If you want to fully engage children in the overall practice of yoga, Go Go Yoga for Kids: Games & Activities will help you successfully merge the life lessons that can be learned from play with the lifelong benefits of yoga. By using the games, activities, and suggestions included in this book, you will find that incorporating breathwork, yoga pose review and mindfulness in these fun and active ways will help children learn while they play. This winning combination is perfect for kids yoga classes, schools, camps, clubs, and home.
Go Go Yoga for Kids: Games & Activities Includes:
- Over 150 yoga games, activities, poses and challenges broken into categories and easily modified
- Detailed descriptions for all activities including suggested age groups, needed props, ideal group size, and leader notes
- Suggestions for organizing engaging kids yoga classes and incorporating games
- Benefits children can receive from yoga, games, teamwork, and mindfulness
- Characteristics of age groups and the types of games that best fit each level of maturity
- Ways to incorporate challenges for older kids
- Teaching tips for tweens and teens
- Breathing exercises for relaxation, mindfulness and stress reduction
- Secrets to successfully teach yoga to children
- Ideas for yoga-inspired crafts that can be used both inside and outside of class
- Ways to incorporate yoga into family time
- Game and yoga pose illustrations
- Downloadable yoga pose memory game
In an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, Go Go Yoga for Kids: Games & Activities is a complete resource that details everything you will need to help you successfully teach yoga to kids of all ages and inspire them in life-long healthy ways.
Spis treści
Preface 1
Introduction 4
Why Kids Need Games 7
Characteristics of Age Groups 10
How to Plan and Sequence a Kids Yoga Class 14
Get to Know You Games 19
Breathing Exercises for Children 23
Active Movement Games 29
Large Group Yoga Pose Games 40
Partner and Group Challenge Games and Activities 57
Balance Games for Children 66
Mindfulness Games for Children 71
Stillness and Savasana Games 84
How to Set Up Your Kids Yoga Classes for Success 91
Teaching Tips for Tweens and Teens 100
Family Yoga & Games 105
Yoga Crafts 110
Yoga Pose Memory Game 118
Pose Glossary 119
Index 128
O autorze
Best-selling author, Sara J. Weis, is a creative and passionate teacher who has inspired children for over twenty years. In Go Go Yoga for Kids Sara has combined her 20+ years of experience as an elementary teacher and a certified kid and adult yoga instructor to introduce children to yoga in engaging and child-friendly ways. She is passionate about helping children receive the many mental and physical benefits yoga can provide them both now and throughout their lives. Sara is the author of Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Using Yoga with Kids, Yoga Lessons for Children and the creator of the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards and the Kids Yoga Challenge App. She has also created the popular online Kids Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training which has trained thousands of others from all over the world on how to teach yoga to children.
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