Discover how to give a fabulous foot massage to keep your tootsies looking their best for summer sandals. Its always a treat to give someone you love a foot massage. This video demonstrates how to use two simple, environmentally friendly products, which can be made at home. The lavender foot scrub is ideal to exfoliate, soften and calm, while the peppermint foot balm will cool, soothe and nourish. As well you’ll learn basic foot massage techniques including reflexology to improve function of the internal organs, eyes, ears and pituitary gland. You’ll finish by engaging the joy & laughter of youth with a classic foot rhyme. Try it and enjoy spending summer with gorgeous feet and a smile on your face.

Lavender Foot Scrub

1/4 c Sea Salt/Epsom Salt

2 Tbsp oil (any vegetable oil will do)

1/8 c baking soda

3-4 drops of lavender essential oil

Peppermint Foot Balm

1/4 c shea butter

2 Tbsp coconut oil

2 Tbsp olive oil

1/2 oz piece of beeswax grated

10 drops peppermint essential oil

1 person likes this post.

Unlike

Discover how to take a basic yoga tree pose (vrksasana) and make it into something playful, creative and interesting. From tree pose with namaste hands to tricky tree and beyond you’re sure to find inspiration for your next kids yoga class in Ten Trees. All these versions of tree pose build balance, focus and concentration while increasing creativity, poise and grace. And best of all they’re FUN!

Which is your fave?

How many varieties can you come up with?

1 person likes this post.

Unlike

Flower pose is a fun individual or group pose which resembles a flower blooming. This pose builds core strength, develops coordination, teaches body awareness and improves balance. It’s an ideal pose for spring or whenever you teach a garden theme.

Flower Pose

Hi yogis, this is Donna from Yogainmyschool.com. Today we’re here to teach you how to do a really fun pose for spring: Flower Pose. Alea is with me to demonstrate.

First thing you need to do is put the soles of your feet together in baddha konanasa (bound angle pose). From there put your hands on your feet and sit up nice and tall.

Next, place your hands underneath your ankles. At this point a lot of kids will try and do it this way. So you need to make sure that their hands are underneath their ankles.

And then…you lift up and off. Make sure you are lifting your heart to the sky just like a flower opening under the gentle rays of the sun.

You can make this into a partner pose or a group pose by being close enough and maybe at a little bit of an angle to one another, often done in a circle with an entire group. Again, knees are wide, hands go under, lifting off. And then grasping hands with the people beside you.

And that’s flower pose.

For more videos and ideas on teaching yoga to kids please visit Yogainmyschool.com. Have a wonderful day. Namaste.

For more yoga poses for kids visit Yogainmyschool.com’s Alphabetical List of Poses.

photo courtesy of Mountain Mom Report

2 people like this post.

Unlike

Yogainmyschool.com presents a mindful listening game which promotes conscious awareness of sounds, improves listening skills and is ideal for the Easter season. Using a variety of commonly found items inside plastic Easter eggs students play with sound, finding the matching egg which ‘sounds right.’ This game encourages children to listen attentively and effectively in order to discern subtle variations in sounds.

Sounds Right

Hello, this is Donna Freeman, the founder of Yogainmyschool.com. Today I’m going to show you how to play the mindfulness game Sounds Right. It is a fantastic game, especially for the Easter season, that’s why we have a dozen large eggs. Inside, however, when you open it up there are a dozen plastic Easter eggs.

You’ll want six different items and a matching six. For example inside we have salt, lentils, rice, beans, buttons and paperclips.

The goal here is that they are mixed up. The child or the student needs to match up one with the other. When they find two that sound the same they have a match.

Sounds Right is a fantastic game for developing mindfulness, for sensory integration for children with special needs, and it is ideal for the Easter Season.

Enjoy Sounds Right this Easter with your students. You can find a host of other fun yoga and mindfulness games at Yogainmyschool.com.

Thank-you.

3 people like this post.

Unlike

Welcome to Yogainmyschool.com. Today we are going to learn how to do a forward bend that helps to energize the body, calm the mind, and improve circulation and flexibility.

Jillian is here to demonstrate. First she is going to reach way up on a big inhale, and exhale she is going to flop all the way down with her knees slightly bent and her arms are going to go up behind. Inhale reach all the way backup. Exhale come down again. Perfect.

Now we are going to get Jillian to turn to her side so that you can see it from a different angle. She is going to do this 10 times in a row in quite quick succession inhaling and exhaling at her own pace.

This is a great exercise. It…

• teaches how to move with the breath
• teaches how to take complete inhales and exhales
• improves flexibility in the back body while being a soft exercises, available to all
• helps to improve brain function - stimulates the proprioceptors through movement

For more information about yoga in classrooms and yoga for kids and teens please visit Yogainmyschool.com. Namaste.

Be sure to visit Yoga In My School TV on YouTube for more great videos on teaching yoga to kids.

Like

Unlike

In this video we demonstrate how to teach three bug yoga poses: butterfly pose, dead bug pose and spider pose. This is a fun activity for children who are interested in the outdoors and the many creepy crawlies found there. It is also an ideal way to incorporate yoga into the science curriculum or a unit on insects and engage kinaesthetic learning.

Bug Yoga

Preschool children love bugs. So today we are going to learn how to do some Bug Yoga. I’ve got Garner and Marcus here to help me.

The first pose we are going to do is butterfly pose. This pose stimulates the heart and stretches the thighs. You can tell the differences between a butterfly and a moth by the directions that their wings stay when they are at rest.

The second pose that we are going to do is dead bug pose. This is a great activity to open the hips and build listening skills.

The third bug pose that we are going to do today is spider pose. Sitting in row like a train while in easy pose we are going to sing the song Itsy Bitsy Spider. Switch places and sing various versions of the song. For example: The Edmonton Spider.

The Edmonton spider went up the water spout

Down came the snow and froze the spider out

Out came the sun and it didn’t do a thing

So the Edmonton spider stayed frozen until spring.

I hope you have enjoyed Bug Yoga today. The next time that you are out walking and your kids are totally engrossed in the creepy crawlies across the sidewalk make sure you come home and do some bug yoga and get them into their bodies, into their minds, into their spirits. For more ideas on teaching kids and teens yoga please visit http://www.yogainmyschool.com. Namaste.

What other Bug Yoga poses can you think of?

1 person likes this post.

Unlike