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Instructor: Tanya Beard

Community: Preschool Ages, School Setting?, 30 minutes

Plan Creation Date: May 1, 2015

Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Community

Lesson Plan:

Calm

  • Read Lynea’s book Good People Everywhere – OR Short intro – Community is around you; a collection of people who work together. Can be a family, neighborhood, city. Here at school, we are a community – we are all together here. Have you ever felt sad if one of your friends is having a bad time? Distracted if someone is being silly? We are affected by each other deeply. It is a good thing to know! Let’s do our yoga today, with special attention to the idea that we are all doing it together.
  • Volcano Breaths – with heart thoughts (pg 97)

Activate

  • River Song Pose Flow (modified for preschoolers – I’m working with age 2 up to 4):
    • Rock and Roll F/B Rock and Roll S/S Boat
    • Star/Hug x 5 (w or w/out twinkle twinkle song)
    • Mt Test
    • Mt – Up Mt – Forw Bend – Down Dog / Wag, pant – Cobra / Stretch your neck forward pushing through the grass – Down Dog – Walk feet up Up Mt – Hands to Heart
    • Warrior R – Warrior L – Mt – Up Mt
    • Forw Bend – Down Dog – Cobra – Child’s Pose
  • Star Circle/Galaxy – could add faces component (close eyes, make funny face, open and look around; close eyes, make sad face, open and look around; etc)

Calm

  • Yoga Flow – Hands to heart; upward mountain; forward bend – head heavy like a bowling ball; down dog; plank; cobra; child’s pose. Choose comfortable position.
  • Peace Spray
  • Brief Children’s Meditation (OR read Lynea’s book if didn’t at calm/intro)May I be free from suffering. May I be free from anger. May I be cured from illnesses. May I be free from fear. May I be free from hatred. May I reach peace and tranquility. May my parent/guardian be free from suffering. May they be free from anger. May they be cured from illnesses. May they be free from fear. May they be free from hatred. May they reach peace and tranquility. May (my teachers, relatives, friends, enemies, all living beings – child to pick) be free from suffering…

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