How to Integrate Yoga in your Home School (+ Printable Poster)
Bring the healthy benefits of yoga into your home schooling curriculum with these twenty-five kids yoga ideas. Also, check out the printable poster for forty ways to practice classroom yoga.
How to Do Yoga in your Home School
- Take yoga breaks to either bring calm or help energize (ex. tree pose, breathing technique, downward-facing dog pose)
- Organize a regular community service project
- Make yoga a daily five-minute ritual
- Sit quietly for a few minutes to help focus
- Introduce a new theme through kids yoga (ex. rainforest, ocean, jungle)
- Take a yoga field trip to the zoo acting out the animals (ex. bear, giraffe, elephant)
- Take a yoga hike and act out your natural surrounding (ex. tree, mountain, bird)
- Read aloud guided visualization or relaxation stories
- Create a Homeschool yoga club with other local homeschooling families
- Host a yoga party
- Research and discuss the history of yoga
- Practice yoga postures for flexibility, strength, and balance (for your Physical Education session)
- Teach anatomy and physiology
- Teach another language through yoga (ex. count to ten in Spanish while doing tree pose)
- Teach and practice breathing techniques to reduce stress
- Play yoga games to develop teamwork and cooperation skills (ex. yogi says, yoga pictionary, strike a pose)
- Do partner yoga (ex. massage train, group sit, down dog tunnel)
- Read books on the yoga principles of happiness, truthfulness, compassion, gratitude, self-awareness, and cleanliness
- Go on pretend journeys to different countries through yoga
- Sign up for local kids yoga class
- Write your own yoga adventure stories
- Read and act out kids yoga books
- Make your own musical instruments and practice musical yoga
- Do Yoga Art projects (ex. make pose cards, paint your feelings, take pictures)
- Practice mindfulness and doing a task fully present in the moment
Download your free “40 HOMESCHOOL YOGA IDEAS” poster
Popular Yoga Books for Kids
You might like our popular yoga books for kids to add to your kids yoga homeschool toolkit:
– Sophia’s Jungle Adventure
– Anna and her Rainbow-Colored Yoga Mats
– Rachel’s Day in the Garden
Popular Yoga Books Pack by Kids Yoga Stories
Other resources for homeschooling yoga
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