Yoga for Kids – Asana or Activity

Breathing Technique

As we come into summer we will need to find ways to cool our body down.  This is a great breath that will help you and your child or your students to calm their body down and keep cool.  This breath is similar to what dogs do when they overheat.  Similar to their panting however we focus more on a slow sipping breath in through the mouth and out through the nose.

Cooling Breath

This particular breath helps the body cool down and calms the body if they get angry.

Have them sit in sitting positing and stick their tongues out.

Have them curl their tongue into a funnel – some people cannot do this so explain that some tongues are unable to do this.

Have them sip in through their tongue then close their mouth and breathe out through their nose.

Note – breathing out through the nose may be a little hard at first.  Keep encouraging them to breathe out through the nose.

Recipe

Before we give you our receipe today I thought I would share a great website I found.  http://www.supercook.com/

On this website you can enter in what ingredients you have and it will give you a recipe.  How cool!! You can even tell it to exclude recipes with nuts, meat, fish and a whole heap of other items.

Solution solved on what’s for dinner. J

Yoghurt Pops

Ingredients:

• 1 8-oz. container of your favorite flavor of yogurt

Utensils:

• small paper cups
• wooden popsicle sticks (available in craft stores)
• plastic wrap

Directions:

1. Pour yogurt into paper cups. Fill them almost to the top.
2. Stretch a small piece of plastic wrap across the top of each cup.
3. Using the popsicle stick, poke a hole in the plastic wrap. Stand the stick straight up in the center of the cup.
4. Put the cups in the freezer until the yogurt is frozen solid.
5. Remove the plastic wrap, peel away the paper cup, and eat your pop!

Serves: 3 to 4

Serving size: 1 pop

127 Calories
5 g protien
2 g fat
21 g carbohydrate
0 g fiber
7 mg cholesterol
73 mg sodium
262 mg calcium
0 mg iron

Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.

Variations and suggestions:
If you like, you can make this recipe using plastic ice-pop molds instead of the paper cups and popsicle sticks.

For a cool-looking snack, fill your cups only halfway with one flavor of yogurt in Step 1. Follow Steps 2, 3, and 4. Remove your pops from the freezer, take off the plastic wrap, and spoon in another flavor of yogurt that's a different color. Put the plastic wrap back on and freeze once more. When your pops are frozen, you'll have two-colored treats!