Bird brings the crayon (jump for joy)Īll of a sudden, soaring up from beneath her, the beautiful bird returns to her, bringing her magic crayon with. They put her in a giant cage and throw away her crayon! She is caught! She sits, devastated, locked in the cage looking out at the huge world beneath her. Unfortunately, though the bird has been saved, the guards capture the girl. Her hot air balloon lands, and she makes a break for it, running to grab the cage, and just in time she throws open the doors and frees the bird! The girl is captured (sit with knees up and head down) She watches sadly as the bird is put in a big cage, on display for the ones who caught it. She continues to watch the bird, and is startled when it is suddenly captured in a big net! Bird in a cage (Eagle pose) The bird is captured (woodchopper action to mime catching bird) So, she picks up her magic crayon and draws a door in the wall, opens it up, and walks through! No one wants to throw the ball around Door (seated forward fold arms lift to open the door) It’s not nice enough out to play with her kite. She doesn’t want to ride her scooter Kite (crescent moon pose) All of her family members are busy doing things and no one will play with her. Let’s read it together and find out what she does.ĭo the poses with me, staying in your own space.Ī little girl is feeling very bored one day in the summer. She goes on a Journey into the world and finds some incredible things to do and explore. The child in the story we are going to read has this wonderful crayon that opens up a door into a new world. Pretend you have a crayon and draw some big things to help you get from place to place.

Mime drawing that item, if it’s really big. If you had a magic crayon that could draw you anything, what would you make? Here’s the outline of the kids yoga lesson plan I taught using the book, Journey Journey Yoga Lesson Plan and Sequence of Poses Opening Question and Warm Up:

Fully scripted story to go with the book, Journey.

24 full-sized yoga poses and descriptions.

Here is a Journey Yoga Lesson Plan with … The main set of poses is here, called a Yoga Flow. Here are some beautiful kids yoga cards with lots of diverse students.

I found lots of books that were adaptable to teaching yoga lesson plans. This format of teaching, reading books, and doing poses to go along with the story, was one that worked really well for me a couple of years.

Yoga and Storytelling is a great way to teach kids yoga That is an excellent yoga lesson plan and storytelling goal!

It was fun to plan out the sequence ahead of time, but some kids are completely able to come up with poses as they read or tell the story to themselves. They also lend themselves nicely to yoga lesson plans and sequences. You can grab the whole trio of books here. (The next two books by Aaron Becker, Quest and Return, are just as beautiful.)

Journey by Aaron Becker