When teaching yoga to children you always need a number of yoga games at your disposal. Freeze Dance/Statues is a quick and easy one to use at the beginning or end of class. It helps kids to break free of constraints and let their inhibitions go. Integrating music into the yoga classroom is most natural. Choose music to correspond to the class theme or just something fun and upbeat. This activity will really get the heart rate up and increase the positive energy in the room. Kids LOVE playing Freeze Dance/Statues so be sure to pull this one out of your instuctor’s bag o’ tricks often.

Freeze Dance/Statues

Begin by reviewing a few suggested yoga poses. Mountain, Warrior, Eagle, Tree, Dancer, and other standing and balance poses work especially well with this activity as they are easy poses to assume when dancing around a room. Next turn on some music. Fun, up-tempo tunes work best. While the music plays everyone freestyle dances around the room. When the music stops everyone must freeze in a yoga pose…become a statue.

The teacher can then go around and provide adjustments or give suggestions on how to better perform the pose. Be sure to only do one or two students at a time as its hard to hold some poses for a long time, especially for kids who really want to be dancing. I generally praise creative poses or ones that are a little more difficult. Also one rule we follow is that you can’t do the same pose twice in a row – that’s the reason for reviewing a variety of poses at the beginning.

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