Yoga cycle 5 2010

Greetings Yogi's

Go to yogajournal click on the poses category. If an advertisement comes up click the x in the upper right corner to get rid of it. You will find the following categories: seated and twist, standing, backbends, forward bends, restorative, pranayama (breathing), and mediations.

Click on each category, and find one yoga pose that is right for you in each category. In your notebook, or on a piece of paper you are going to tell me the name, how to do the pose breathing, or meditation and the benefits.

What did you learn? How do you demonstrate the practice on your own? How can you use it in your life? How will it be helpful to you?

Send me an email at nicolewestside@gmail.com with a summery of what you learned today in class. Make the subject of your email (your first and last name and the period of yoga 2 or 5).

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?

Dating abuse quiz

1.  Take the Quiz Dating Abuse Fact or Fiction  How did you score?  What did you learn?  What did you agree with?  What did you disagree with?

2.  Read Healthy vs unhealthy relationships.  What is the difference? Compare and Contrast the two.  Give a real life example. 

3.  From the same website give three statistics that you learned.

4.  Go to teen dating facts.  Which five statistics are the most shocking and alarming to you?

5.  What numbers can a teen call for help if they are victims of sexual abuse?  Dating violence?  physical abuse?  Crisis Hotline  Put those numbers in your cell phone if you have one. 

Teen Dating Violence

What is dating violence? Have you ever experienced it? What does it look like? What does it sound like?

These are the questions we will be investigating over the next week. Today each of you will post comments on my blog instead of writing on your own blogs.

We only have ten days of school left. Make sure you get all of your work turned in, and make up your sexual anatomy test if you have not taken it yet.

1. Go to Love is Respect and watch the video by clicking on the triangle in the pink graffitti on the top left side of the page. Answer the question.. What is love?
2. On the same page sign the petition "Moms and Dads for education to stop teen dating abuse."
3. What does abuse look like and sound like to be abused? Go to Is This Abuse? and answer the f0llowing questions in your own words. After you answer each question in your own words based on the information from the website tell the reader whether you agree or disagree and why.
a. Are you being abused?
b. Are you an abuser ?
c. Which "real life" story is the most realistic?
d. What makes a healthy relationship?
e. What facts about dating abuse surprised you the most?
f. Based on everything you learned what does dating abuse look like, sound like, and feel like?

Why Do Girls Have Sex?

1.  Read the different stories about why girls have sex in your packet, Why do Girls Have Sex? from the book called Virgin Sex for Girls.

2.  Which story did you like the best?  Why?

3.  What are the names of the characters?  

4.  Write a four sentence summary of what happened in the story.

5.  What would you have done if you were the girl in this story?  Why?

Post your answers to these questions on your blog.  You should write in complete sentences so that the reader knows what you are talking about without reading the questions above.  Start your story with a sentence similar to, "I read the chapter Why Do Girls Have Sex? in the book titled, Virgin Sex for Girls.  My favorite story was........."

If you did not finish the assignment about female anatomy do so now.  You may also use it to review for your test on Friday.