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School Yoga Introduction
School Yoga is an integral physical education curriculum that utilizes Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Sivananda Classic Hatha Yoga as the primary sources to promote a healthy mind and healthy body for school age students (K-12). The curriculum includes fundamental poses /routines and challenging postures/routines. These poses and routines are physically demanding and designed to condition physical body including flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, body compostion, and cardiovascular capacity. The system also includes breathing techniques and relaxation/meditation methods to enhance students concentration, to reduce distress and to experience the connection between the mind and body.
The School Yoga is designed for school physical education program as an alternative curriculum. School Yoga curriculum combines fundamental yoga techniques such as conscious breathing, basic and challenging yoga poses, relaxation, and yoga theory/practice into simple as a15-30 minute sequences practice that elementary children can do or a 30-45 minutes challenging practice for secondary students. It can be practiced one to five times a week in either 15 minutes School Yoga, 30 minutes School Yoga, or 45 minutes School Yoga based on capability of and time availability of students. A typical School Yoga class includes five segments, conscious breathing, warm up sequences, lesson focus sequence, closure sequence, and relaxation.
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