Movement Yoga

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Movement Yoga

• Yoga Materials
• Sufficient Space for Yoga
• Yoga Mat (optional)
• Music

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Movement Yoga

• Yoga Procedures
• Find an open space in the room.
• Follow the procedures on the slide.
• Remember to breath through yournose.

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Movement Yoga

• Breathing
• Revitalizes the mind and body
• Proper breathing brings more oxygen to the blood
  and to the brain, and controls prana or the vital
  life energy
• The brain requires more oxygen than any other
  organ. If it doesn't get enough, the result is
  mental sluggishness, negative thoughts,
  depression and, eventually, vision and hearing
  declines.
• Consciously exhale long and thin through your
  nose.

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Movement Yoga

• The Yoga ABCs by Deborah Ryzewski
• The Eagle Pose
• Start in a standing position
• Bend your knees and wrap one leg around the
  other, wrapping your foot around your opposite
  calf
• Bend both arms and bring the back of your hands
  together
• Move your left hand toward you and your right
  hand back until your palms touch

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Movement Yoga

• The Yoga ABCs by Deborah Ryzewski
• The Upper Back Stretch Pose
• Stand facing forward with your legs and feet
  wide apart
• Take a deep breath and as you exhale,
• Drop your head back and take your hands behind
  your back in either prayer position or reverse
  prayer position

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Movement Yoga

• The Yoga ABCs by Deborah Ryzewski
• The Warrior Pose
• Stand facing forward with your legs and feet
  wide apart
• Keeping your left let straight, bend your right
  leg to form a right angle
• Keep your left and right arms in a straight line

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Movement Yoga

• Benefits of Yoga
• As yoga poses are done with the right and left
  side of the body equally, right and left brain
  connections are reinforced.
• Concentration is developed by performing the
  correct sequence of movements in the poses, and
  by remembering what pose comes next.
• By moving the right or left side of the body
  following the verbal direction to do so, students
  learn which are their right and left sides, and
  moving to the right or left.
• Focusing the eyes is developed in poses that hold
  a gaze on a specific spot for a moment.

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Movement Yoga

• More Benefits of Yoga
• Moving in rhythm with the group while doing even
  and regular breathing seems to have a calming
  effect.
• Following the yoga poses, taking a few minutes
  for meditation is calming and centering.
• Learning even and regular breathing gives instant
  stress relief on a moment's notice. The regular
  even breathing is a bridge that ties body to
  mind when breathing is made regular it calms the
  physical body.
• Yoga is non-competitive everyone progresses at
  their own rate.
• Yoga poses are an activity that can be done
  individually or in a group setting.

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Movement Yoga

• Yoga Resources
• http//www.yogaed.com/
• http//www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/08/
  hm.kids.yoga/index.html
• http//www.classroomyoga.com/
• http//www.yogaabcs.com/index.htm
• http//www.letsplayyoga.com/
• Bermsa, Daniele Marjoke Visscher (2003). Yoga
  Games for Children Fun and Fitness with
  Postures, Movements, and Breath. Brainerd, MN
  Bang Printing.
• Ryzewski, Deborah (2004). The Yoga ABC's.
  Valporaiso, IN The Yoga ABC's.