Instructor: Sarah Parks
Community: Grade 5-6 Boys, After-Hours Class (1 hour)
Plan Creation Date: February 3, 2009
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding
Lesson Plan:
Warm up/Community: Mat Tag
Intro Remarks, Grounding: Remember to say to self during hard poses: “I am strong, I am in control, I can do it.” Review four points on feet and hands.
Move to Mats:
- Seated belly breathing
- Rock N Roll
- Boat – grounding
Standing Pose/Flow:
- Mountain
- Up Mountain
- Forward Bend
- Bent Knee Lunge (right leg back)
- Downward Dog
- Plank (hold for a count of 10)
- Cobra
- Down Dog (hold for a count of 10)
- Bent Knee Lunge (left leg back)
- Forward Bend
- Chair
- Up Mountain
- Mountain
GO THROUGH 3 TIMES – HAVE KIDS LEAD
- Tree Circle
Transition: Volcano Breaths
Back to Mats:
- Alternating Arm/Leg Kicks
- Childs Pose
Relaxation: Boat Ride p. 136 – end with grounding images – come back to mat, feel your body on the mat grounded…
Questions/Refection, Notes from Boys Class: I wanted to put in Woodchopper but was not sure where to put it in. I did pulse count after tag to quiet things down and that worked really well. As with the girls class last week, I needed to provide a small break after our standing work before we went down to the mats again. Well, I knew it would happen sometime ….one of the boys farted where we were doing the rock n roll! I think I handled it well but it sure caused a chain reaction of giggles and fake fart noises. You gotta love 11-year-old boys!!!!