Yogainmyschool.com is thrilled to offer three downloadable kids yoga classes. Family Time, Man on the Moon and Tour of India are fun, engaging and a great way to teach yoga to children. Expert in yoga for children and teens, Donna Freeman leads these 30 minute classes and is joined by young yogis who demonstrate real kids practicing yoga, making the videos easy use at home or in the classroom.

Based on stories found in Once Upon a Pose, these classes reinforce themes taught in school, involve children physically, mentally and emotionally in the learning process, reduce stress through movement, breathing and relaxation, and improve mental and physical health and well-being.

Available for download in both PC and MAC formats, these videos are now available for the introductory price of only US$9.99 each.

Visit the Yogainmyschool.com Store for details/to purchase.

Practicing yoga with kids has never been easier!

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Breathing with pursed lips is an effective breathing technique for asthmatics as it focuses on extending the exhale making it long and slow. Using a glass of milk and a straw as a learning tool, this breathing technique will teach kids how to lengthen the exhale, fully emptying the lungs in a slow, controlled manner.

Breathing with Pursed Lips

Breathing with pursed lips is a fantatic exercise for asthmatics who sometimes need to be able to regulate their exhales. This exercise focuses on the exhale, making it long and soft.

Greer is going to help me demonstrate how to breathe with pursed lips. What you do is you inhale and exhale, like you’re blowing out a candle. Can you do that again? You want to make your exhale as long and slow as possible.

A really good learning tool to do this is a glass of milk and a straw. So the goal here is to blow bubbles in the milk but try to keep them small and soft. Nice and steady. 

There we go, look at all those steady, long bubbles. Perfect. That’s exactly how you do it.If you can maybe fill the whole glass with little bubbles then you are doing this really, really well. And that’s how you breathe with pursed lips.

For more information on yoga exercises that help children visit yogainmyschool.com.

A complete listing of pranayama exercises for kids can be found on the Breathing Exercises Page.

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Mindfulness Reduces Emotional Reactivity

One of the key benefits to mindfulness is that it reduces emotional reactivity and creates a calmer mental and emotional environment. This particular technique helps individuals to recognize and regulate their emotions more effectively. Learning emotional regulation skills is essential to avoiding social anxiety disorders which researchers are finding have an onset age as early as 10, 11 and 12 years old. Conditions such as depression, substance abuse and other anxiety disorders can be avoided by learning to recognize and regulate negative emotions and prevent downward spirals.

Changing Channels

Have you ever felt sad, anxious, worried, afraid? We all have. Children also experience these negative feelings and often they don’t know how to deal with them.

Today I’m going to teach you a simple mindfulness technique that can change these negative feelings into positive ones, so that children are empowered to feel what they want to feel. And that they know that they can change negative feelings into positive ones simply by using their mind.

This technique is extremely effective with children because it talks about changing their own personal TV Channel with simply the click of their remote.

What are some of your favourite TV shows?

I like Wizards of Waverly Place because it’s different, it’s funny and it has to d0 with magic.

I also enjoy iCarly because its funny and it’s all about friendship which me and her are, and I like the idea of a web-show.

So there are certain feelings that your favourite show bring, right? Joy, enthusiasm, its fun, you feel happy watching them, right?

Now I want you tho think about some shows you don’t like.

OK, I don’t enjoy The News. Why? It’s for not me. It’s for older people who want to know about stuff. It’s kind of boring.

I don’t like Handy Manny because it’s too young for me, it’s kind of boring. I find it a little depressing

Alright. so just by thinking of those shows you feel different. When you think of your favourite show it makes you feel good. And when you think of a show you don’t like it kind of makes you feel bad.

You can do the same thing with your own emotions. You can change your personal channels. You can feel happy or sad, grumpy or enthusiastic, worried or calm, sleepy or full of life and vigour. Exactly. And you can do that simply by changing what you are thinking about. So I’m going to show you a technique called Changing Channels.

