Beginning in January, Kelvin Grove will have a yoga and meditation club available for all 4-8 students as a new club opportunity. Yoga and meditation have many physical, emotional, and mental benefits. Scientific studies conclude that yoga helps reduce stress; improves mental health; reduces anxiety; improves quality of life in areas of relationships, creativity, learning opportunities, and health; boosts immunity; improves sleep; improves self-esteem; activates areas of the brain responsible for motivation, executive functioning, attention, and neuroplasticity; and helps improve interoceptive awareness. Additionally, meditation has many health and social-emotional benefits including improving concentration, mental clarity and focus; decreasing stress, worry, depression, and anxiety; increasing gray matter in the brain; increasing self-awareness and positive thoughts; decreasing pain and inflammation; increasing social connections and emotional intelligence; decreasing feelings of loneliness; improving ability to regulate emotions, and increasing compassion for self and others.
Students will learn about and participate in a variety of breathwork exercises, different types of meditation practices, and yoga vinyasa flows. Students will start with learning the basics in all three areas and advance after that. Discussions regarding the foundations of these practices, reasons for them, the history of them and their cultural connections will be topics of discussion as well.
Yoga club will meet once a week for 45 minutes on Wednesday afternoons from 3:15-4:00 in Ms. Dickson’s classroom (room 29). Fourth and fifth grade students will meet on the second Wednesday of each month starting Wednesday, January 15. Sixth through eighth grade students will meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month starting on Wednesday, January 29. An attached document with the schedule is included. Students will exit at door #4 at the end of the practice.
Students should wear comfortable, athletic clothes, bring water, and bring their own mat if they would like. There are some mats available for students to use as well, and mats can be stored in Ms. Dickson’s classroom. If you have any questions, please email Ms. Dickson at [email protected].
Looking forward to our first practice!
Ms. Dickson
Students will learn about and participate in a variety of breathwork exercises, different types of meditation practices, and yoga vinyasa flows. Students will start with learning the basics in all three areas and advance after that. Discussions regarding the foundations of these practices, reasons for them, the history of them and their cultural connections will be topics of discussion as well.
Yoga club will meet once a week for 45 minutes on Wednesday afternoons from 3:15-4:00 in Ms. Dickson’s classroom (room 29). Fourth and fifth grade students will meet on the second Wednesday of each month starting Wednesday, January 15. Sixth through eighth grade students will meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month starting on Wednesday, January 29. An attached document with the schedule is included. Students will exit at door #4 at the end of the practice.
Students should wear comfortable, athletic clothes, bring water, and bring their own mat if they would like. There are some mats available for students to use as well, and mats can be stored in Ms. Dickson’s classroom. If you have any questions, please email Ms. Dickson at [email protected].
Looking forward to our first practice!
Ms. Dickson
