Some fun variations I've used include walking backwards, sideways, or holding tree when frozen. Kids walk around with a bean bag balanced on their head, and if it falls off they are 'frozen' in place until another child hands the bean bag back to them. After that, we went through the steps of tree pose, which led nicely into a game of bean bag tag (always a crowd favorite, despite how difficult it can sometimes be). This is a child-friendly way to introduce the proses of movements flowing into each other. I started the class with something I call 'transforming'. It was back to the drawing board for me, but luckily drawing boards can hold a lot of inspiration.
I was able to get the older children to participate early in the day, but the younger children were not interested at all once the sun came out. The expression "lead balloon" fits the students reactions to this quite well. My lesson was based around mandalas: we would make human mandalas out of our bodies, an actively that has always been very successful in the past.
#MANDALA YOGA SEQUENCE PLUS#
The children at the day camp I am teach at were exhausted from the 90 plus degree heat & wanted nothing to do with the active games I had planned, and understandably so. Several weeks ago, New York was having a heat wave.
Despite that, even the best laid plans don't always work, and factors out of my control sometimes change everything. I've found the best way to achieve this is to have a lesson plan for every class. Fun is always my goal for the children I teach yoga to.
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