What is Yoga?
Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines which originated in ancient India. Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophical traditions. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Benefits of Yoga
There are many benefits for participants in yoga. These include:
Improve flexibility, strength, and posture.
Daily yoga practice will help stretch and tone your body muscles. Popular poses like plank will simultaneously work on strengthening your arms, legs, shoulders and abdominals. You don't have to be super flexible to practice yoga, the beauty of yoga is that it can be practiced at all levels of ability.
Improve overall fitness.
There are a variety of yoga styles that can be used to improve your overall fitness that include fast and hot yoga.
Breath better.
Practicing your breathing and learning to breathe more effectively is all part of the yoga philosophy.
Become more mindful.
Yoga develops your skills of focus and allows you to concentrate on yourself and become aware of your feelings and emotions.
Proactivity Yoga Programs align with the Victorian Curriculum
In a 4-week Proactivity Yoga program, the students will be focusing and developing their physical, mental, emotional, and psychological health. The student-centered Yoga programs will be closely linked to the curriculum and across many areas. We delve into real-life experiences and scenarios that they may experience in their day-to-day lives and give them strategies and coping mechanisms to use in times of stress, worry, sadness, anger, and fear. This allows the students to be aware of how their feelings can shape their thoughts, and how their thoughts can shape their actions. In each new week, we revisit the previous week and the new week brings a new focus and a new learning intention and theme of the class.
In this 4 week program we delve into the following:
- Emotional regulation for their feelings, emotions, and thoughts
- Breath techniques to support their emotions and productivity
- Journal prompts and activities
- Easy to understand meditation techniques
- Positive affirmations, which create metaphysical changes in the brain
- Relaxation techniques to help them come into a state of calm, peace, and focus
- The physical movement of yoga shapes which could improve posture, sleep issues, stress
- Bring them into their parasympathetic nervous system for rest and digest during relaxation, meditation, and breathwork
- Allow the students to feel empowered by getting them to reflect, ask questions and provide reflection to the group
- Take home tasks or things they can do to improve their mental and physical wellbeing
Curriculum links and program details
Primary School
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Foundation
Moving the body
Practise fundamental movement skills and movement sequences using different body parts and in response to stimuli in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings.
Participate in games with and without equipment.
Learning through movement
Use trial and error to test solutions to movement challenges.
Years 1 & 2
Moving the body
Construct and perform imaginative and original movement sequences in response to stimuli.
Understanding movement
Discuss the body’s reactions to participating in physical activities.
Incorporate elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in performing simple movement sequences.
Learning through movement
Propose a range of alternatives and test their effectiveness when solving movement challenges.
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Years 3 & 4
Moving the body
Perform movement sequences which link fundamental movement skills.
Practise and apply movement concepts and strategies.
Understanding movement
Examine the benefits of physical activity and physical fitness to health and wellbeing.
Combine the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people when performing movement sequences.
Learning through movement
Adopt inclusive practices when participating in physical activities.
Years 5 & 6
Moving the body
Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in different movement situations in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings.
Understanding movement
Participate in physical activities designed to enhance fitness, and discuss the impact of regular participation on health and wellbeing.
Manipulate and modify the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences.
Learning through movement
Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities.
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Secondary School
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Years 7 & 8
Moving the body
Use feedback to improve body control and coordination when performing specialised movement skills.
Compose and perform movement sequences for specific purposes in a variety of contexts.
Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies.
Understanding movement
Participate in physical activities that develop health-related and skill-related fitness components.
Demonstrate and explain how the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people can enhance performance.
Learning through movement
Practise and apply personal and social skills when undertaking a range of roles in physical activities.
Years 9 & 10
Moving the body
Perform and refine specialised movement skills in challenging movement situations.
Develop, implement and evaluate movement concepts and strategies for successful outcomes.
Understanding movement
Analyse the impact of effort, space, time, objects and people when composing and performing movement sequences.
Learning through movement
Transfer understanding from previous movement experiences to create solutions to movement challenges.
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Capabilities: Personal & Social
Self-Awareness and Management
- This strand involves students in identifying and describing the factors that influence their emotional responses.
- Students develop the knowledge and skills to regulate, manage and monitor their emotions.
- They develop a realistic sense of their personal strengths and have a realistic assessment of their own achievements and a sense of self-knowledge and self-confidence.
- They identify personal characteristics and interpret their own emotional states, needs and perspectives.
- Students develop skills to work independently and to show initiative, learning to be conscientious, delaying gratification and persevering in the face of setbacks and frustrations.
Social Awareness and Management
- This strand involves students recognising others’ feelings and knowing how and when to assist others.
- Students learn to show respect for and understand others’ perspectives, emotional states and needs.
- They learn to participate in positive, safe and respectful relationships, defining and accepting individual and group roles and responsibilities.
- Students gain an understanding of the role of advocacy in contemporary society and build their capacity to critique societal constructs and forms of discrimination.
- This strand involves students interacting effectively and respectfully with a range of adults and peers.
- Students learn to negotiate with others; work in teams, positively contribute to groups and collaboratively make decisions; develop leadership skills, resolve conflict and reach positive outcomes.
- Students develop the ability to initiate and manage successful personal relationships.
Contact our team today and discuss with our team the needs of your students and school. We can adapt our programs to suit the many different environments of schools.