Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II) Open the back toes out for Warrior II. From Vrksasana, step your lifted leg back to a Lunge Pose. While certain grounding techniques or yoga poses may not be effective for everyone, finding a few go-to skills that can keep you from feeling burnt out is key to awareness. Tree Pose (Vrksasana) Keep your hands at your waist and concentrate on grounding into your standing foot as your spine lifts. What’s more, a 2015 found that a particular type of grounding, called “Earthing,” where you quite literally sit on the bare ground, had a positive impact on mood. As Psychology Today reported, different coping skills - such as mindfulness, spending time in nature, or writing - can help ground you if you’re feeling out-of-touch with yourself. Grounding is a technique that is also commonly suggested by mental health professionals. Instead, “Being grounded is about refocusing our energy in a downward direction.” We’re thinking, stressing, worrying, wondering, imagining, ultimately it means we’re directing our energy upwards.” She says that spending so much time in your head can exacerbate anxiety. 'As humans, we spend many hours in our heads. It’s actually a very important concept when it comes to our overall health and wellbeing,' Kelsey Ravlich, a yoga teacher based in Calgary, Canada, who's featured on the Livekick fitness app, tells Bustle via email. “The idea of feeling ‘grounded’ isn’t just yoga teacher speak. Whether you’re at home, or even on your lunch break, there are grounding yoga poses that’ll help you feel more aware of your body you can try. When you begin to feel disconnected, bringing yourself back to Earth, so to speak, can alleviate some of that everyday stress and stop the pattern of overthinking.

This can lead to feeling like you’re on autopilot or out-of-tune with your body. We do a few more poses on our tummies for littler kids (baby shark is super popular, of course!).When life gets hectic and overwhelming, it’s difficult not to get stuck in your head - overthinking if your Slack to your boss was sufficiently casual, obsessing over having to go to another brunch with tier three friends, and so on. Dragon and Monkey are great for prepping for the splits (they like to know that fact!). I often add in trickier poses like Boat and Bridge when I know that they are ready for it. There is some repetition in there and switching sides. Here’s an example of a yoga sequence I do with my students every day: I include most of the poses in a traditional Sun Salutation B, and then I add more according to their age, abilities, and attention. It’s super fun and they always feel so proud! So what poses can you use in a yoga flow sequence for kids? Once we get really good at the Flow as a whole class, I start to let other kids lead too. I add in some balance poses, some trickier poses that need explaining, and I often give kids a chance to add in what they would like to do as well. We move fast, breathing the whole time, and then we start to slow down. When I teach kids using a Yoga Flow, I go through the whole sequence a couple of times pretty quickly.

I have since fined tuned the yoga sequence and practice quite a bit, but I am super happy with how it has evolved, and also stayed quite the same over time. That’s what got me moving when I was having trouble staying focused, I figured I’d try it out with my students. Finally, I realized I needed to create that same sense of rhythm, flow, and movement of energy that I loved in my yoga classes. When I started teaching kids yoga in a charter school 5 years ago I had the hardest time getting kids to stop talking, stop wandering, stop worrying and feeling anxious, and just start moving. When I do vinyasa yoga as an adult attending class, I notice that I think less about things that are worrying me, and focus more on my movement and breath. A Yoga Flow is sometimes referred to as a vinyasa style of yoga (vinyasa means flow in Sanskrit).

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