by Maia Horsager | Feb 19, 2020 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Teaching Tips
Teaching yoga and academics with a growth mindset I teach yoga in a public charter elementary school, and we have lots of standards for teaching, academic requirements, and plenty of standardized test seasons. Most of the time my Movement class is separate from all of...
by Maia Horsager | Feb 16, 2020 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Stories
Here’s a way to get kids to move and be active while reading and being creative: a kids yoga lesson plan based on the book Journey Movement and literacy. Active kids and a love of reading. Yoga and storytelling. The first year I started teaching yoga at a K-4...
by Maia Horsager | Nov 8, 2019 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Themes
Is gratitude a part of yoga? Absolutely. Can you teach kids gratitude with the help of yoga? I think so. Many folks who teach kids...
by Maia Horsager | Oct 30, 2019 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Stories
My Many Colored Days Lesson Plan for Kids Creating a kids yoga lesson based on a book or story is a great way to teach literacy, talk about specific themes, and bring movement to your classroom! It’s also an excellent way to come up with lesson plans for kids...
by Maia Horsager | Sep 18, 2019 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Stories
My students LOVE tree pose, so I came up with this kids yoga lesson plan based on the book, The Great Kapok Tree. This is a great lesson because you can encompass many themes based on The Great Kapok Tree: the junglethe rainforestSouth AmericaenvironmentalismEarth...
by Maia Horsager | Oct 7, 2018 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Themes
Halloween is the MOST popular holiday at my school, hands down. You can’t even say the word “October” without hearing squeals of excitement permeating the hallways. Needless to say, I used this Halloween excitement to fully take advantage of how...
by Maia Horsager | Apr 9, 2018 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Teaching Tips
Teaching yoga to kids in elementary school be loud and crazy, those kids are full of energy! I never envisioned myself as a teacher, let alone one in a classroom of unruly, wild, and overactive children. Now here I am trying to teach them how to be calm by using...
by Maia Horsager | Jan 9, 2018 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Teaching Tips
Teaching yoga to kids was an unexpected blessing that I stumbled across 5 years ago. I took a few courses on Kid’s Yoga teaching after completing my 220-hour RYT training. I was teaching at a preschool at the time and had fun teaching it to them in small doses...
by Maia Horsager | Jan 2, 2018 | Yoga for Kids, Yoga Lesson Plans, Yoga Stories, Yoga Teaching Tips
Storytelling with Yoga? It works! Kids are hard to control in a group. Teaching kids how to move their bodies in a specific way (like yoga) with clear directions is really hard, too. Imagine you have a whole group of kiddos, active and moving, needing something to...
