Rise and Shine Yoga

Week 6 was all about waking up both sides of our brain and getting both the right and left hemispheres to work together.  We warmed up with several "cross crawl," exercises and took a field trip to get the yoga balls from the health classroom.  We spent a few minutes bouncing on the balls to get the sillies out and then we were able to do some serious yoga work.  I've never seen Kate smile so much!! Check out the videos of us using the balls.  I was amazed at the number of people who wanted to have their faces "smushed!"  EVERYONE commented on how relaxing the ball rolling/deep pressure exercise was.  We started our week with good positive energy.

Warmups

Relaxing with the ball

Deep Pressure

   

Rise and Shine Yoga

Sophie and Mae in "Double Dog."

We've been having lots of fun the last few weeks at yoga club.  We have done partner yoga, the train game and this week we even did a set inspired by Opening Day of baseball season. Everyone gave the "Double Dog," pose a try.  It was exciting to see everyone focus and give it a shot.  No one said, "I can't."  We sure did a lot of laughing which was good for our soul.  We have learned much about breathing, tried different poses, participated in meditations and played cooperative games!  Everyone is so relaxed when they head out to class after yoga on Monday mornings.  It's wonderful to hear so many students  tell me that they have been using yoga breathing and yoga strategies during the MCAS testing. Yoga is a life long gift that you give to yourself-great job yogis!