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Angel Wings Breath
As we celebrate Magical Creatures in our classes this week, the children are learning how to breathe with their angel wings.
Starting in a seated position on your knees, take a breath in as you extend your arms up like wings. Breathe out as your wings come down to your sides. Repeat. If you fly your wings faster, your breath must go faster..if you fly your wings slower, your breath goes slower..Cas use scarves in hands to make it even more fun!!
Yoga Numbers
This weeks classes are participating in yoga numbers and having fun with number poses and breathing and relaxation techniques.Try counting to yourself as you take a breath in, hold it for the same length and exhale to the same count. Little ones can do this to 3. Older children can do it to 10 or more..
Visualizations
We implement visualizing in every yoga class whether we are teaching under 5 year olds, school aged or teen.
Anyone can visualize (picture something in your head).
What is visualizing? Simply close your eyes and picture something, anything.. from a peaceful place, to a friend that you have fun with, to your favorite dessert, to a car of your dreams you may want, to a passing grade on a test...the ideas are limitless...
If you can visualize it, you can live it!! Namaste', Visualize it today!!
Bee Breath
Sit comfortably.
Place your pointer fingers in each ear.
Breathe in your nose. On the exhale, hummmmmm.
Repeat..
Bee Breathing is beneficial to a child as it helps them to self regulate, self control and boosts their immune system.
Buzzzz...........
Back to Back breathing
Back to back breathing
Sit back to back with a friend and close your eyes. Can you feel their breath? Put your hand on your heart and breathe in and out. Can you feel their heartbeat?
Beanie Baby yoga breathing
Kids Yoga fun with beanie babies
How many of us have a beanie baby or two in our home or in our children's toy piles? These stuffed friends are a great tool to use for meditating/breathing with. Simply place one on your child's belly while they lay on their back. Another can be placed over their eyes. Have your child breathe in and out allowing their beanie buddy to rise and fall with their breath. Do for several minutes.
Angel Wings Breath
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This weeks classes are celebrating Magical Creatures. Angel Wings breathing is a very easy skill children of all ages can learn to focus and control their breathing. Simply have your child sitting on their knees or standing up with their arms starting out at their sides. Slowly raise arms up like wings as you breathe in. When hands almost touch have your child lower them back down to their sides and breathe out. Making wings..As the wings go faster, the breath is faster. When the wings go slower, the breath is slower..Wings go up and down...
(pictured above is our founder Doreen with Lisa Ann who owns a wonderful healing and angel shop: |
Alphabet Yoga
Alphabet Yoga
Our back to school pose of the week lets your little yogi form their body into a letter. How many letters can your little yogi form with their body?
A-B-S Breathing
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A-B-C / Alphabet Breathing
Our back to school breath is very simple. Breathe in, breathe out and say "A", Breathe in, breathe out and say "B", breathe in, breathe out and say "C"...your child can do as many letters as he/she feels comfortable going up to..
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Back to school meditation
With schools starting back up this week and next week, children will be experiencing many different feelings. Their nervous system will be on high alert and their behaviors and sleep patterns may change. Taking just a few minutes each morning and evening to have your child sit comfotably in a quiet/calm space with their eyes closed and soft music playing can help to calm and regulate their nervous system.
Blanket swings
Blanket swinging:
During classes this week we are celebrating the snow melting in our backyards and offering blanket or parachute swings to all children under 5 with the help of all teachers and parents on site. Try this at home with your little yogi's for balance, coordination and strength. Have your little one lay down across a folded blanket as you and a friend grab the ends by their head and feet to gently swing and sway your little yogi..
Balloon Breathing
Children love visuals and a balloon is an easy visual that you can blow up and delfate during this breath.
Have your child sit crossed legged holding their belly. As they breathe in, the ballon grows, as they breathe out, the balloon deflates. Repeat several times until your child feels calmer or have even more ballon fun and have your child rise as the balloon inflates, holding the air in until they can't hold it any longer and as the ballon deflates, letting the air out, having your child lower down back to the floor..repeat..
Beanie Baby Breathing
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Stuffed Animal Breathing:
An easy but effective use of a small stuffed animal (ie: beanie baby) is to place it on the belly of a child resting on their back. Tell them to close their eyes and feel their stuffed friend rise and fall with their breath. Focus only on the stuffed animal as they breathe in and out.. |
"I am Happy, I am good"
Yoga Chant:
"I am Happy, I am good"
This is the time of year when children are asked if they have been naughty or nice. We prefer to build a child's self esteem up and this chant is a wonderful way to do so:
Chant without instructions on hand placement:
"I am happy, I am good. I am Happy, I am good. Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Ji. Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Ji. Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Ji. Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Ji."
Help with sounds: Sat( Sot) Nam (Nam like in Viet"nam"), Wahe (Wah-hey), Guru(goo roo), Ji (Gee)
Chant with instructions on hand placement:
"I am Happy, I am good. I am Happy, I am good" (with arms at their sides, elbows bent, hands in the peace sign going up and down slightly)
"Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Ji.(with hands in prayer pose(palms touching) have hands in front of lower abdomen on first Sat Nam, then in front of the heart on the 2nd Sat Nam, then in front of the forehead (3rd eye) on the last Sat Nam. Raise arms overhead on the Ji) Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Ji". (roll hands from lower abdomen up during Wahe Guru's to end on Ji)
"Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Sat Nam, Ji. Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Ji".(repeat hands rolling)
Repeat from I am Happy, I am good as many times as needed for the child to feel confident.
Breath for Breast Health
Yoga breath for breast health
Many of us remember Tarzan when he would beat his chest and call out "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". In honor of all the women touched by breast cancer you can modify this by breathing in and when you breath out gently beat around your breasts. You can howl or call out like Tarzan did. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Let's beat this disease....
ABC Breathing
Yoga breath for the week:
ABC breath: With the start of school it is a perfect time to use ABC breathing. Have your child inhale and on the exhale say "A", then inhale and the next exhale say "B", then inhale and exhale to "C" and continue as far as your child would like to go in the alphabet or knows the letters. Older children can do silently or even in an alternate language.
Back to School Tools
Back to School can be a stressful time for a child. They may have anxiety or nervousness about new teachers, new classrooms, or new schools.
Breathing techniques and visualizations,(pictures in their minds) can help alleviate their stress during this time.
If a child takes a bus or car ride to school, have them close their eyes for a few minutes and imagine breathing in peace and breathing out tension...breathing in happiness, breathing out sadness...breathing in new opportunities, breathing out the past...what else would they like to breathe in or breathe out?
For very young students, have them imagine in their heads what their classroom will look like, feel like, friends they will make, fun things they will do..
Namaste`, Have a Great Back to School Day!!
Breathing techniques and visualizations,(pictures in their minds) can help alleviate their stress during this time.
If a child takes a bus or car ride to school, have them close their eyes for a few minutes and imagine breathing in peace and breathing out tension...breathing in happiness, breathing out sadness...breathing in new opportunities, breathing out the past...what else would they like to breathe in or breathe out?
For very young students, have them imagine in their heads what their classroom will look like, feel like, friends they will make, fun things they will do..
Namaste`, Have a Great Back to School Day!!