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25 Jun 2014

Yoga Games and an Update

It has been a while since I last posted about my kids’ yoga classes. Lots of changes in my business and news to report.

I am excited to announce that I have found an illustrator for my children’s book, which will be due out this Fall 2014. My dream of publishing a book that will touch the lives of children and families everywhere is becoming a reality and I can’t wait to step into this new role of published author/educator and share my book with children at schools, libraries, bookstores, etc!

Stay tuned…

I also want to announce that I have decided to officially move my blog to my website at www.beyogabelove.com so that I will be able to make many more resources available to my readers and kids teachers everywhere.

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I also took the Rainbow Kid’s Yoga Training a few weeks ago and it was such a fun, inspiring experience to PLAY yoga with a community of amazing teachers! I learned LOTS of new yoga games and ideas to keep my little yogis engaged and focused. I told my students that I had taken a yoga class just for kids yoga teachers and was excited to share all the fun games I learned with them!

It’s amazing how using a simple prop can transform an activity into something special! I passed my bendy flower, which I sprayed with some lavender oil, around the circle and asked each child to share what they looked forward to doing this summer. Then we all joined our friends in pretending to breathe in the scent of the flower. All the children were breathing together, as they were waiting to get to smell the flower themselves and we got a lot of Breathing in.

We began with a game I called Follow the Yogi Leader. I passed around my bendy flower again and let them know that this game required lots of focus and paying attention to the leader, as we followed every movement or pose they were doing. The kids had lots of laughs…some children made faces or danced and twirled and we followed what they did!

One of the children’s favorite new activities is so simple to set up AND the children loved it.

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I love finding new ways to use some of my props and resources in my classes!

As you can see, the children really enjoyed this activity and it was great to see them so focused on holding each pose for a while and then moving on to the next pose. All you need is a little creativity to keep finding new ways to teach yoga to kids!!

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25 Mar 2014

Sticker Yoga Fun

STICKERS ARE FUN!

I remember having a sticker collection when I was a kid and begging my mom for a pack of stickers whenever we went to the stationery store. To this day, I still love using stickers to make gift wrapping and card giving special.

That’s why one of my favorite (and most inexpensive) props for my yoga classes are stickers.

They come in a variety of shapes and characters…and kids love ’em!! You can use stickers to teach any yoga theme …

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Stickers are also great for special occasions like Valentine’s Day, Easter or Christmas and make an extra special treat for the kids to take something home from yoga class!

The best part about stickers is that you find them at your local Dollar Store or Target in the seasonal or stationery aisle. Here are some I found at Dollar Tree for Valentine’s Day!

Stickers make for a super easy lesson plan because each child gets to choose their favorite sticker and lead the class in the yoga pose. Sometimes they even get to make up their own poses for animals that are not a yoga pose and that is sure to bring lots of laughs!

Part of the fun of teaching yoga is remembering the simple things that put a smile on a child’s face.

By: beyogabelove Category: Children, Creativity, Fun, Inspiration, Kids Yoga, Props, Teaching, Theme Classes, Yoga

8 Feb 2014

Sleep Big Bear Yoga

Winter lesson plans would not be complete without a Hibernation Theme, which is a great way to introduce the idea of the resting and stillness component of yoga to children. I found another great library book which I got to use in some of my classes last week.

SLEEP, BIG BEAR, SLEEP by Maureen Wright is an amusing tale of a bear who confuses all of Old Man Winter’s warnings to go to sleep with some silly mixed up instructions, like Drive a Jeep, Dive Deep, Climb a Mountain Steep…which takes him on a wild and wacky adventure!

There are lots of yoga poses and fun movements in the book, including:

BUMBLE BEE BREATH

RABBIT POSE

RIDING A JEEP

SWEEPING THE HOUSE
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Of course the best part of the book is when the bear finally hears Old Man Winter yell

“IT’S WINTERTIME, NOW GO TO BED!“

This is also the perfect lead in to SAVASANA, where the children got to experience some quiet time to rest their bodies and minds like the bear. To ease them out of relaxation time, I asked children to give themselves a BIG BEAR HUG while turning over to come into fetal position.

The book was a big hit with the kids and we all had lots of laughs and yoga fun!

By: beyogabelove Category: Books, Children, Creativity, Fun, Kids Yoga, Meditation, Nature, Teaching, Theme Classes, Yoga

23 Jan 2014

Peace Begins Inside

In honor of Martin Luther King’s Birthday, this week’s theme in my classes was PEACE.

