Bridges and tunnels

Raya's first bridge

Today I taught the kids how to do bridges. I was going to do the half bridges but they all seemed ready for full bridges! I positioned them, then said I had an invisible string tied to their belly button that was pulling them toward the ceiling. I pulled the string and they all just popped right up - much to all our surprise! Soon the idea was hatched to make a tunnel - and the boys would crawl under the girls tunnel and girls under the boys tunnel. They had so much fun! For svasanna today I did a visualization where they were all lying in the bottom of a small boat floating down a canal under bridges. The bridges each had a color of the rainbow painted under  each one and they imagined the color as they floated under them.

Arielle's first bridge

Sandra's first bridge

Joe's first bridge

Boy's tunnel

getting ready for girls tunnel

Lotus, back rubs and pillow talk

 

Yoga this week was filled with lots of group exercises. Sometimes when the classroom has a lot of issues, I tend to pack yoga with exercises that promote cooperation and consideration of others. Like the back rubs. Some were doing it too hard so each person communicated how much they wanted. Sometimes touching each other releases chemicals in our bodies that feel good and connect us to others. They had fun as usual!

Donna the lunch lady taking a one minute breather from washing dishes!

the closest one could get to full lotus in our class!

hissing like cobra snakes!

back rubs all around

pillow exercise - breathing full enough to raise the head on your stomach!