Yoga
Holding a yoga pose quietly asks the child to sense their body from the inside, and that takes practice. The cards below lay out the positions in an order that leaves room to settle between each one.
♂Yoga
A boy is sitting in a yoga pose with crossed legs and hands on his knees.
♂Yoga in lotus pose
A man sits cross-legged in the lotus pose with his eyes closed and his hands resting open to the sides.
♀Yoga in tree pose
A woman stands on one leg on a round mat with her foot against her thigh and her hands together above her head.
About this visual support
Slowing down is not a decision a child can simply make. For many kids it is an active skill: noticing where the legs are, how the shoulders sit, whether the belly moves with the breath. Yoga makes this concrete, but only if each pose is allowed to linger long enough for the body to answer back.
Visual support helps by fixing a clear order. When the child can see that four poses remain instead of an unknown number, staying in the current one gets easier. The picture also gives them something to look at that is not you, which lowers the sense of performance and lets them copy at their own speed. A practical move that tends to work: decide in advance how long each pose lasts – three calm breaths, for example – and point at the card during that time instead of counting out loud.
Inside Routined you can place the yoga sequence as a step in the bedtime or after-school routine, so the same poses come back in the same order and the body starts to know what is coming next.
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