Discover How to Make a Yoga Hurdle:
Are you ready to learn how to play the Yoga Hurdle Game? I am Sara Weis with Go Go Yoga for Kids and we are talking about fun yoga games that you can easily teach and play with children!
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Yoga Hurdles is the name of the game that I am going to teach you today. This has been hands down such a favorite of the kids lately in my yoga classes!
Yoga Hurdles is found in this book Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Games & Activities for Children. This book includes over 150 games, partner games, breathing exercises, teamwork, group challenges, mindful games. This game is in the Active Movement Game chapter.
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It is important in yoga to talk about with kids how it’s not just about holding the poses and being still and quiet during yoga. It is also about getting your heart pumping and feeling good and burning off some energy. The Yoga Hurdle Game will get that energy going for sure!
Here’s how you play Yoga Hurdles.
As the kids if they know what a hurdle is. Ask if they have seen them at a track and field event.
Today in this game they are going to be the human hurdles! This means that they are going to become hurdles themselves!
The kids sit facing a partner and they put their legs out and feet to feet so it creates a hurdle. Now with younger kids this is enough and it is a good stretch. With older kids you can make varied heights of the hurdles. You don’t have to go super high but you are making a hurdle.
Then the kids also take turns running over the yoga hurdles. They have to be mindful and careful when doing this. Our Human Hurdles need to be still and quiet as well. The kids have a lot of fun with this.
This game can easily be changed up and you can make it into a relay or you can make it into a race.
Another way to change it up is by not having the kids be partners but instead they are sitting in a circle.
We have pictures on our website with examples from our Yoga Hurdle Game:
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Yoga Hurdle Variation:
The kids lie in a circle with their heads pointed in the center of the circle. One child at a time moves around the circle hopping over the yoga hurdles
This variation can be a little more vulnerable for kids. You need to talk about being safe and careful and all of that. When you have the yoga hurdles like this it ups the safety. That is how you play Yoga Hurdles. It’s a fun way, give it a try with your kids for sure.
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