Instructor: Margaret Askelsen
Community: Grades 6-8, School Setting, 30 minutes
Plan Creation Date: July 4, 2015
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness
Lesson Plan:
Calm
- Belly Breathing – with Hoberman Sphere: 10 breaths, Lights turned low – Soft, soothing music, Hold completely still for 10 seconds
- Pulse Count
Activate
- Cat/Cow – Get on hands and knees…Do cat/cow….do 10 times
- Plank
- Downward Dog – Stretch back into downward dog/ Walk feet forward
- Forward Fold
- Mountain Pose – stand in/ Roots growing into ground…connected to roots of others who are strong in stillness
- Forward Fold
- Plank – Step back into plank
- Downward Dog – Back to downward dog/ walk feet forward
- Mountain Pose/Roots – growing and connecting to the calmest and quietest trees outside
- Forward Fold
- Plank – Back to plank
- Downward Dog – walk feet forward
- Mountain Pose – Close eyes and imagine the strength of a mountain
- Cat/Cow – Down to floor for cat / cow….repeat 10 times
- Child’s Pose
- Twist – Lie on back
Calm
- Corpse Pose
- Progressive Relaxation – Holding completely still for 10 seconds – Progressive relaxation/ repeated, Repeat….Holding completely still for 30 seconds, Soft voice…..Taking a mental vacation- imagine yourself sitting by quiet stream, wind softly blowing in your hair, sitting on a rock, watching water float gently over the rocks/ Imagine the most beautiful color of blue…feel it embrace you with its warmth/ Feel it holding you quiet and still.