Section outline
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- What are mindfulness and yoga?
- Introduction to the five elements and foundational activities.
- Share guidelines for participation.
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- Create opportunities for children to notice sensation in their bodies in various poses.
- Review what yoga and mindfulness mean.
- Increase self-awareness in relation to physical sensations.
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- Identify how changing the breath can impact feeling and experience.
- Introduction to the language of the protective brain/thoughtful brain.
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- Introduction to the importance of self-compassion.
- Build on self-awareness practices.
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- Increase awareness of thoughts and emotions.
- Build on self-compassion practices.
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- Notice and name how grounding practices affect the body, mind, and emotions.
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- Practice expansive movement and power poses, and help students identify how they feel during these activities.