What I want you to do is to imagine a feeling of being sad. Alright. Now by connecting your thumb to your forefinger kind of click as if you are clicking your own personal remote control and image something happy that you’ve done, or that you’ve enjoyed, or that you want to do. Whoo-hoo…Hi five! Do you see how your entire body changes just by thinking about something? Yeah.

You can choose what you want to feel. If you are experiencing something that you don’t enjoy you can change it. I want you to practice that clicking. That’s your personal remote control. You can change your channels and always make yourself feel the way that you want to feel.

This is Donna from Yogainmyschool.com. Visit the website Yogainmyschool.com for more information on yoga for kids and teens. Have a wonderful day.

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Welcome to Shark Week! Yoga for Kids

Here is a fun version of Shark Pose (Dolphin Pose) especially for kids. Once you know how to do Shark Pose combine it with a favourite camp song for an engaging kids yoga activity.

This activity develops numerous skills in children such as turn taking, language ability, musical intelligence, and kinaestetic learning. Plus it’s simply lots of fun.  And, you may find yourself unable to stop singing the song.

My favourite part is at the end when they go from the frenzy of SHARK ATTACK to the calm of Namaste.

“Hello. My name’s Donna with Yogainmyschool. Today I have three young yogis with me.

Hi, I’m Greer and I’m 6 years old.

Hi, I’m Ellie and I’m 7 years old.

Hi, I’m Alea and I’m 8 years old.

Today these young ladies are going to show us how to do Shark Attack!

Baby Shark, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Momma Shark, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Grandpa Shark, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Daddy Shark, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Shark Attack! na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

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Two notes. That’s all you need. And everyone knows they are in for Shark Pose. The Jaws Theme  Song continues to terrify and kids far and wide can’t wait to get into this basic inversion.

Shark Pose/Dolphin Pose

Hello, this is Donna from Yogainmyschool and I’m here today with Alea to show you how to do Shark Pose, known in most adult yoga classes as Dolphin Pose.

Hi, my name is Alea and I’m eight years old.

• The first thing you need to do, to do Shark Pose is come onto your hands and knees. Do you see how her hands are below her shoulders and her knees are below her hips? That’s perfect.
• The second step is to lower yourself to the ground on your elbows, intertwining your fingers.
• The third step, curl your toes under and lift your hips high in the air. Let your head hang loose. You can shake it ‘yes.’ You can shake it ‘no.’ And do you see how her body forms a triangle. That is supposed to be the fin of the shark.

Shark Pose is a really good pose for strengthening the shoulders, the chest and building stamina. After a few breaths, you can come on down, and return to sitting.

Thanks Alea for showing us how to do Shark Pose.

Visit the Alphabetical List of Yoga Poses for a complete listing of yoga poses that kids love.

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Seated Yoga Twists for Kids

Today we’re going to be doing some twists with Alea.

“Hi, my name is Alea and I’m 7 years old.”

Alea’s going to show us how to do three different twists.

The first one is a simple seated twist. You can do this sitting criss-cross like Alea is or sitting in a chair at your desk at school. It’s really good to give you more energy, to massage your internal organs, and to increase your posture and give you nice, good, solid posture.

So, to do a seated twist you are going to sit with your sitz bones nice and grounded into the ground. Then inhale and take a deep breath in. As you exhale twist to one side. Put your hand on one knee…

The second pose that is a twist for kids is called washing machine pose. This one is lots of fun. You need to cross your arms across your chest. From there you need to start making a ‘swish, swish, swish’ sound. There we go, that’s it, speed up that cycle…

The final twist we are going to do today is sometimes called deer pose because it looks like a deer bounding through the forest. To do this you are going to sit with both legs out in front to of you. Then you are going to bring one leg up. Reach your left arm behind you and your right arm reaches for the sky, twinkle those fingers…

Thanks Alea for doing some twists with us. How did those feel?

“Really good.”

Do you like twists?

“Yes.”

Thank you.

And that’s all for today from yogainmyschool.com. I hope you have enjoyed these twists and that you do them often with kids that you know. Namaste.

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