Extend your arms in front of you and grab each other’s forearms right above the wrist.Bend your legs and plant your heels into the ground, putting your toes against each other’s.Your core will be challenged with partner Boat Pose. It’s a great idea to warm up with a few of the poses from the beginner routine before jumping in here.īe mindful to relax during these intermediate moves, as it will make the poses easier to perform and hold. Practice at circle time, transition times, waiting times so kids know the poses and can utilize them as self-regulation tools for emotional charged, stressed, or conflict times.Begin to rely more on your partner’s body in this intermediate partner yoga routine. Then do opposite arm and leg until you can lift both.Īt all levels of challenge, this pose is grounding and calming because it requires strength, coordination, and balance. Then try keeping feet down and just leaning back with no hands. Build up to full Boat Pose by keeping hands on floor behind you for support and just lifting legs. This takes core strength and may be too challenging at first. Sit, lean back, bend knees, lift feet, lift hands – balance on your sit bones. Anytime you have to balance on one foot, you have to concentrate, coordinate, and calm yourself. Hold for 3 – 5 breaths and come out gracefully. Lift arms to the sky like branches, keeping hands clasped (harder) or opening them into a V (easier). Shift your weight to one foot and press the other into your calf or inner thigh. Focus on a point at eye level, breathe, and send your energy down into the earth like you had roots. Press your hands together in front of your chest. This a tension reliever and stress buster – great for any time kids need a break, to re-group, to blow off steam, or just get present and grounded. Stretch your back and legs just like a dog. Make sure feet and hands are far enough apart that your heels don’t reach the floor. Then extend left leg back and right arm forward.įrom hands and knees, keeping arms straight, curl toes under, lift hips up and straighten legs. Breathe and reach in opposite directions while pulling belly up and keeping other arm straight. Then, focus on a point in front of you on the floor. Like a cat, enjoy stretching extend one leg back at a time like extending a tail. Cat Poseįrom hands and knees, arch and round back several times slowly. Once children are in this forward bended, inner focused pose, invite them to let the ground hold them so they can feel their belly expand against their thighs as they breath, slow their inner speed, and exhale into the earth all their wiggles, craziness, frustration, exhaustion, etc. Rest forehead on the floor or on stacked hands – palms down. 1.Child’s Pose (Renamed Rock or Mouse Pose) All of the poses below are in the Yoga Games and Activities packet. Yoga poses help children head-off the out-of-control, melt-downs before they takes over by giving them physical tools they can use to self-care. The five kids yoga poses on this list are not only for those times when it’s clear, from the emotional state your child(ren) are in, that no amount of yelling, cajoling, or threatening is going to help, but also for everyday slowing, settling, supporting, and resetting of your child’s mind-body state/nervous system. Self-regulation takes energy and if there’s none left, the nervous system literally goes into overload with all the accompanying distress behavior.Ī few basic kids yoga poses, practiced regularly with children, along with the breathing techniques, offer simple, effective actions that enable children to build self-regulation. Ever wish you had a physical activity that could help children de-stress, calm down, return to balance, find center, and get grounded? Most of the time when children are beyond their own capacity to contain and control themselves, it’s because we have let them get too tired, too dehydrated, too over-stimulated.
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