Instructor: Nan LeRoy
Community: Elementary Ages?, Classroom Setting?
Plan Creation Date: May 1, 2013
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness
Lesson Plan:
Calm
- Kite Mind – reach up and slowly pull in your kite mind to focus on your breath
- Belly Breathing – using Breathing ball
Activate
- Mountain pose
- Volcano Breath
- Forward Bend
- Downward Dog
- Lunge – Bent leg lunge (right leg back)
- Downward Dog
- Lunge – Bent leg lunge (left leg back)
- Forward Bend
- Roots
- Tree pose – alternate tree in the wind and then still tree
Calm
- Child pose – Back Breathing with a partner (the stillness of the breath in the back)
- Twist – with belly breathing
- Relaxation visualization – listen to your breath, relax more with each exhale, …now imagine your favorite color and picture yourself breathing that color in and out-(Stillness card) To end: let yourself be filled by that color and then surrounded by that color as you relax even more.