A note from the author;

This ebook contains traditional yoga asana with non traditional names to appeal to the younger yogis. The sequence is designed to give children a bit of exercise with their story time, in addition to a little bit of science. The exercises take you from ‘seed’ position, similar to child’s pose, all the way to a very tall ‘tree’ pose, also known as vrksasana in sanskrit. The seasons are like mini sun salutations for children, to go in between the asana that have been placed in a specific order to conform with safe, healthy and fun yoga.

I do hope you enjoy this story and sequence with your little yogis as I have with mine.

Sat Nam,

Jodie Taylorwww.fullmoonyoga.org

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

To Tillie, Charles and Julia

...My life’s greatest teachers.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

First we started off in Butterfly, feet together and wings in the sky.

Flip flap fluttering your breathing and your wings,shoulders rolled back, let’s get a move on things!

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The butterfly flies off, after pollinating the flower,out falls a tiny seed, within it is tremendous power.

Knees and feet to the floor, chest to your thighs, head grounded, make your body into a tiny seed, breathing deeply, back rounded.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

In spring, a sprout springs from the ground, raise your chest up slowly, without making a sound.

Heart forward with head to the sky, grounded through your lower legs and thigh.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

With time, sun and water feeding, the sprout becomes a healthy seedling.

Raise your hips up and ground your lower legs like lead,raise your hands in prayer position up above your head.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The seasons come and go....

The winter unfolds, rest your head on your knees.

The spring jumps up,spring as high as you please.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

In summer, we stretch our limits, reach way up to the sun.

In fall, we come down slowly, to rest up from all the fun.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

Along comes a dog, to the seedling, making a sniffing sound, raise your tail, legs and arms stretched, four paws on the ground.

Heels towards the earth and hips towards the sky, his masters the warriors also came by.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

Master one is a great warrior gardener of the lands, bend your front knee, back leg straight and raise up your hands.

Front foot points forward and back one to the side, shoulders rolled back, your hips stretched wide.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The dog’s second master is Warrior II, he’s a gardener too, arms stretched opposite sides, to the front and back of you.

With leg stance wide, front foot forward and rooted, breathe in deeply, with back leg firmly footed.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

Before Warriors one and two on the other leg, balance on your side, Make your body into a half moon, reaching your arms out wide.

One foot and hand to the ground, before the seasons come,the other hand to the sky, and other foot pointing back some.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The seasons come and go....

The winter unfolds, rest your head on your knees.

The spring jumps up,spring as high as you please.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

In summer, we stretch our limits, reach way up to the sun.

In fall, we come down slowly, to rest up from all the fun.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

A little tree comes to be, the seedling grows by eighty and a half,one foot rooted into the ground, one foot at your inner calf.

Hand in front of your chest in prayer, shoulders rolled back, breathing clean tree air.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

From little to big tree, root one foot in the ground, raise your arms like branches, wave them around.

Bend your other leg and raise your heel up high, place the bottom of your foot to your thigh.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

Gently put your foot down and hang your head low,take a rest in forward fold and stretch your fingers to your toes.

After a few breathes when you are ready for more fun, do little and big tree on the other side, then balancing work is done.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The seasons come and go...

The winter unfolds, rest your head on your knees.

The spring jumps up,spring as high as you please.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

In summer, we stretch our limits, reach way up to the sun.

In fall, we come down slowly, to rest up from all the fun.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

One spring after the tree has grown very tall, a bud grows on a branch after winter, but before fall.

Sitting on the ground, hugging your knees to your chest, make your body small and round, take a bit of rest.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

A flower blooms from the bud, sitting on the tree, hands under your calves, feet together and elbows under knees.

Balance on your tail and keep your breathing steady, next is the butterfly who will come by when the flower is ready.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

Hands to your shoulders, breathing deeply while seated, feet together at the soles, your body is now heated.

The butterfly returned to help make a new seed, seated with back straight there is now just one more page to read.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The butterfly flaps off, the flower petals fall, once again you are a seed, tiny and small.

With the help of brave warriors, seasons, and dogs, the seed will become a big tree, making clean air,... or logs.

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence

The End.

...Or let’s do it again!

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thank you for doing some yoga today!

From Seed to Tree: A Children’s Yoga Sequence