10 Oct 2013
Peaceful Piggy Meditation
PEACEFUL PIGGY sits on his meditation cushion and BREATHES…
One of my favorite yoga books is called PEACEFUL PIGGY MEDITATION!
Continuing with the theme of Meditation and Mindfulness, last week I brought in my PIGGY puppet and he read the book Peaceful Piggy Meditation by Kerry MacLean to the children! We started with a discussion about all the ways we had been learning about how to calm our “busy” minds. These are some of the responses I received when I asked them “So, what can we do to quiet our busy, busy minds?”:
“We can do our Balloon Breath”
“We can chant OMs”
We can be QUIET and listen”
“We can do yoga”
It was amazing to hear all the great responses they came up with and to see that they really made the connection between yoga and breathing and being quiet and peaceful inside.
I also brought in a meditation jar I had made with some glitter, water and a bit of blue food coloring. I had the children gather around in a circle on their bellies to watch, then I shook the jar vigorously and placed it on the floor. I explained that the glitter in the jar was like all the thoughts going around in our head. I asked them to watch was happening to the pieces of glitter in the jar. They told me they were falling and down down and how they stopped moving. I told them that as the pieces were settling down, the water was becoming clear and still, just like our minds when we do our meditation and quiet time.
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The kids LOVED it and wanted me to shake it again and again and were so focused on watching the glitter swirling around then settling down. It really helped them to understand the idea of how our thoughts can become STILL like the water in the jar when we do our breathing and meditation. To make your own meditation jar, click HERE.
Then we did some yoga poses of animals and objects we found in the book. In the book, Piggy says: “it can be hard not to lose your temper when you’re angry” so I passed the PIGGY puppet around and asked each child to share what makes them angry and upset. Children are not often given a safe place to express what makes the upset or angry, so I wanted to give them a place to be heard in this way with acceptance and love.
After they shared their frustrations, I let them know it was ok to get angry and a good thing to do when we are feeling angry or upset is BREATHE! I taught them the LION’s BREATH, where they make an angry scrunched up face and then take a deep breath in and stick their tongues out and say “AHHHH” when they breath out! They all loved it and started laughing.
Peaceful Piggy Meditation helps teach kids that they can find their own PEACEFUL PLACE INSIDE through meditation.
For more Yoga Lesson Ideas on Meditation, see my previous posts:
Teaching Children About Meditation
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22 Oct 2013
Yoga Dance
After a month of Meditation and Mindfulness lessons, I wanted to treat my little yogis to a month of Imagination and Play!
Music and Dance are both good for the soul and music is always a big hit in my yoga classes~ so I decided to do a lesson where this kids could express themselves to music while doing yoga too! Thanks to Angela’s wonderful review on OMazing Kids, I came across an awesome Kids Yoga CD called OMWORK by Kidding Around Yoga.
There are some really fun yoga dance and movement songs/games on the CD like Hip Hop Yoga Bop, which is a lot like a YOGA FREEZE DANCE. The children free dance to a funky upbeat song and when the music stops, I call out a yoga pose and we all FREEZE in that pose! The song even has a little rap with some positive messages about doing yoga:
If you wanna feel good and you wanna be strong, then do your yoga all day long…Breathe, Stretch and Meditate…Be peaceful and be really kind…You’re focused, kind and loving, it’s amazing what yoga brings to you…you see everything in a whole new light…remember to practice every day…
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The last song I used was If Your’e Happy and You Know It because it is a popular kids song that all kids love and it includes a sequence of posers that lead right into Savasana. I began by singing the original chorus of the song with the children, We sang and clapped our hands and then I told them we were going to hear a new song and learn some new yoga poses too! The children loved learning some new poses, like Rag Doll and Forward Bend. Then the song leads perfectly into quiet time:
If your’e happy and you know it, take a rest…
The OM WORK CD also has two soothing relaxation songs, one called Garden Dreams is instrumental and has flute and nature sounds, so I played this in the background as I guided them through a visualization of being in their own beautiful garden and engaged all their sense by asking what they see see and hear and feel there.
When they came out of their meditation, we sang a closing song and then I asked the children to share about what they saw in their “garden“. I got some beautiful responses, like they were planting in their garden, flowers, bunnies and fairies. Some children were more descriptive and it was amazing to hear that they had a positive experience during Savasana.