Instructor: Piper Paulish Community: Grade 2 Classroom Plan Creation Date: March 31, 2009 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Listening Lesson Plan: Stillness – Belly Breathing with the Hoberman Sphere. Watch as your classmate gently draws the sphere in and out, in and out like the balloon you inflate in your belly as you inhale and deflate as you exhale. Grounding –…
Instructor: Piper Paulish Community: Grade 2 Classroom Plan Creation Date: April 8, 2009 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Listening Lesson Plan: Stillness – Belly Breathing. Listen to your breath inside your body, concentrate on feeling it move in and out your nose, down your throat, into your belly and then into your chest. Strength and Grounding – Yoga pose flow: Begin…
Instructor: Piper Paulish Community: Grade 2 Classroom Plan Creation Date: May 1, 2009 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Community Lesson Plan: Stillness – Volcano Breath. Pretend you are a volcano breath in and the lava flows upward, breath out and the lava spills outward onto the earth. Now pretend you are surrounded my other volcanos doing the same thing. You are…
Instructor: Piper Paulish Community: Grade 2 Classroom Plan Creation Date: December 17, 2008 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness Lesson Plan: Stillness – Pulse Count for a count of 30 seconds. Share your motor speeds. Belly Breathing with the Hoberman sphere. Strength, Listening, Community – Archetype Game. Review rules and growing five different teacher specified archetypes, freezing, then moving with the music…
Instructor: Nicole Amuzu Community: Pre-K Plan Creation Date: May 30, 2011 Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing: Lie on your back feeling the weight of your body on the floor. Make all of your limbs heavy, your head, back, arms and legs. Imagine you are a really heavy rock that sinks deep into the ground. Activate…
Instructor: Nicole Amuzu Community: Pre-K Plan Creation Date: May 30, 2011 Principle/Lesson Goal: Stillness Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing: With the Hoberman Sphere; give me 10 deep breaths. Close your eyes and use all of your senses to feel the stillness for 30 seconds. Activate Child: Move into child pose and notice how still and calm our bodies can…
Instructor: Nicole Amuzu Community: Pre-K Plan Creation Date: May 30, 2011 Principle/Lesson Goal: Listening Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing: (With Hoberman Sphere) Listen to the rhythm of our breath as we do 10 counts with the sphere. Imagine your breath as the waves of the ocean and listen to them move in and out. Pinwheel Breath: Practice spinning the pinwheel…
Instructor: Nicole Amuzu Community: Pre-K Plan Creation Date: May 30, 2011 Principle/Lesson Goal: Community Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing with the Hoberman Sphere: Sit in a circle and have students pass the sphere around after two breaths. Those who don’t have the sphere can use their fingers as an imaginary sphere and breathe all together as a group. Activate…
Instructor: Susan Jepson-DeResta Community: Grades 4 & 5 Gutsy Girls/Guys Group Plan Creation Date: May 31, 2011 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Community Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing: with Hoberman sphere (student-led). Activate Activate/Relax: Play music that is soothing but lively. Have the children walk to the beat; stop the music when it is time to activate.…
Instructor: Susan Jepson-DeResta Community: Grades 4-5 Boys ADHD Group Plan Creation Date: May 31, 2011 Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding – Staying Grounded In Challenging Times Lesson Plan: Calm Belly Breathing with Hoberman sphere (student-led). Pinwheel Breath with pinwheels. Focus on gently spinning the pinwheel for 10 seconds. Activate Pinwheel Breathing while walking in tempo to music. Pinwheel Breathing…