19 Mar 2013
Partner Yoga Fun
This is a repost of a prior blog entry because my Partner Yoga poses have been quite popular.
Here are some great ideas here for doing Partner Yoga with kids, tweens and teens. Enjoy!!
My niece has been doing yoga with her Auntie B (me) since she was a baby and is familiar with many of the kids’s versions of the poses. Now that she is older, she has been more open to learning new poses and has even come to a yoga class with me.
The other night, my niece and I decided to do some yoga.
We set up our yoga mats in the living room and I had brought my Yoga Pretzel Deck which has lots of fun yoga activities for kids of all ages. She looked through the cards and was immediately drawn to the Partner Poses, so she pulled out the cards and we gave them a try.
We started with Partner Warrior and then moved on to some sitting poses like See Saw and Partner Boat. We had quite a few laughs trying to lift our legs up at the same time because my niece has extraordinarily long legs for a 12 year old! We tried every single one of the partner poses, some more than once.
Our favorites were Double Downward Dog and Lizard on a Rock, where one person rests in Child’s Pose (the “Rock”) and the other (the “Lizard” lays on their back…what an amazing back stretch! And from the smile on her face, it’s easy to see how much she liked this pose.
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We had a hard time (and non-stop amusement) trying to get up off the floor from sitting back to back in Partner Chair, but my niece would not give up. She was determined to figure out how we could lift each other up and we almost got up, but it didn’t happen. We really enjoyed some flying poses where we lifted each other up in the air!
Partner yoga is such a wonderful bonding experience for children and adults alike…it involves supporting your partner, helping each other stretch and looking at each other while in the pose. It was so much fun doing yoga together and hearing the sound of my niece’s laughter!
21 Mar 2013
The Light Inside-Teaching Kids About Spirituality
As a yoga teacher, part of my job is guiding my students to find their own light.
How do you teach a young child about spirituality? Children may not understand the concept of a “soul”, but they do understand the idea of a LIGHT inside or the LOVE in their heart.
Over the past few months, my yoga lessons have revolved around finding PEACE inside or how we can express the LOVE in our hearts. The children have been learning how they calm their bodies and their minds through yoga, breathing and meditation. The other day, I asked my classes if they knew why we chant OMs before yoga, and they responded “to find peace”. It’s moments like these that make me love teaching!
Children are always learning…absorbing everything they see, hear and feel.
They relate what they learn to their inner experience. Teaching a child to pay attention to their breath, tune into their feelings, and listen with their heart will help them develop a strong connection to themselves and the world around them. This builds their sense of trust in themselves and self confidence. We may think they are too young to understand but they “get it”.
The greatest lesson you can teach young children is to LISTEN to their inner voice.
It’s not often that children get to just “be” and relax. At the end of every class,they lie down in Savasana or
DO NOTHING DOLL…Nothing to think, Nothing to Do, Doing Nothing is Good for You.
While my students are resting in Savasana, with their eyes closed, I tell them a “story”, a guided visualization where they are lying on a beach or going on a cloud ride in the sky. I ask them if they can try to be so still, so quiet that they can hear the sound of their own breathing. I tell them to breathe in that calm feeling from the top of their heads to their tip toes. It may take weeks or even months before they can lie down without wiggling around or talking, but eventually they can and even enjoy it. I let them know that no matter what, they can find that quiet place inside where they can always go when they are feeling sad or upset.
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I usually end my yoga classes with a soothing song, either Kira Wiley’s Namaste Song or Snatam Kaur’s Longtime Sun. I explain that just like the sun, we each have a LIGHT inside us and to remember to let it SHINE. When I look around our circle and see their blissful faces, I know that they are IN that peaceful place, shining their light!
I leave you with this beautiful blessing. May your own light guide you on your path so that you may find your peace. Namaste.
May the longtime sun
Shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on
~ Celctic Blessing