Kid’s Yoga Lesson 1: The Sundance

If you’d like to practice yoga with your child and are just getting started, try SUNDANCE.

If you practice yoga, chances are you’ve done a sun salute, surya namaskar, also called vinyasa.

In children’s yoga, we sundance like this:

• Inhale, stretch your arms overhead: SING: “HELLO TO THE SUN!”
• Exhale and swan-dive down to the Earth: SING: “HELLO TO THE EARTH”
• Look up toward the center of the circle (pike pose): SING: “HELLO TO MY FRIENDS”
• Jump the body into Diving Board Pose (Chatrunga Dandasana)
• Smile
• Take a breath in
• Lion’s Breath Exhale to lower on to the tummy
• Inhale, snake pose (Bhujangasana)
• Exhale, seed pose (Child’s, Balasana)
• Frog jump to the hands (Ribbit if you’d like!)
• Press into the feet, inhale to rise, Sun Breath in Mountain Pose
• Return hands to Namate
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