Instructor: Laura Buske
Community: Grade 2, School Setting, 30 minutes
Plan Creation Date: June 17, 2015
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness
Lesson Plan:
Calm
- Chime
- Belly Breathing – seated with the Hoberman Sphere. Breath in when I open the sphere breath out when I close the sphere.
Activate
- Child’s Pose – stretch your body.
- Down Dog – fold your body over in a “V”
- Forward Bend – touch the earth and pull your hands to your hips and your arms come back. Stand
- Roots – Plant your feet to the earth. Begin to bend side the side, forward and backward. Come to center. Move your body in a circle, bring that circle smaller and smaller. Come to center.
- Eagle – Plant your feet to the earth. Stand up straight with your legs hip with apart. Swing your arms; hug your shoulders with the right arm under your left. You can stay here or go all the way up to crossing your hands. Put a slight bend in your knee and cross your right leg over your left. Kickstand your foot. Release and repeat on the other side.
- Pulse Count – Draw your hand down from the side of your lip to your neck. Pause there.
- Forward Bend – bend your body over and touch the earth.
- Down Dog – invert your body into a “V” shape.
- Child’s Pose – stretch out your arms to the earth. Breath.
Calm
- Pulse Count – Draw your hand down from the side of your lip to your neck. Pause there.
- Mindful Moments Card – Stillness: “Imagine yourself lying outside on a warm summer night. You have a soft cushion underneath you and you are with a good friend. Look up at the night sky and see all the stars. What shapes do you see? Can you find the Big Dipper?