Early Release Weds - 10 week series - April 1 through June 10th

*no class April 15 due to SPS Spring Break

When we’re connected to the shift in seasons, we can connect with transitions in ourselves. Children will practice body awareness through easeful yoga poses(asanas), in a noncompetitive, inclusive outdoor environment. We’ll enjoy the abundance of urban nature that surrounds us in our beautiful city of Seattle and in the neighborhood of Queen Anne. Your kids can expect, crafting, learning about plant life cycles, sharing stories, singing songs, seed collecting, harvesting, fall gardening, observing animal behavior and more all outdoors! In-turn discovering their own unique ways of being as they transit through hard and not so hard situations that life hands them. All while having fun emerging in the new Spring air.

Children will use their imaginations to go on adventures in pollination. They’ll play games that help them understand how fruits and berries grow and become the food we enjoy so much and how nourishing they are to our bodies.

Inspired by How to be a Moonflower by Kate Daisy, children will discover the world of lunar gardening, nocturnal, crepuscular and diurnal animals, full moon blooming flowers, the moon and sun cycle and how we can feel this in our bodies with yoga poses. Digging into soil with hand magnifyers will help them see who lives below the surface.

The Earth provides an huge beautiful water cycle. We’ll explore how it provides life for all of nature in creative, fun ways that bring it to alive in our yoga bodies and use magnifying tools to see life in the soil, on leaves, stems, flowers and in rain drops.

Each color of the rainbow has it’s own unique story to share. Energy centers in our bodies, chakras, each have their own stories as well. Children will be guided through the connection of feelings, foods, asana (yoga poses) and thoughts that can help ignite their rainbow power.

When we’re connected to our hearts, we can connect with all hearts. Children will practice heart centered yoga poses(asanas), share stories, songs, dance or tell jokes, in turn discover their own unique ways of radiating. All while identifying what’s shining bright in the p-patch.

Nature is full of musical sounds like beats, drums, claps, rhythms, skips and snaps. Sometimes we hear whispers on the wind and other times we hear crescendoing caws from tree tops. Children will connect with our environment’s musical magic and find their own too!