National Yoga Recess Day

Students at JFK participated in National Yoga Recess Day today!!! Teachers and students had so much fun and   I was amazed at how many of our students knew some yoga.  Here are some quotes from students:

"Yoga at recess, AWESOME!! Can we do it the whole recess!"-2nd grader

"We've got a whole bunch of people to do Warrior 1, from all of the classes!" -5th grader

"I don't mind giving up my recess to do yoga, I'd do it anytime!"- 4th grader

"This is so much fun!"-1st grader

"When can we do yoga again?"-Kindergarten student.

Click here to see Mrs. Trockman's Kindergarten students being led by 4th grade students.

Mrs. Robert's 1st graders sit in Easy Pose with their hands in Guyan Mudra

5th grade Warriors, they look fearless!

Ms. Golden's 2nd graders in Tree Pose!

All of the 4th graders as Warriors, they are brave and bold!

Rise and Shine Yoga

Sign ups for Rise and Shine Yoga will be starting soon.  Check out these videos to hear what other kids have to say about the benefits of yoga! They love poses, meditations, and it is fun!!  Sat Nam :)

Luke and Simon

Chris

Sophie and gang

Ben and Gang

Long Time Sun

Rise and Shine Yoga

We have been very busy the last few weeks with more partner yoga, the ABC's of Yoga and our first kriya. We have been working on different meditations and strategies for handling the daily challenges of school.  We began sitali breathing, breath of fire and learned how to do the ego eradicator. Next week will be our last week together until the spring.  Enjoy the pictures!

Lap Circle-WE DID IT!

Kriya for spine alignment

The ABC's of Yoga by Teresa Anne Power

Grace in Flower pose

Strong Warriors

Rise and Shine Yoga-week 4

Partner Yoga-fun!!! WE ended our morning with the "I am," meditation.  It was a great morning!  DOn't forget, we will meet next Tuesday, instead of Monday, in lieu of the Veteran's Day holiday.

Rise and Shine Yoga

Hurricane Sandy couldn't stop us from our morning yoga practice!  We had a great time with some spooky Halloween yoga.  We did a half moon on a scary night, a witch's broomstick (crescent moon), scary cats, frog pose (the main ingredient in a witch's brew), creaky gates, troll bridge (tickle table) and some of us even tried to be scary crows!  Check out the picture of Luke C-those swimming arms really help!  We even learned to breathe like dragons (breath of fire) and how to chop wood to break through anger and negative thought patterns.

Rise and Shine Yoga

Due to Hurricane Sandy, and the  closing of school, Rise and Shine Yoga will NOT meet on Monday morning, 10/29.  We will meet Tuesday morning instead.  For the "purpose of playing," (thanks Mr. Swinamer :)), Yoga will meet on the FIRST morning that school is in session.  Let's hope it's Tuesday.  See if you can come up with an asana or mudra while you wait out the storm.

Yoga for the Ladybug 5k

I was asked to lead a quick :10 minute yoga stretch for children and a 15 minute set for adults at theLadybug 5k today. I enlisted the help of two veteran RCY students, Nathan and Kate to help me.  They wrote the set and Nathan created a Power Point of the asanas that he and Kate wanted to showcase.  The children in the first set ranged in age from 1 1/2 to 10.  It was quite an interesting and exciting  experience.  I think we'll call it "Speed Yoga!"  Kate, Nathan and I made sure to tune in together before we started so that we would all be coming from the same place and would be combining our energy. This really made all the difference.  The adult set went well and then we did an impromptu set for teenagers!  We squeezed A LOT of yoga into 40 minutes.  I donated my time as a volunteer for this fund raiser and as a special bonus, Radiant Child Yoga was listed as a Corporate Sponsor of the event!  So many blessings :)
 Click here to see the video of some of the children's set! Pictures to follow!  Enjoy.