Christmas Tree Pose

12/12/2018

When things get a little hectic in the holiday season – why not practice one of our favourite calming and balancing poses the ‘tree pose’.

All children love this pose and what is great is if you can get them to see if they can count how long they can hold it for – the longer they can balance the calmer they will be.

Make sure they focus on something that isn’t moving to help them balance.

To finish take a short ‘Santa relaxation ‘– making sure that he will have lots of energy to be able to deliver all the wonderful treats that he has for children everywhere.

After Santa relaxation a wonderful extension of this calm space is to imagine how they would look if they were a Christmas tree and how they might decorate themselves.

After drawing themselves in the tree pose they can begin to create themselves sparkling with lots of fabulous decorations.

Simple creative tools – Paper, pencils, colour pencils or textas and maybe some glitter pens or gold and silver.

Merry Christmas

Karen x

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Karen Wightman is the founder of Creative Yogis. She is an experienced, local and international children’s yoga instructor, yoga teacher trainer, and children’s art teacher.

She currently facilitates teacher trainings and workshops in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Taiwan.

She has 15 years experience teaching yoga to children of all ages, from pre-school to high school, and has been a children’s art teacher for 30 years.

Karen is passionate about offering a variety of unique educational yoga resources to stimulate the imagination and capture the hearts of children.

She has illustrated and published children's yoga colouring ebooks in English and Japanese. A free sample is available here.

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