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Character Development

What’s Boy Culture? What it Means for Yoga for Boys

Are the schools losing the boys? In her TED talk Ali Carr-Chellman presents statistics indicating schools are encouraging girl culture with the result being boys don’t feel school is for them. This points to an opportunity for kids yoga teachers to bring boy friendly postures and activities to their classes.

Filed Under: Character Development, Kids Yoga, Lesson Plans Tagged With: classroom management, Kids Yoga, partner yoga, schools, yoga for boys

Character Development – Empathy

All humans are soft wired with mirror neurons…we’re soft wired to experience another’s plight as if we’re experiencing it ourself. These stages of development in children help us understand what empathy is, and how to teach it in kids yoga class.

Filed Under: Character Development, Kids Yoga Tagged With: character development, empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, science

Kids Yoga Lesson Plan: Responsibilty

Responsibility is the Character Development theme for the month of October in our School Board. Do your homework.  Look after your sister.  Be Responsible!  Kids can be so irresponsible when it comes to taking care of their stuff or taking the initiative to get something done.  This month’s theme of responsibility is a topic kids […]

Filed Under: Character Development, Kids Yoga, Lesson Plans, Yoga Games Tagged With: character development, lesson plans, resonsibility

Kids Yoga Lesson Plans: Respect

A teacher and student play together in a parnter yoga pose doing cobra pose and Cat Cow

Respect is the Character Development theme for the month of September in our School Board. Respect means thoughtfulness, consideration, honor, admiration, regard, esteem.  All these words show what happens when there is respect.  But with kids you need to give them more than words, you need to give them an experience of Respect for them […]

Filed Under: Character Development, Kids Yoga, Lesson Plans, Yoga Games Tagged With: character development, lesson plans, partner yoga, respect, themes, yoga for children, yoga for kids, Yoga Games

Character Development: Perseverance

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb. Perseverance is that that dogged determination to succeed despite setbacks or obstacles. The Yoga Sutras and Niyamas support developing Perseverance to build character for both children and adults.

Filed Under: Character Development, Inspiration, Kids Yoga Tagged With: character development, perseverance

Character Development: 3 Steps to Integrity

In my city, Toronto (Canada), school teachers must guide kids on  Character Development themes.  Today’s theme is Integrity.  Remember integers in math?  They are whole numbers.  Integrity comes from the same root meaning whole or complete.  Sounds perfect for yoga and today’s post by Yoga In My School specialist, Donna Freeman.  She gives Three Steps […]

Filed Under: Character Development, Inspiration, Kids Yoga Tagged With: ahimsa, character development, honesty, integer, integrity

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