I have been meaning to try one on Todd Parr’s books in my classes and found this awesome one called The Peace Book.

The colorful, quirky illustrations really capture the spirit of diversity and each page has a positive message about the many ways we can create PEACE in the world.

We began with a discussion about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The children shared about his “dream” for all people to get along and be nice to each other. I explained that we could help this dream of peace come true by finding that peaceful place INSIDE through our yoga, OMs, breathing and meditation.

The book has lots of YOGA POSES:
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We swam like Sharks and Fish, splashed with our Elephant trunks, slithered around like Snakes, barked in Downward, Upward and 3 Legged Dog, turned into a Buttefly (caterpillar), stretched out while Painting the Sky, offered a HUG to a friend and more… It was so cute to see the children expressing their love for one another.

The message at the end is that each one of us can help make the world a better place!

After SAVASANA, I played Elizabeth Mitchell’s Peace Like a River, which is a catchy, beautiful song that can be done with actions for younger children (see video below). For the last verse, we all held hands and made a CIRCLE of PEACE. I let them know that we can share the PEACE we have insdie with everyone around us and create PEACE in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6N4E1tLLg

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18 Jan 2014

A Perfect SNOWY Day!

We has some more Snowy Yoga Fun with this great book A Perfect Day by Carin Berger.

On another trip to my local library (where I have been spending some time perusing the children’s books like I used to as a child), I discovered this great book to use in my classes this week. It never ceases to amaze me how a simple book can turn my yoga classes into a magical field trip to wild and wonderful places! Children just love it when they get to go out on a winter adventure even in the warmth & coziness of their own classroom…

We started class with a Winter’s Breath…I asked the children to take a deep breath in and place their hands out in front of their faces so they could feel the warm air as they exhaled. Then we did a cute SNOWFLAKE MOVEMENT warm-up where we pretended to move and twirl and fall like snowflakes to the ground to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star which can be found on the Intellidancing Youtube page.

The illustrations in A Perfect Day have a vintage collage and playful feel to them and the kids loved all the fun winter activities and yoga poses we got to explore together.

Here are just some of the fun YOGA POSES and MOVEMENTS they loved:

TREE

MOUNTAIN

Skiing in CHAIR

DOWNWARD DOG and UPWARD DOG

Snowball Fight

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Snow Fort (children lined up in two rows with arms outstretched to make a ROOFTOP while one child went inside FORT)

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Snow Angels (Movement then RECLINING STAR POSE)

Lanterns (CANDLE)

Warm Hugs (Give yourself a HUG)

Hot Chocolate (Stirring with ARM CIRCLES)

CRESCENT MOON

SAVASANA

Then I played some soothing music and did a guided visualization which they really enjoyed. Even a snowy day can be an opportunity to take kids on a magical yoga journey!

By: beyogabelove Category: Books, Children, Creativity, Fun, Inspiration, Kids Yoga, Nature, Teaching, Theme Classes, Yoga

3 Jan 2014

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12 Dec 2013

Winter Yoga Fun!

BRRRRRRR…it’s cold out there and now that we’ve had our first snowfall, I wanted to treat my students to some WINTER YOGA FUN!

I usually buy my books, but I decided to brave the cold, so I made it out to my local library and found the perfect book for this week’s lesson: WHEN WINTER COMES by Nancy Van Laan.

For CIRCLE TIME, each child shared what they love about WINTER and what they like to do in the wintertime. Then we did a cute warm-up that was a variation of the HOKEY POKEY, but instead we called it the WINTER POKEY!! (You can find the lyrics here or just have the kids make up what they want to put on.)

I told them that we needed to get dressed for the cold weather and asked “What could we wear?”

They all chimed in with their ideas and one by one we warmed up our body parts!

We put our gloves in

we take our gloves out

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We do the WINTER POKEY and we turn ourselves around

That’s what it’s all about!

After putting on our snow boots, coats, scarves, etc, some of my students even came up with silly ideas like being a REINDEER, putting antlers on, RUDOLPH (putting a red nose on) and SANTA (putting a beard on). I am always inspired by my kid’s imaginations, we laughed twirled around and had so much fun!

Then we had yoga story time. When Winter Comes is such a great book to teach kids about what happens to the natural world, the trees and flowers and animals too. After our Fun AUTUMN LEAVES LESSON last month, it was especially nice that the book started with the leaves falling to the ground…

It is full of poses: they pretended to be a TREE and the leaves falling to the ground, FLOWER wilting and then growing, crawling around like a CATERPILLAR going into its COCOON and turning into BUTTERFLY in Spring, Field MOUSE burrowing in a tunnel underground, FISH swimming to the bottom of a pond, DOG and ends with a child snuggled up warm in bed, which is the perfect prompt for Relaxation time.

