When teaching children yoga you always need a number of yoga games at your disposal. This one is particularly useful because it can be used at the beginning or end of a yoga session, or developed into an entire class. It is also useful as a language arts tool to discuss opposites. Journaling about how the various poses generate different feelings and reactions can prove especially insightful.
Opposites
Have students come into a familiar pose. Then ask them to practice the ‘opposite’ pose.
Don’t tell them what the opposite pose is but instead invite them to make a pose that seems to have an opposite quality. You may find that students may flip a pose upside down, turn an active pose into a passive pose, or perform an actual yoga counter pose.
Be prepared for interesting personal interpretation. Performing 4-6 poses in a row in this manner is a great exercise and really gets the creative juices flowing.
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This was so very amazing! My kids loved doing this and although I need to move the furniture a little further out of the way, it was a lot of fun.