Yoga + Mindfulness Lesson Plans combine yoga, mindfulness exercises and storytelling. These lessons are designed to help your students connect their minds, bodies, and hearts and teach valuable social-emotional skills.

Studies have shown that yoga and mindfulness practice leads to:

• increased ability to concentrate and focus
• decreased stress levels
• improved mood
  

This lesson plan will include all the tools you need to teach an interactive 60-minute yoga class.

This lesson's book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? By Carol McCloud

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Overview

Inspired by the heartwarming book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today?, you’ll encourage positive behavior such as daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Help children grasp concepts such as ‘bucket filling’ and ‘dipping’ as a way of understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well-being of others and ourselves.

Help your students practice:

- kindness

- positive action

- helpfulness

- creativity

- flexibility

- mindfulness

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Included in THIS resource…

Each lesson will include:

• a list of all required materials needed
• the seven parts of the lesson guide explaining the details of each section taught
• the print out worksheet of the three mudras used and information about each mudra
• the breath deck card (front & back), including the illustrated picture from the card and detailed information on the breath practice being utilized
• video example of the sun salutation yoga flow
• free access to the meditation (what we call the Yoga Nap) that will help to reiterate the theme of each lesson
• step-by-step instructions to a creative expression activity (often an art project) that incorporates the theme of each mindfulness lesson
• a visual worksheet of yoga poses used in the lesson