Instructor: Ruth Haske

Community: Kindergarten Ages, School Setting, 45 minutes

Plan Creation Date: August 12, 2015

Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness

Lesson Plan:

Calm

  • Belly Breathing – with one student leading with Hoberman sphere and another counting off a selected number of breaths (up to 10). Focus on pause (stillness) at end of each inhalation & exhalation. Show your king or queen self. Ask for compliments for the leader & counter.
  • Belly Breathing – on your back – use calm breathing to make the lake inside you really still. Play sleeping lions. Share how the game found.
  • Pulse Count – still lying on backs count pulse f or 30 seconds. Review how the game changed your pulse.
  • Leg Extensions – make large circles with one leg in the air. Slowly reduce the size of the circle until it is tiny. Repeat with the other leg. How did that feel?

Activate

  • Rock & Roll – explore the difference between active movement & stillness.
  • Boat Pose Challenge – have a child lead the boat pose challenge. Invite compliments for the leader.
  • Activate/Relax Game – when do you have to be still in different games?
  • Volcano Breath – lead the group in a few breaths. When could this type of exercise be helpful in our lives?
  • Mountain Pose – lasers to the sky and roots to the ground. Feel that stillness and strength.
  • Forward Bend – take a few breaths to quiet your body down.
  • Warrior – be a strong warrior, as still and as quiet as can be for count of 5. Why would a warrior need to be still?
  • Downward Dog – hold still and strong for the count of 5.
  • Plank – hold your body as strong and straight as you can for 5.
  • Cobra – stay still in the grass, come up and hiss & return to the grass (x 3). Why would a snake need to be still in the grass?
  • Downward Dog – hold still and strong for the count of 5.
  • Chair – hold still and strong for the count of 5.
  • Mountain – lasers to the sky and roots to the ground. Feel that stillness and strength.

Calm

  • Relaxation Story – Have them imagine themselves sitting by a very still lake. A momma deer and her baby come to the lake for a drink of water. You have to be very still so you don’t scare them away. Watch the mommy and baby deer as they drink water from the lake, then slowly walk back into the woods.

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