La Perla Garden and 5th Period Yogi's

Greetings Yogi's..............Happy Wednesday -

Thank you for coming to school today in the rain. You all get extra credit for being here today, listening well, completing your work, and doing your best.

Please welcome Robert, and thank him for volunteering his time with us to share the garden and teach us interesting lessons.

Websites we may use today. ( Do not open your browser to any other website during this class or points will be taken off your daily grade. )

Homework
Please remember to complete your homework that is listed below this posting. If you have any homework on paper for this week please bring it to me so I can sign it. Thanks, Nicole

Websites
La Perla Garden

Peace Cubes

Gandhi -King Season

Yoga Homework Week one Cycle 3 12/7-12/11

Greetings Yogi's

Here is this week's homework assignments for Yoga. Homework is worth 20% of your grade. It can make up for days when you are absent, or sit out. Homework is required in this class. There is not enough time to cover all of the Yoga Information and practice during school time.

Homework assignment # 1 Monday December 7th 2009

Click on benefits of yoga

What are the physical and mental benefits of yoga? list and write in your own words. Do not copy

a. What is yoga? Give a description. What are the different kinds?

b. What are the benefits of yoga? How can it help your physical body?

How can it help you improve your mental and spiritual self?

What do you hope to gain from your Yoga practice in this cycle?

Homework Assignment # 2

Tuesday December 8th, 2009

Click On Yoga Teens for help researching the answers.

What is Hatha Yoga?

What are the different types? List them and give a one sentence description of each type of Hatha Yoga

Homework Assignment # 3

Weds December 9th, 2009

Email me the answers to the following questions. nicolewestside@gmail.com

The subject is .........your name (Nicole Riley), the period that you are in Yoga 2 or 5

I want us to start practicing our emails as we were writing to a professor or to the boss at our job?

Example : Nicole Riley HW assignment 1/1 period 5

1. Your full name
2. Advisor/ Family Group/ Fourth Period Teacher
3. Parent/// Guardian
4. Who do you live with? List all people in the house?
5. Where do you live?
6. Last school attended
7. Reason for coming to West Side?
8. List all of the classes you passed last cycle

• • AM/PM_________
  • 2nd
  • 3rd
  • 4th FG
  • 5th and so on. What do your grades look like? What gets in your way of passing classes? What helps you to pass classes?9Do you have a current Physical to evaluate your heath for physical exercise in your class folder?

The subject is .........your name (Nicole Riley), the period that you are in Yoga 2 or 5

example Subject of my email looks like this .... Nicole Riley 5th Yoga

Homework Assignment # 4

Thursday Dec. 10th

Create a list of 10 stretches and exercise that can be done without any equipment. We are going to create a 10 minute daily exercise routine for the class. Number the exercises and draw a stick figure picture of the exercise if you don't know the name.

1. Crunches

2.

3. and all the way to 10. Its ok to use exercises you don't know the name of.

Homework Assignment # 5

Friday Dec. 11th

Meditate at home-

• Find a quiet place where you can be alone.
• Spend 15 minutes doing a breathing meditation
• Lay in Savasana (Corpse Pose), or sit in our crossed leg position.
• Play soothing soft music of you wish
• Repeat a mantra to yourself and use that to center yourself
• Practice breathing inhale deeply through the nose and exhale completely through the nose
• Count your breath to ten
• Notice the thoughts in your mind, but let them pass by like clouds in the sky and focus your attention back to counting your breath.
• You may want to set an alarm for 15 minutes so you can finish

Complete the following reflection questions about your meditation (you may write them or email them to me.) Label it assignment #5

1. Where exactly did you lay or sit when you did your meditation
2. What day was it? What time was it?
3. What mantra did you use to center yourself?
4. What distractions got in your way of meditating?
5. What did you notice about your thoughts while you were meditating?
6. What did you notice about your physical body?
7. Why is it important to meditate?
8. How does it benefit you?