Stories of School Yoga

Stories of School Yoga

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  • Author: Andrea M. Hyde
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 1438475691
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs. The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand how yoga works and its effects on individuals, groups, and school culture. Stories of School Yoga brings together firsthand narratives by teachers and practitioners from diverse settings nationwide to illuminate the multifaceted work, challenges, and benefits of teaching yoga to K−12 students in public schools. The stories here supplement and reframe quantitative research in the field; demonstrate how yoga can mitigate stress and tension, particularly amid an increased focus on standardized curricula and testing; and offer lessons learned and practical insights into planning, implementing, and running these programs. Rich in detail and accessible to nonspecialists, Stories of School Yoga presents helpful resources and a nuanced, on-the-ground look at the yoga-in-schools movement. “Stories of School Yoga contributes to the field of school-based yoga programs by providing a much-needed counterpoint to the majority of research in this field, which tends to be quantitative in nature. The book shares the rich stories of people who are implementing yoga in schools while also providing a scientific explanation for why these stories are important/needed. The contributors do not shy away from the broader social/political issues involved in implementing yoga within the educational system—a system that has many challenges of its own. I believe this book will assist both quantitative and qualitative researchers in developing future studies of yoga in schools, as well as practitioners interested in implementing yoga in schools.” — Bethany Butzer, University of New York in Prague


Story and Stretch

Story and Stretch

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  • Author: Michel L Gribble-Dates
  • Publisher: Ombrella
  • ISBN: 9780997356007
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 102

Learn how to plan and lead Story and Stretch: Narrative Yoga for Kids classes, a body-centered life education and yoga play therapy program. Included are twelve stories with corresponding yoga poses, as well as breathing, meditation, and mindfulness exercises, yoga games, visualization prompts, discussion questionsand extension activities."


Classroom Yoga in 10 Minutes a Day

Classroom Yoga in 10 Minutes a Day

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  • Author: Giselle Shardlow
  • Publisher: Kids Yoga Stories
  • ISBN: 9781943648689
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148

Daily Yoga and Mindfulness Resources to help Kids Cope, Calm, and Connect. This yoga and mindfulness workbook is a wonderful resource to easily integrate these much-needed practices into your classroom - whether it's in-person, virtually, or a hybrid of both. And, to do so within just 10 minutes a day! The ready-to-use workbook contain everything you need to do yoga in just 10 minutes a day for 16 weeks of the school year. It's super easy to use. Yoga for just 10 minutes a day can: * Provide you with a simple go-to resource that will help address the #1 issue upon returning to school... children's social-emotional wellbeing! * Ensure you have a regular tool each day to help your students breathe, calm down, and self-regulate... even when schedules are packed and unpredictable or learning is partially/fully at a distance. * Teach children simple self-regulation and resiliency skills daily that you can easily incorporate into any classroom... without having to plan, think about it, or find new resources. * Help children regulate their bodies and emotions... that way, they can manage the ups and downs that come with changes in the classroom, an unusual start to the school year, and the potential lack of a regular school routine. * Provide fun, active indoor and outdoor activities that will keep your kids moving and having fun... even if they're asked to keep their distance from one another or you have limited space. * Introduce movement activities in a fun, simple, and light-hearted way in the classroom ... to get their wiggles out and help them focus on the next task at hand. * Encourage healthy interactions and connections between children through group activities... even if children are asked to keep their distance from one another. You will receive specific activities for each day of the week, themed under: Mindful Mondays: to get grounded for the week ahead through breathing and meditation techniques that teach kids how to be in the present moment Twisty Tuesdays: to become more body aware by trying new exercises and yoga poses that allow for exploration and promote positivity Wind-Down Wednesdays: to practice calming techniques that promote self-regulation and focus through age-appropriate mindfulness activities Theme Thursdays: to move, stretch, and challenge young bodies by practicing yoga poses based on fun and engaging themes Fun Fridays: to have fun and connect with one another through yoga games and partner yoga (when possible) Daily 10-minute yoga and mindfulness activity * 16 weeks of themes to explore and discuss * Colorful resources that's engaging and interactive * Detailed instructions and helpful tips to best bring this resource to your students * 134 colorful pages to explore This resource is intended for children in preschool through elementary, but it can be adapted for other age groups. Use these 10-minute activities as a springboard. Feel free to add other age-appropriate theme-related yoga poses, songs, breathing techniques, relaxation stories, meditations, art projects, and field trips.


The Great Little Book of Yoga Stories

The Great Little Book of Yoga Stories

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  • Author: Tessa Hillman
  • Publisher: Sifipublishing
  • ISBN: 9781910088661
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

The Great Little Book of Yoga Stories offers a lively way of discovering yoga philosophy; it is for yoga teachers, their classes and young people too. It is a new look at old wisdom; an easy first step on the road to 'enlightenment', or understanding what life is really about.


