Storytime™ Yoga for Kids Asana Corner: Tree Pose

Storytime Yoga for Kids Vrksasana (Tree Pose)

Kids Yoga Asana Corner with the Queen of Bohemia:
Tree Pose, Vrksasana

Imagine that your body is a tree. You are part of the Earth. Stand tall, and root your feet in the earth. Get up on your tippy toes, take a deep breath and reach your arms and hands for the sky. Then exhale, lower your feet down, and bring your hands into your heart space in anjali mudra.

This tree is you, from which your whole world pours out through your body and branches and blooms your talents into the world of creation. With every breath, you are breathing in and out your world. Your thoughts and attitudes about your world is shaping your world too. What are you thinking about?

Now, feel your feet in the earth, rooted firmly and secure. Notice your legs, firm and forming the base of your tree's trunk. Your belly and chest area grow the trunk taller and your arms are the branches, radiating outward.

Find a little spot on the floor to focus on. Place one foot on the ground. Breathe in and then breathe out. Visualize roots spreading downward into the earth with the exhalation. With hands in your heart space, slowly grow, grow grow with the opposite foot and leg and place it wherever you can - be it your ankle, calf, or up high on your thigh.

Think of something that you are really good at. Are you a kind friend? Helpful around the house? Do you make people smile? Can you make music or run fast? What do you like to do?

Inhale. Reach your hands up into the sky above your head, spread your arms' - they are your branches. Exhale and visualize yourself spreading the beauty of YOU and your SPECIAL GIFT out to the world. See yourself blooming in the world. Breathe in again, exhale and spread your roots deep down in the Earth, connected, safe.