kids Yoga Stories: Yamas and Niyamas Yoga Cards for Kids

Use yoga poses to teach about Yamas and Niyamas!

This set of Yamas and Niyamas Yoga Cards for Kids will help your students learn through movement either at home, in the classroom, or in a studio.

For each Yama and Niyama you are provided:

• a question (thoughts)

• mantra (words)

• yoga pose (actions)

Yamas and Niyamas Yoga Cards for Kids is divided into Outward Behavior (Yamas) and Inward Behavior (Niyamas):

Outward Behavior How we behave toward others

Inward Behavior How we care for ourselves

Included in this deck:

- A card with an index

- Tips to teach yoga

- 10 cards illustrating the yoga poses

- 10 matching description cards

- Instructions for all the poses

The index indicates the order in which the yoga poses are to be used to flow from one pose to the next. There is multicultural representation featured in yoga kids!

Recommended for ages 3+

Ways in which you can use these cards as homeschoolers or in the classroom include:

-For transition times

• -Morning routines or circle times

• -Brain breaks to calm their minds and bodies

• -Physical education

• -Occupational and/or physical therapy

• -With one child, small, or large groups

Benefits of Yoga for kids include:

-Increased strength

-Increased flexibility

-Improves sleep

-Promotes positive interactions amongst adults and children

-Develops self-confidence

-Improves self-expression

-Improves body awareness

-Promotes a lifestyle that is active and healthy.

A total of 49 pages