics, yoga can also enable children to identify and develop emotions through understanding empathy, compassion and kindness. For Dang, the founder and owner of Yoga Peace School in Brentwood, yoga is a lifestyle. She began the practice in 1996. Seven years later, she graduated from the University of Texas
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with a degree in architectural interior design, but she always loved working with children. When her daughter was in kindergarten, Dang was unable to find a preschool that had everything she wanted. So she incorporated her design, travel and yoga experiences to create Yoga Peace School. “This was all trial and error,” Dang says. “I was a single mom. I loved to work with kids. I was a yogi, and I was like, ‘I’m just gonna bring all this together and see how it goes.’” Dang opened the preschool in 2012 and has been changing little lives ever since. She uses her personal teaching guide, coined the Peaceful Approach to Learning™, or PAL method, to
