Here are some breathing exercises to help when you are feeling stressed or anxious. My favorite is Whale Breath!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prompts for Breathing Techniques Birthday Candles- Holding a \u201cbirthday cake\u201d in our hands in front of us, we Pillows Breathing- One yogi on his\/her back, Second yogi lies down so that Bowl of Soup or Ice Cream- Each yogi decides the flavor of soup\/ice cream and then everyone smells & blows off their soup\/ice cream. Then Cool Breathe This can help calm you when feeling upset or mad. Make Whale breath Sitting pretzel style, sit up tall, take a deep breathe in, Snake Breath Sitting tall, breathe in, pause, then slowly & smoothly Bunny Breath This can be done seated or with movement. Seated, sit on Bumblebee Breath With a flower prop, as you breathe in you smell your Pinwheels- Practicing with blowing hard or soft as you spin the Feather Breath Yogis practice their breath by blowing feathers off their Bubbles A fun introduction to breathing for kids. If you are Volcano Breath With hands at heart center, breathe in as you lift hands Belly Breathing Placing hand OR small toy on stomach to see or feel it Wood Chopper Standing tall with legs hip distance, raise arms above Alternate Nostril breathing Thumb holds one side, pointer finger holds the other. As you breathe in, hold down one side of the nostril and as Hoberman Sphere A very fun expanding toy that helps demonstrate the Here are some breathing exercises to help when you are feeling stressed or anxious. My favorite is Whale Breath! Prompts for Breathing Techniques Balloon Breath- Sitting on our knees we breathe in as we fill up ourballoons by raising our hands over our head. As webreathe out, we let the air out of our balloons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Balloon Breath- Sitting on our knees we breathe in as we fill up our
balloons by raising our hands over our head. As we
breathe out, we let the air out of our balloons by releasing
our hands to the floor. After 2 or 3 rounds, we then blow
up our balloons and release by popping<\/em> our balloons by
slapping our hands to the floor.
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sing Happy birthday as we blow out the candles on your
cake. Also fun to do in candle pose<\/em>
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first yogi is their \u201cpillow\u201d. Take deep breathes\u2026did you
feel your yogi partner move? Switch! You can even make
a \u201cstaircase\u201d by having several yogis line up doing this.
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gobble it up!
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your tongue into a \u201cstraw\u201d by opening your mouth and
pulling up the sides in a U shape. Deep breathes in
through straw & out through nose.
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HOLD it while you count to 5 with your fingers then tilt
head up to blow it out of blow hole OR reach hands up
on top of head to create the blow hole to \u201cblow\u201d out.
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breathe out making a hissing sound for as long as you
can.
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shins hands in \u201cbunny\u201d hands in front of heart as you take
quick sniffs. With movement, start at end of mat in yogi
squat and hop to front of mat while taking quick bunny
sniffs.
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flower and as you breathe out, make humming bee
sound. Try for long, short, high\/low sounds.
Pom Pom Breathing- For toddlers: With a large pom pom in hand, yogis
practice blowing it out of their hand. For older yogis:
Using a straw, yogis can try to move the pom pom across
the floor.
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pinwheel with your breath.
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hand, up in the air, or just at the feather to watch it move.
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outside, use regular bubble liquid and wands. Indoors,
you can use a bubble wand and pretend to blow different
sorts of bubbles.
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up, and then \u201cexplode\u201d and breath out and lava comes
down the volcano, hands down by side.
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rise & fall.
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head and clasp hands together. Breathe in through nose
and as you exhale say \u201cHA\u201d to \u201cchop\u201d wood or do the
same with a SUN and bring it to your belly saying \u201cHA\u201d.
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you breath out hold down the opposite nostril.
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inhale and exhale in breathing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"