Instructor: Piper Paulish
Community: Grade 2 Classroom
Plan Creation Date: December 17, 2008
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness
Lesson Plan:
- Stillness – Pulse Count for a count of 30 seconds. Share your motor speeds. Belly Breathing with the Hoberman sphere.
- Strength, Listening, Community – Archetype Game. Review rules and growing five different teacher specified archetypes, freezing, then moving with the music like the specified archetype. Allow time for sharing how a particular archetype made you feel.
- Grounding – Chair 15, with the addition of tree pose. Concentrate on feeling grounded, or rooted foot on the floor. Shoes optional.
- Pulse count and share. Line up silently and practice pinwheel breath on your way out to recess (or into a transition). Teacher holds the pinwheel and children take turns blowing gently.