I played a beautiful lullaby called If You Listen by Elizabeth Mitchell for the younger children and made up a guided visualization for the older ones. Maybe it’s because we tend to be more tired in the winter, but I was so happy to see my classes resting quietly and enjoying the stillness during SAVASANA.

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21 Nov 2013

Teaching Kids about Being Thankful

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.

What’s better than expressing our gratitude for all that we have in our lives and sharing time with our family and loved ones?

This week, we explored the theme of Gratitude and Being Thankful in my yoga classes. We began with a discussion of what Thanksgiving means and each child got to share one thing that they are thankful for. I let the children know that we don’t have to wait until Thanksgiving to be thankful, we can be Thankful every day!

P.K. Hallinan’s book I’m Thankful Each Day was the perfect book to engage my little yogis in the many things we can be thankful for. In the book, a boy describes all the blessings in his life, from the sun to the rain, to the trees and the love of his family and friends.

There are so many great YOGA POSES in this book:

The book begins with the boy looking up at the clouds and then the night sky and being thankful for the STARS in the sky. For Star Pose, we all stood up stretching out our “star points” and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

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We also had fun making the sound of RAIN with our fingertips and then making it louder and even making thunder by clapping our hands and slowing down to tiny raindrops again. Creative movement is a great way to keep children’s attention and allows them to use their imagination!

At the end of class, we colored some Turkey Mandalas. I explained that a MANDALA is a special kind of art that is used by people from all around the world and that it helps us to focus and connect when we are coloring just like MEDITATION.

I brought in a book of Native American Mandalas. I explained how the Native American mandalas show how much they respected Nature and how much they were thankful for all that the Earth provided for them. I told them that mandalas are shaped like a circle which is like the circle of life and how we are all connected in life.

Then I handed out the mandalas and some crayons and asked them to color quietly and think about what they are thankful for. I played some soothing flute music and the children spent some time very focused on coloring, some even drew their own Mandalas on the back of the their paper. For SAVASANA, they were all lying down and looking at their Mandalas, it was adorable!

It’s never to early to teach a child to BE THANKFUL and recognize all the gifts their lives!

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14 Nov 2013

Leaves are Falling!

I LOVE AUTUMN.

It’s my favorite season…the leaves changing colors and falling to the ground, the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves, and of course stomping or rolling around in the leaves…it makes me feel like a kid again!

Now that the foliage is at its peak, I wanted to do a lesson on LEAVES with the children. I found this book in my home library and never really thought about using it before until I opened it and realized how many animal poses were in the book, I love it when that happens!

I also brought in some real maple leaves to use for breathing and creative movement.

After our OMs, I introduced the theme by asking the children what season it was. When they all answered FALL, I asked them ” What is so special about this season? They all replied…“the leaves change colors and are falling!” Then I passed out the leaves to the children.

“We are going to use our leaves for our breathing today.”

I instructed them to place the leaves in front of their faces and begin breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly through their mouths “CHOO” like in our TRAIN BREATH . I asked them to notice what happens to their leaf with each breath. This was a wonderful way to reinforce mindfulness, as they were very focused on their leaves, observing it and its movement.

Then we had some fun and each child gave ideas for other ways to make our leaves move.

They blew on the leaves, they twirled their leaves, they shook their leaves like it was a windy day.

Then I asked them where leaves came from and we did TREE POSE.
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Then we read the book and did our yoga poses: BUTTERFLY, MOUSE, COW, FROG, LION, BIRD, TURTLE, PEACOCK and more!

The illustrations in the book are beautiful and show the many ways to make art with leaves!

There is also a page of all the shapes and colors or leaves, so it’s also a great way to reinforce these concepts with preschoolers. They even had fun “seeing” different shapes in the leaves, like an umbrella, a mitten, a star, a surfboard!

For SAVASANA, I had them place their maple leaves over their eyes, like an eye mask, they fit perfectly!

I told them a guided visualization about being outdoors in the cool, autumn air, watching the beautiful colors of the leaves and seeing them falling to the ground…

I am always amazed how a simple prop in yoga, especially one that costs nothing and can be found everywhere can transform yoga into a magical experience for children!

A child’s imagination is ripe with possibilities…what can you use in your classes to make learning yoga FUN?

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