Class Outline

Date ______________________ Location____________________________

Always have an inversion, forward bend, backward bend, balance and twist

1. Go to the bathroom/snack & water before class

2. Place your shoes and bags “mindfully” …away from mats

3. Place mats in two rows facing each other or in a circle

4. Yoga is A-OK/What is Om? - 3 Oms/Meditation and/or discussion

(DON’T “OM?” JUMP TO YOUR MEDITATION)

5. Insert your BLIS

6. Salutation Creation, Salutation to the Sun or Rolling Salutation

7. List five to ten poses to learn/review (in any of the following methods)

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Story ________________________________________________________

Game/Activity/Song_____________________________________________

Partner Pose(s) _________________________________________________

Optional… Massage train is BEFORE SG if using CD

(Laughing Meditation is just before SG if using it)

20 MINUTES before class is over you must be in the Secret Garden!

********THE SECRET GARDEN********

CIRCLE BELOW

Pranayama: Bunny breaths/Bumble bee/Alt Nostril/Worry Bubbles

Meditation: Beanie/Peace Begins../ Mala beads/Walking

Closing Circle: Massage train without music/ Talking Stick/Song/ H-work/Mantra Rap

Closing Chant: Om Shanti or May the Long Time Sun (one verse)

Always close with:

“May the entire universe be filled with peace and joy, love and light, and lots of peaceful children…NAMASTE”

Class Outline Cheat Sheet

2 Samples of BLIS-More in your manual

1-I think I’m going to rock my baby. Will you join me? Rock your baby back and forth and back and forth. Ah Ah baby….Kiss your baby…PEE –U That stinks! Try to put your baby over your shoulder and/or behind your head. Hey, you’ve got twins!! Don’t forget about your other baby. The baby is tired, I’m going to put him/her down for a nap while I watch some TV. I’m hungry…I think I’ll eat some PRETZELS. But I don’t want to make a mess on the couch so I’m going to sit down behind my TABLE. Watch out for the FLOWERS, you don’t want to knock them over.

2-Would you guys like to watch some TV with me? I’m watching the animal planet. It’s a great show about a CAT and a COW. They become great friends with a DOG in the neighborhood. The DOG is always running UP and DOWN the street howling. The CAT and the COW are trying to eat their PRETZELS and the DOG keeps stealing them.

(make up your own…it’s easy and a nice way to start movin)

Games/Activities:

Duck Duck Pose/Yogi Says/Red Light/Caged Lion/Sherlock Ommmmms/Jungle Joggin/Choo Choo Tushy Walk/Yoga-lympics/Toe-Ga/ Trees Tag/ Make a pizza/Make a sandwich/Write a story/Play teacher with the card deck/Pom Pom bball

Songs:

If you’re happy and you know it/Row your boat/Anything from our CD

Partner Poses:

Childs/Boat/Dancer/Tree/ Camel/Sailboat with straps/Elevator UP

Mantra Rap: (from the song Hip Hop Yoga Bop on our CD)

If you wanna feel good and you wanna be strong than do your yoga all day long

Breathe stretch and meditate add good deeds you're doing great

Be peaceful and be really kind and than you'll have a yoga mind

Om shanti and namaste are yoga words I like to say

Yo Yo Yoga life is really cool, I share it with my friends in my school

I'll never let it go away I'm gonna practice every day

So now you feel good and now you feel strong cuz you're doin yoga with this song

Your focused, kind and loving too it's amazing what yoga brings to you

It lifts you up to a higher plane, you’re walking on air..... you don't complain

You'll see everything in a whole new light, it's all good, (We know that's right!)

Yo Yo Yoga life belongs to you, it stretches your mind and your body too!

Don't ever let it go away and remember to practice everyday