• Invite students to lie on their backs and dim the lights. Ask them to focus on breathing (in through the nose and out through the mouth), relax into the ground and give your weight over to the floor.
  • Ask students to explore working with body parts one at a time (e.g. leg, then other leg, arm, other arm, hips, rib cage, shoulders, head etc). Coach students to move body part in the air, on the ground, make it bigger, make it smaller, etc).
  • Explore moving with the whole body, slowly make your way into child’s pose. Rest there for a moment and breathe.
  • Tuck toes under and come into a crouch.
  • Straighten legs and let upper body hang. Continue to breathe.
  • Slowly roll up one vertebrae at a time until in a standing position.
  • Imagine you are a puppet and have strings attached to your elbows.
  • Slowly imagine someone is pulling the strings up.
  • Your elbows (but nothing else) are pulled up.
  • Now imagine just wrists are being pulled up.
  • Now just fingers.
  • Now imagine someone cuts the string attaching the fingers and they drop, now wrists, now elbows.