Animal Yoga Poses

As part of our Engage programme we have been doing some animal yoga poses.  We found if we did our breathing exercises first to get ourselves feeling calm then it was much easier to stand on one leg like a flamingo.  Also if we focused on something that didn't move but looked straight ahead it was so much easier to balance.

Olivia hung upside down like a bat

Rataimore found standing like a flamingo was easy

Elena used her "outstretched wings" for balance

"I can do it!"

Through the Kiwisport "Get, Set, Go " programme the children have been learning how to balance.  Some of the children have been finding this a difficult skill so we used our Engage skills of relaxing first and listening carefully to the instructions of looking straight ahead, not talking, aeroplane arms and gradually getting our balance on one leg then lifting it off the ground.  Suddenly there was a very excited voice saying, "I can do it!" as Attah listen carefully to the instructions.  Well done, Attah.

Attah (third from left) was excited to find he could balance

Peyton found it easy to balance