The Ashram to offer parenting program
2020 In the News
MARYVILLE, Mo. — The Ashram, a wellness spa in Maryville, is preparing to offer a new peaceful parenting program to the community early next year.
Owned by Lindsay Sheley, the spa focuses on a variety of yoga classes, red light and halotherapy and mindfulness programs. Over the past year, Sheley has been working on her certification for the studio’s Happy Harbor Parenting program from the Jai Institute for Parenting.
Sheley said one of the reasons she decided to get certified by the Jai Institute for Parenting is because of the shift in birthing, parenting and schooling she’s noticed recently.
“Whether that’s our eating, our physical health, how we are treating one another, it’s just different.” Sheley said. “I think that that’s what makes this also really exciting, bringing this kind of program to the community, because not only is it kind of shaking things up just a little bit, but it’s providing evidence-based material, evidence-based and scientific-based knowledge behind what we know now about how children are developing and growing.”
Peaceful parenting is about shifting the relationship parents have with their children to better understand the child’s needs and wants, to help turn conflict into cooperation, and misunderstandings and hurt to connection and love, according to Sheley and the Jai Institute’s website.
“Once we give children what they need and what they desire — safety, love, support, our ears — they’re naturally going to give us what we need,” Sheley said.
She said some of the key elements touched on in the peaceful parenting program are communication techniques, taking responsibility for one’s actions and breaking old habits like yelling and threats.
The Ashram’s Happy Harbor Parenting program has four-, six-, eight- and 12-week programs that families can participate in.
Sheley highly encourages that two-parent households have both parents participate in the program to ensure both parents are on the same page. Sheley said she is also hoping to expand the program to educators as well.
For more information on the peaceful parenting program, those interested can check out The Ashram’s website, theashram.me.
