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St. Judes Academy Nov. 23rd, After School Yoga

Monday, December 16, 2013

Yoga Reward, Yoga Match and Forts (Dec. 9th and 11th)

Announcing, Yoga Reward sheets,  a visual guide to help our young yogis, motivate themselves to continue to develop on their yoga journey.  I have shared it with the kids in class this week, and they will be sharing these with you after class on an ongoing basis.  

This week, we engaged the imagination of our younger group by using the Book, Hello Red Fox.  We also used this book to practice our breath work and build focus through breathing.  I love using this book as it not only lends itself to fun yoga poses, but also presents an amazing opportunity to mindfully breathe.  

The kids imagined themselves to be a fox, butterfly, cat bird and fish, and together, we hissed like snakes, flapped our wings, wagged our tails, purred like cats while holding various poses.   Here are some pictures of our little fishes:


 We also challenged ourselves to hold some of the more familiar poses such as dog and snake for more than 2 breath cycles, take a look at their reward sheet to see how they are progressing:)  We are using animal buddies during our relaxation to help us find calm and peace.  Feel free to send in their favorite plushie to be used during relaxation.

The older kids, continue to practice their sun salutation flow, while learning some new poses.  This week we played a fun Yoga match game and learned new poses while building our attention skills.

Victory Pose
Boat pose
What a Happy Turtle!
Making a bridge for Mr. Dino!
Making a bridge for Yoga Star!
Inspiring Turtle pose!
Relaxed Turtle!
Strong Bridge!






Another strong Bridge


We ended our class with Relaxation, where our young super heroes used their imagination and build amazing forts as their retreat centers:)  Thank you David for inspiring us to build these!





Suggested Activity:  Build a place in your house that you can use to relax and find peace as a family.  Imagination is your only limit, but building forts/palaces out of pillows, and sheets is a great place to start!  Call it your family retreat center and unwind and breathe and relax.  With the holidays approaching treat yourself to some peace and quiet!

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