Instructor: Kelsey Lauer
Community: Ages 5-12, Yoga Studio Setting, 60 minutes
Plan Creation Date: July 24, 2016
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Community
Lesson Plan:
Calm
- Chime – have students give thumbs up when no longer hear the sound
- Belly Breathing – with hands on belly- teach students to learn to have deep belly breaths first before adding in the Hoberman Sphere, empathize the use of big inhale/exhale and feeling your hands rise in/out
- Belly Breathing with Hoberman Sphere – Have one student lead with another student counting off the selected number of breaths (3rd student picks number of breaths); have students give compliments
- Volcano Breaths – Practice these breaths to release the worries and bring in the positive, happy thoughts
Activate
- Yoga Flow – cat/cow, Downward Dog, forward fold, mountain, side stretch, bent knee standing, tree; remind students to expand hands in Downward Dog and to breathe throughout poses
- Group Games – hula hoops, circle tree- notice how you can help your friends and they can help you; notice how we can all activate our feet and hands to support each other in circle tree
- Yoga Flow – mountain, forward fold, Downward Dog, child’s pose, forward fold, knees to chest, happy baby, twist, long stretch
Calm
- Progressive Relaxation – notice how your body can squeeze all the worries and then let them float away on a soft, fluffy cloud
- Belly Breathing – with Hoberman sphere – switch what students count/demonstrate/pick number
- Chime – have students give thumbs up when no longer hear the sound