High School Yoga

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jagex8
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October 10, 2014 at 2:43 am

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#2656

Hello guys,
for my high school there has been talk of all the clubs/sports having like a club showcase.
I’m the president of the yoga club here (not the teacher) and I could use some help for ideas.
For example, the classics club will have a chariot race, games club would probably bring in a xbox. Basketball might have a 3 pt shoot off Etc.

I’ve been given the assignment of coming up with something that would appeal to high school students when this fair takes place and that’s unique to yoga. ([strong](all boys school)[/strong]) and of course fun. But I’m stuck.
Again I’m not the teacher.
Thanks guys.

P.S. Coordinator says it doesn’t have to be competition based like the chariot race example, just appealing.

bunni
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October 14, 2014 at 9:07 am

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#11089

My first thought was to have people demonstrating poses, but I’m not sure how engaging that would be.

I don’t know WHAT made me think of this, but what about a yoga inspired game of twister? You could designate certain poses for each member of your club on a twister mat and then complicate them in hilarious ways by letting passers by spin the wheel and call out “left hand red!” and the like. Is that totally ridiculous? I would watch it!

mzsocialworker1
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October 14, 2014 at 11:46 am

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#11090

I like the above ideas or maybe just having a mini class to inspire others to participate.

uohud
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October 15, 2014 at 3:13 am

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#11092

I saw this while observing a kids yoga class…

“Yoga Jenga” Taken from http://yogainmyschool.com/useful-and-fun-yoga-games-yoga-jenga/

Take a jenga game and write a different pose on each block. I took inspiration from the 60 poses included in Once Upon a Pose writing the English pose name on one side and the French name of the other thereby creating a bilingual game (the name in Sanskrit, Spanish, German, etc. would be equally as effective – See Language Learning Thru Yoga). Have a couple of kids set up the game by stacking three blocks across three blocks until a tower is formed. Choose a child to carefully remove a jenga block. Perform the yoga pose written on the block. You can place the block back on to the top of the jenga tower in order for it to continue to build. If you don’t want to repeat any poses during the class simply place the used jenga blocks off to one side. As well we more often than not simply run out of time long before the tower comes down. Choose another child and repeat until all children have had a turn, class is over, or the tower falls over.
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