Instructor: Sarah Parks
Community: Grade 5-6 Girls, After-Hours Class (1 hour)
Plan Creation Date: January 28, 2009
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness
Lesson Plan:
Intro Remarks: Find the stillness in our breath, poses, and selves. “I am strong, I am in control, I can do it.”
- Seated Belly Breathing Grizzly – practice stillness
- Leg Stretch
- Rock N Roll
- Boat – stillness/focus
- Roll up to Stand
- Mountain
- Up Mountain
- Forward Bend
- Bent Knee Lunge (right leg back)
- Downward Dog
- Plank
- Cobra
- Downward Dog
- Bent Knee Lunge (left leg back)
- Forward Bend
- Chair
- Up Mountain
- Mountain
GO THROUGH A FEW TIMEIKIDS LEAD/COMPLIMENTS
- Back Drawing (if time) IF NOT TIME FOR COMMUNITY do Volcano, send good thoughts
- Alternating Arm/Leg Kicks – practice stillness
- Cat/Cow
- Childs Pose
Relaxation: Changing Channels (snowball fight; swim party; cozy inside drinking cocoa and reading a book; forest walk/crossing a stream/strong person you trust to help you across; favorite place – take a snapshot; back to where we are now)
Reflections: Worked well. That was amazing!!! Timing. I wasn’t sure if we would have time for everything but it all fit really well within the hour. I could tell the girls were really working hard and trying their best.