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Healthy Living: Yoga for Kids

Healthy Living: Yoga for Kids. Yoga for kids. Like yoga for adults…but sillier Acting like animals or other things Example: Down dog Brings together movement, sound and poses Can be imaginative and self-interpreted. Down Dog. Benefits of yoga Children who practice yoga:.

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Healthy Living: Yoga for Kids

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  1. Healthy Living:Yoga for Kids

  2. Yoga for kids • Like yoga for adults…but sillier • Acting like animals or other things • Example: Down dog • Brings together movement, sound and poses • Can be imaginative and self-interpreted Down Dog

  3. Benefits of yoga Children who practice yoga: • Better regulate emotions • Can calm themselves better • Manage stress better • Choose better foods to eat • Engage in more physical activity • Improved self-esteem and self-confidence • Increased sense of well-being • Feel less depressed/more happy

  4. Benefits of yoga Children who practice yoga: • Feel less anxious • Improve grades (older kids) • Improve coordination, strength, flexibility and balance • Improved self-awareness • Have more pride • Improve concentration • Feel more energized/less overall fatigue

  5. New Resources • Healthy Living: Yoga for Kids poster (MP517) • $0.46 through print-on-demand • Handouts • Fact sheet (forthcoming)

  6. Let’s try some poses… • Mountain Pose

  7. Rag Doll

  8. Frog

  9. Camel Pose

  10. Plank

  11. Up Dog

  12. Down Dog

  13. Warrior I

  14. Warrior II

  15. Triangle Pose

  16. Half Moon Pose

  17. Dancer Pose

  18. Tree Pose

  19. Mountain Pose

  20. Other Poses

  21. Warrior III

  22. Birthday Candle

  23. Plow

  24. Arrow Pose

  25. Arrow Pose

  26. Bridge

  27. Extended Child’s Pose

  28. Evaluation • Behavioral Checklist (adapted from Healthy Lifestyle Choices, 5th grade) • Report to AIMS under Healthy Lifestyle Goal/Obj. • File posted in Spot (Healthy Lifestyle Choices group)

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