Meet the world's youngest female yoga instructor

Well, at just five years old, our next guest made history as the world's youngest certified female yoga instructor. And now at seven years old, she has also earned the titles of published author and international wellness ambassador. Please welcome to the couch, Guinness World Record holder, Phoenix Giselle Hicks and her mother, Sydney. Thank you both so much for coming here and being with us today. Thanks for having us. So Phoenix, tell me about this. You teach yoga. Where does one get inspired at your age to want to teach yoga? I started doing it with my mom, and then I started doing yoga with my mom, and yeah. There you go. So, Mom, you obviously, I know you're a bit into wellness as well. You know, what is it that you said, you know what, here's my daughter. She's young, but she has a special gift to her. Yeah, so I started doing prenatal yoga, and then when she was three months old, she took her first yoga class. And I have a studio back home, so she would practice with the adults. And after a while, I'm like, okay, she can really do this. And then I would let her teach, like, a few minutes. And I saw that, like, she really had a gift for teaching yoga. Now, you had to study for over 200 hours to be a yoga instructor. What has this experience been like for you? It's been amazing and, like, wow. Wow. And how about now that, I mean, you made history in the Guinness World Book of Records. What does that mean to you? What does it mean to me? Yeah. It means, like. Something pretty special. something not many other kids your age are doing at all no um mom when when she's going through this whole process like how are you finding you know a balance for being a kid and then also taking on something like this yeah balance is everything she has lots of friends we have lots of parties she's homeschooled so we get to you know like travel a lot and see the world she's in dance she's in robotics so she just has a really full life but we make sure that she prioritizes fun life. I like that. You should make sure it's always a fun life no matter what. So you also wrote a book called Breathe Here. Tell me about this book. The book helps kids release stress and calm down, even for grown-ups, kids, and everybody. What is the biggest thing that you tell somebody if they need to just kind of relax? Read my book. Breathe, right? breathing what is the trick behind breathing for you the trick is you have to breathe and close your eyes and make your shoulders fall down from your ears and close your eyes breathe in breathe out breathe in breathe out open your eyes and i hope everybody at home was doing that as well because already it's just your nervous system goes down a little bit so you teach yoga you're into robotics you wrote a book what is left For you, what's next? Be the astronaut I was not expecting that answer. Mom taking her on this next mission of an astronaut, yeah she loves it I mean she, they won first place in her robotics competition, she is like super into STEM aside from yoga, so my goal is to just immerse her in as much uh space and uh just giving her opportunities to set her up to become an astronaut, she mentioned that she has a very fun life. What is the trick for you in making sure as she's got so many different interests and accomplished so much already that you keep it fun? How, how difficult is that? Our calendar is always filled but we make sure we have time for like family time, play dates, fun nights, um yeah and she's with her friends, we homeschool with some of her friends so we just try to always, I'm always looking for something cool to do somewhere cool to go. Yeah, okay, all right Phoenix, you want to stand up and give us like a pose as we're going to go to break here? Show us your favorite pose. Tree pose. Tree pose? Foot on your ankle or you can put it on your back and put your hands to your heart. Okay, everybody at home, do the tree pose. Breathe in, breathe out with your eyes closed. It's okay if you wobble. It is okay because we all have a little wobbles in life. Thank you so much, Phoenix. Great to have you here, Sydney. Thank you so much. And again, if you want to know more about Phoenix and her journey, um there's their website right there and social media so follow along and as Phoenix told us if you want to know how to relax just get her book, read it, it's called Breathe Makia I can feel just the relaxation now, just moving through the Good Day Cafe