These skills are a proven and effective way to promote self-regulation ability, learning readiness and resilience while cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom.
Lisa Flynn – Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom
Mind-Body Connection
Neuroscience of attention, learning and behavior
Rationale for yoga and mindfulness in the classroom
Research on yoga in schools
Self-Regulation: A 5 Step Approach
Noticing
Mindful Choice
Practice
Reflection
Integration
Practical Tools for The Classroom
Let’s Breathe
Conscious breathing exercises to calm and center or empower and energize
Balloon Breath
Countdown to Calm
Power Breath
Conductor Breath, and more…
At Your Desk
Convenient, time-saving seated stretches and modified yoga postures to refresh and focus
Cat Pose
Open Heart
Corkscrew
Sitting Pigeon, and more…
Stand Strong
Simple, structured opportunities to stand up and stretch, balance and strengthen
Mountain
Waterfall
Crescent Moon
Desk Puppy, and more…
Loosen Up
Take a break activities designed to dispel stress, build community and promote readiness to learn
Do My Best
Geyser
Posture Prep
Stick Ems, and more…
Be Well
Developmentally-appropriate discussion starters supporting health and wellness of the whole child
Celebrate You
Practice Peace
Get Your Zzzzs
Be Clean, and more…
Imagination Vacation
Modified, child-friendly approaches to meditation and relaxation
Special Friend
Mindful Meditations
Gratitude Relaxation
Picture it Tree, and more…
Sequences
Morning Meeting
Take a Break
Transitions
Pre-Writing & Writing Break
Pre-Testing & Testing Break
Calm / Focus
Mood / Energy Shift
Close of Day
Sustainability
Tools and tips for engagement
Modify for individual needs and abilities
Empowering your students to integrate learning
Engaging the family
Monitoring the impact of implementation
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Description:
67 simple, classroom-friendly yoga and mindfulness techniques to support self-awareness, self-regulation, social and emotional learning and resilience
Understand the neuroscience of stress, the symptoms and how it affects learning and behavior
5 critical steps to integrated self-regulation
Facilitate learning readiness, reduce impulsive behaviors and improve student achievement
Improve classroom management while supporting students individual needs, cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom climate
Become a more effective educator as you lead and practice these tools with your students
Do you find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your easily distracted student? The one who has a hard time maintaining focus? What if you had the tools that would enhance focus and attention, ease anxiety, and improve confidence, self-esteem and academic performance? During this seminar, you will learn simple, developmentally appropriate yoga and mindfulness tools that can be immediately integrated into your daily curriculum. These skills are a proven and effective way to promote self-regulation ability, learning readiness and resilience while cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom.
Through the framework of – Noticing, Mindful Choice, Practice, Reflection, Integration – you will learn how to empower your students and yourself with increased self-awareness, the foundation for the development of self-regulation skills and cognitive control. Through 67 simple yoga and mindfulness-based activities designed to engage the whole child, you will help your students move from a state of anxiety and dysregulation to a state of engagement, control and connectedness. All activities are specially chosen for their suitability for the typical classroom space and schedule and can be done standing beside or sitting at desks, while hands and bodies remain off the floor. Yoga 4 Classrooms is easy for teachers, students, and therapists to use, and helps to create a more harmonious, learning-friendly school day.
This inspiring workshop will give you the tools to integrate yoga and mindfulness skills into your classroom, leaving everyone feeling empowered, calm and ready to learn. Absolutely no yoga experience is required.
