Yoga Poses | Classroom Movement | Break Cards

Yoga is a useful and easy movement experience for students in the classroom. Yoga provides students with opportunities to improve flexibility and core strength. Research also suggests that practicing yoga reduces impulsivity, improves attention, and helps with relaxation.

Why use YOGA with your students?
Yoga helps us gain flexibility, get stronger, be stronger, more focused, and become relaxed. Yoga poses help students with improving balance, develop body awareness, gain flexibility and strength, and improve coordination. Students gain these skills and have fun doing them! Remember, yoga is a practice, meaning that it takes time and repeated repetition to gain skills.

Resource Contains:
24 Yoga Poses Cards
How to use Yoga Cards in the classroom and beyond
Ways to introduce & practice yoga
Implementation tips
Both color and black/white versions to print

How to use these yoga cards?
Use these yoga cards with students individually, in small groups, and for whole-class activities. 24 Yoga Pose Cards are designed to be fun and interactive cards that can be used for a variety of activities and games. Besides using yoga within a classroom, yoga can be used for team building, help prepare for a sports game, include in a club activity, or just calm a child down at the end of a long day.

Each card has the name of the pose, a picture of the pose, and a description of the movements needed to create the pose.

Print, cut, and laminate the cards for repeated use in games and activities.

Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for ways to teach and provide yoga to their students. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to yoga poses and the benefits of yoga practice. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, autism, and anxiety.

Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Brain Breaks – Classroom Movement
Mindfulness Toolkit

Copyright Information
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DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.