| Body | Total time: approximately 45 minutes. Yoga With Adriene “Yoga for Teachers” video time: (30:22)
Before you try anything out in the classroom, try something out for yourself. Please note, if you have any injuries or limitations you may consult a doctor or wellness expert as well as search online to find adaptations in poses.
- Grab a pencil and paper plus yoga mat/towel/blanket. A pillow may be handy for sitting or kneeling.
- Turn off your cell phone.
- Roll out your yoga mat/towel/blanket.
- Sit down. Take two minutes to free-write. The topic: “How I will let what I want to be inspire rather than terrify me?” Now, jot down (using only adjectives) the language teacher you were today and one you would like to be most like.
- After the free write, stand at the top of your mat feet hip width apart. Check in with your body. How does it feel?
- Thank yourself. I recommend being ridiculous, shaking your own hand, and saying a hearty “Well done, you handsome devil you!” Making it to the mat was the hardest part. Welcome. Let’s get nourished and have some fun!
- Before beginning the video, close your eyes. Your lungs are life-giving balloons. Take a big sip of air as you breathe all the way into your stomach and let all four corners of your torso inflate. Exhale. Repeat x3.
- Try on a small smile. You magnificent creature you!
- One quick question. I recommend going with the first thing that comes up. What is the top quality you would like to emanate and impart with ease in your classroom this week?
- Press “play” on the Yoga With Adriene “Yoga For Teachers” video. Complete or go as far as you can.
- Once the video has finished, say a quick thank you to your body for all it does. Give yourself a few minutes and move at your own pace into the final step.
- In your mind, note: how and where do your body and mind feel different?
- Pencil and pen, List what you did well as an educator this week. Whatever word(s) came up in Step 9, please now take the biggest inhale from your day and say the word in your head with an exhale. As a final step, please now quietly utter, loudly shout, or whatever way feels right to yourself: "I already know how."
- As Adriene of Yoga with Adriene would say, “The awesome in me bows to the awesome in you.” Thank you for showing up. A healthy, happy teacher is a healthy, happy classroom. May you be an ever-increasing torch in life.
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