Instructor: Jeff Albin Plan Creation Date: February 2, 2009 Community: Classroom, Grades 3-4 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding Stillness: Mountain pose with hands at heart center. You are an ancient mountain anchored deep in the earth. Your breath moves like the pulse and heartbeat of the earth. Long deep and slow like someone sleeping. There is no…
Instructor: Laura Barbour Class: Grades 3-4, Classroom or Small Group Plan Creation Date: April 24, 2009 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Strength Lesson Plan: Center Pinwheel Breath: Practice Belly Breathing with Hoberman Sphere, inhaling and exhaling slowly. Now, with a small pinwheel in your hand, purse lips as if whistling and blow your breath out to spin the pinwheel. See how slowly…
Instructor: Jeff Albin Plan Creation Date: February 2, 2009 Community: Classroom, Grades 5-6 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Community Introduction: Calm: Class seated on knees or cross legged. Pulse Count. Check numbers. Hoberman sphere breathing x10. Repeat pulse count. Ask for changes. Warmup: Rock x5 slowing down a little each time until you are lying flat on…
Instructor: Bijoli Biswas Class: Morning Focus Group, 30-40 Minutes Community: Mixed ages, Grades K-5 Plan Creation Date: April 15, 2010 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness Lesson Plan: Calm • Belly Breathing: Lying on backs, breathe into belly, focus on breath, eyes closed to calm and prepare for class. Focus your attention on how completely still your body can be except…
Instructor: Bijoli Biswas Class: Morning Focus Group, 30 Minutes Community: Mixed ages, Grades 1-5 Plan Creation Date: April 15, 2010 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding Lesson Plan: Calm • Belly Breathing: Lying on backs, breath into belly, focus on breath, eyes closed to calm and prepare for class. Place flat stone on belly and notice the movement up and down. Imagine being part…
Instructor: Bijoli Biswas Class: Morning Focus Group, 30-40 Minutes Community: Mixed ages, Grades 1-5 Plan Creation Date: April 15, 2010 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Strength Lesson Plan: Calm • Volcano Breath & Arm Swings: Choose a student to lead Volcano Breath. Next do Breath with Arm Swings from standing turn palms outward and raise arms out and to the side then overhead,…
Instructor: Chris Schirber Plan Creation Date: 1/6/10 Community: 5th Grade Class Principle 3: Grounding Beginning Relaxation (2-5 mins): Back breathing. Feel the support of the ground underneath you. Let any unnecessary tension go. May I feel my connection to the earth today. May I be grateful for all it gives me. May I feel its support underneath me and…
Instructor: Chris Schirber Plan Creation Date: 1/6/10 Community: 5th Grade Class Principle 4: Strength Beginning Relaxation (few mins): Tension relaxation exercise. See the difference between tension (strength) and relaxation. See that use of one leads to the other. I am grateful for my strength. May I use my strength for the benefit of all. Postures: Mountain:…
Instructor: Chris Schirber Plan Creation Date: 1/6/10 Community: 5th Grade Class Principle 5: Community Beginning Relaxation (few mins): Volcano Breath, in which students silently draw in a sense of support from their community with the in breath and send out positive messages to others in their classroom with the out breath. Postures (10-15 minutes): Activate/Relax Walk: Respect each other’s…
Instructor: Wendy Handrich Plan Creation Date: July 21, 2010 Community: Classroom, Ages 8-12 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness Calm Belly Breathing using Hoberman sphere for ten breaths with one student using the Hoberman and another student counting off the selected number of breaths. Compliments Pulse Count and/or Stillness for 15 seconds Read Aloud: The Quiet Book by Deborah…