Classroom Yoga Breaks: Brief Exercises to Create Calm

Classroom Yoga Breaks: Brief Exercises to Create Calm

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  • Author: Louise Goldberg
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393710963
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Easy and brief ways to incorporate yoga techniques in the classroom. Stress is everywhere in kids’ lives and impacts their well-being at home and school. Exercise is known to reduce stress, yet students have never been more sedentary. And teachers have little time to add yet something else into the school day. Enter Louise Goldberg and Classroom Yoga Breaks. In this essential book, readers will find a comprehensive guide to incorporating short yoga breaks into their classrooms. Teachers will learn how to promote movement, learning readiness, attention skills, cooperative community, and self-regulation—all in just a few minutes a day. Goldberg’s evidence-based principles of “Creative Relaxation”—creating a peaceful environment where students feel safe, engaged, successful, and independent, promoting empathy and mutual respect—lead the way toward successful use of yoga in the classroom. The book includes a step-by-step curriculum for integrating yoga breaks into the classroom and over 200 illustrated exercises—enough to incorporate one every day of the school year. Twelve units are arranged by theme, with lessons consisting of one- to five-minute exercises, that can be done from the seat or standing. Each unit includes topics for discussion or writing, movement, breathing exercises, focusing activities, relaxation techniques, mindful practices, and self-calming skills. Yoga is a complement to social and emotional learning, mindfulness training, and physical education. It can help address bullying behaviors, students with autism and special needs, and promote overall resilience and executive function. With this book in hand, readers can integrate these fun, relaxing, and healthy breaks into the daily lives of their students and themselves.


The Story of Yoga

The Story of Yoga

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  • Author: Alistair Shearer
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 1787383725
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern West? This comprehensive history sets yoga in its global cultural context for the first time. It leads us on a fascinating journey across the world, from arcane religious rituals and medieval body-magic, through muscular Christianity and the British Raj, to the Indian nationalist movement and the arrival of yoga in the twentieth-century West. We discover how the practice reached its present-day ubiquity and how it became embedded in powerful social currents shaping the world's future, such as feminism, digital media, celebrity culture, the stress pandemic and the quest for an authentic identity in the face of unprecedented change. Shearer's revealing history boasts a colorful cast of characters past and present, who tell an engaging tale of scholars and scandal, science and spirit, wisdom and waywardness. This is the untold story of yoga, warts and all.


A Children's Yoga Journey

A Children's Yoga Journey

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  • Author: Dawn Britsky
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781634494823
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Children love to sing songs, to hear stories and to learn while moving their bodies. A Children's Yoga Journey was created for children by children. During my several years of teaching yoga at a Montessori school, we started each session with a story time upon which this book is based. Yoga was integrated into daily lessons, beginning with the basics. The main characters in this book are: Cat, Cow and Cobra. They are searching for their friend Down Dog. Each class we added new poses - which involved songs that are also found in these pages. This book is the guide used to meet the beginning yoga needs of children, and the journey was created for them to explore movement and their light that comes from within.


Stories That Come Alive Through Yoga

Stories That Come Alive Through Yoga

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  • Author: Renee Sherkness
  • Publisher: CreateSpace
  • ISBN: 9781461150589
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 70

Stories That Come Alive Through Yoga is a fun, informative, and entertaining, instructional book for children and adults to experience yoga. It was created as a way to express to parents, grandparents, teachers and fitness instructors, or anyone for that matter new or old to yoga, who interacts with children ages 4 to 11 years old, how to share the experience of yoga with their child/children. It is a tool to assist adults to connect with the children they interact with in a fun and healthy way. This book can help adults much like all of us, who have become bogged down with the mundane in life, to enter a child's world for the purpose of both adult and child experiencing a happier, healthier, and more balanced life. The "gift" shared is one that is fun and entertaining and certain to become a memory children and their parents will cherish for a long, long time. If I had to convey the essence of this book in a few words, those words would be: stories that nurture the mind, the body and the spirit. Check out website for complete "Nurturing Nature" Collection and programs to extend your reading experience: http: //reneesherkness.webs.com/


From the Heart of the Lotus

From the Heart of the Lotus

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  • Author: Swami Kripalu
  • Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
  • ISBN: 097668439X
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 315

Over one hundred short stories from the East to inspire and instruct. Excellent for Buddhists and Yogis.


Pop Culture Yoga

Pop Culture Yoga

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  • Author: Kristen C Blinne
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 1498584381
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 330

Pop Culture Yoga: A Communication Remix was born out of a series of questions about the paradoxical nature of yoga: How do individuals and groups define yoga? What does it mean to "practice yoga", and what does this practice involve? What are some of the most important principles, guidelines, or philosophical tenets of yoga that shape people's definitions and practices? Who has the power and authority to define yoga? What are the limits, if any, of shared definitions of yoga? Kristen C. Blinne explores the myriad ways "yoga" is communicatively constructed and defined in and through popular culture in the United States. In doing so, Blinne offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, illuminating how individuals' and groups' words and actions represent practices of claiming--part of a complex communicative process centered around membership categorization--based on a range of authenticity discourses. Employing popular culture writing styles, Blinne ultimately contends that the majority of yoga styles practiced in the United States are remixes that can be classified as pop culture yoga, a distinct way of understanding this complex phenomenon.