4 Kid Poses for Springtime Yoga
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In kid yoga land, side-plank is often called rainbow pose. We start in plank, or kid-lizard pose, with hands under shoulders and toes curled under, like we're about to do a push up. I like to see how straight and strong kids can be in their planks and encourage some big breaths here. Rainbow practice is also a great time to introduce the chakras since they correspond with the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet.
You can weave all of these poses together into a springtime yoga class for kids, or practice one or two, in yoga class or at home. Bring in flowers, pictures of poses and their namesakes, ask kids what other poses feel like spring to them (how about Bunny Breath?) Celebrate the sun, energy and big inhale of spring!
About the Author
Om Schooled, a guide to teaching kids yoga and the forthcoming Essential Yoga, a guide for adult beginners. She has taught dozens of classes a week in NYC public and charter schools, studios and privates, working with a curriculum she created. She now leads OM Schooled teacher trainings in youth yoga. Also a creative writer, Sarah was chosen by Oprah Magazine as a Poet to Watch. She loves integrating concepts of creativity into her yoga practice/teaching and finds her writing is influenced by yoga and meditation.
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