Let's do some yoga!
Let's do some yoga!
A simple yoga experience
Materials Required
- Digital device to view other positions, websites or other yoga resources such as yoga stories for children
Yoga or similar mat
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime15 - 30 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Stretch - Have water nearby to remain hydrated - Soft, relaxation musicExperience Steps
- Have a device ready with the images or print if desired, or watch the below video of the Discovery Space educator engaging in yoga with the children.
- Have a quiet space with plenty of room―may be inside or outside.
- Try each position slowly, one at a time.
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- How can you move your body in different ways?
- What shapes does your body make when you re-create each position?
- What other ways can you move your body?
Build on this...
- Encourage practice regularly, try new and different positions.
- Listen to yoga stories and create the positions as the story is told.
- Look further into meditation and mindful breathing, ways to calm your body.
- Create your own positions to a theme, such as animals or shapes.
- Create some yoga cards with your child from drawings of different yoga poses.
WHO guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behaviour
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Provide evidence-based public health recommendations for children, adolescents and adults on physical activity. Learn more
This is a physical activity which involves concentration, balance, co-ordination, large and small physical movements, and simple stretching techniques.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
https://convertkit.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/documents/174862/2221587/Breathe-Calm-Connect-Minipack-FINAL.pdf
https://youtu.be/advBAZzgsuc watch this Discovery at Home yoga experience with the educators at the Discovery Space, Early Start, UOW
https://www.kidsyogastories.com/breathing-exercises-for-kids/
https://www.kidsyogastories.com/partner-yoga-poses/
https://www.kidsyogastories.com/calm-down-yoga-poses-for-kids/
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