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Kids Yoga Stories: Yoga Moves for Transition Times

Yoga pose cards for quick transition breaks: 35 single-pose prompts such as 'stretch up like a giraffe' or 'surf the waves', each linked to its formal pose name.
Grades
Preschool–3, Elementary
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
P.E. & Health, Yoga
Topic
kids yoga stories, yoga moves
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Use Yoga Moves for Transition Times!

This set of Yoga Moves for Transition Times will help your students learn through movement and ease into transitions either at home, in the classroom, or in a studio.

Included in this deck of Yoga Moves for Transition Times

- A card with an index

- Tips to teach yoga

- 35 cards illustrating the yoga poses and their corresponding description

- 4 categories: animal, nature, fantasy land, and action

- 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 4+

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.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Perform simple yoga poses from a pictured or spoken prompt

Skills covered

  • Body control — holding single poses such as Warrior 2 and Extended Mountain

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