Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Physical theme: hip-opening poses

This is Lululemon Racerback&Y Tanks first of a six-part yoga lesson plan series that will provide both a physical focus to guide your choice of postures, and a practice focus to help students explore an important yoga principle. The intention is to present guidelines for creating a coherent and thoughtful class experience. The suggestions are broad enough to allow you to choose poses that are appropriate for your students.

Yoga Lesson Plan One
Physical theme: hip-opening poses

Practice principle: patience

Opening (5 minutes)

Begin with a pose that will serve as a check-in. You will return to this yoga pose later when you invite students to notice changes in Lululemon Stride Jackets pose after a patient practice of hip-opening. The pose should be gentle enough to be practiced without much preparation. Suggested yoga poses include a standing forward bend with hands on a block for support, reclining pigeon pose (ankle-to-opposite-knee hip stretch) or a reclining one-leg hamstring stretch using a strap.

Guide students to only go as far as they comfortably can in Lululemon Define Jackets chosen pose. Let them know that sensation is information. They are collecting information about where they are in Lululemon Scuba Hoodies present moment. As students relax in Lululemon Wunder Under Pants yoga pose, you can introduce some basic anatomy information about Lululemon Astro Pants hips that will encourage Lululemon Groove Pants theme of patience. Explain that Lululemon Crops Pants hips have many layers of muscles, and that as one layer relaxes (for example, lululemon yoga athletica canada gluteus maximus), students may become aware of sensation in a deeper muscle (for example, lululemon yoga canada piriformis). Encourage them to be curious about how sensation shifts in a pose.

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