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14 Feb 2014

Surrender to Love Yoga Playlist

My Valentine’s Gift to you:

May you SURRENDER to LOVE…and let it FLOW.

This flowing yoga playlist is sure to open your heart and soul to LOVE…

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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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Building Snowman GROUP POSE (children in CHILD’S POSE for base, some kneeling and making BALLOON BELLY BREATHS and the rest standing with arms outstretched in a circle around them)

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

Sledding on our YOGA MAT SLEDS

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

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

we put our gloves on (pretend to put gloves on hands)
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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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25 Nov 2013

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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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SUN (Sun Saluatations), TREE, FLOWER, RABBIT, TABLE, RAINBOW, DOG, MOUNTAIN.

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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They lifted their leaves above their heads, even on their heads and then made some branches with their arms and then let the leaves fall to the ground. So many creative ideas to f=do with the leaves…

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?

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

24 Oct 2013

Halloween Monster Yoga

With Halloween coming up next week, I planned a fun Monster Yoga lesson for the kids.

I found the cutest Sesame Street video on YouTube called Belly Breathe by Common & Colbie Caillat

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It’s a monster who is angry
It’s a monster who feels bad.
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Next we did a Skeleton Warmup, where I went around the circle and asked each child what part of their skeleton body they wanted to warm up. There was some head shaking, toe wiggling, arm raising, foot stomping with lots of laughter and fun going on!

I read them an adorable book called Where’s My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi, which is about a little mummy who plays “Hide & Shriek” with his Mama Mummy and then he can’t find her.

The Baby Mummy sets out to find his MUMMY and meets lots of friendly monsters along the way, like BONES, GLOB and DRAC the VAMPIRE, but he is not scared, her keeps looking for his MUMMY. The book has lots of fun actions that the children can pretend to do along with the mummy and the other monsters, like TROMPING, BRUSHING your teeth, WIGGLING your head and FLAPPING your wings. Of course, there are lots of other animals and yoga poses in the book, like FROG, TREE, BAT, and MOUSE too, so we got lots of yoga in too! The book was perfect for the Halloween season and the children enjoyed the sound effects and illustrations in the book, as they waited for me to turn the page to see what happened next!

Stay tuned for another fun Halloween lesson plan next week…

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

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.

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