Animal Yoga: A Different Perspective

If you want to use the poster differently, you can use the yoga poses on the outside of the disc, the balloons on the border of the poster or the coloured circle with repetitions (see variations).

The following games can also be played with this educational poster:

• Animal Yoga: Animal for All
• Animal Yoga: Spin and imitate

This game is part of the toolkit ‘Facing trauma - A toolkit on trauma-informed support for children and youth’. This toolkit is a cooperation between StreetSmart, Minor-Ndako, Save the Children Romania & SolidarityNow, cofinanced by the European Union. It provides simple tools to explore important topics like trauma, stress, self-care and emotions in a way that’s easy to use with different target groups.

• Different yoga poses are depicted outside the disc. Turn the arrow and imitate the animal pose it points to.
• On the border of the poster, you can find a breathing exercise that corresponds with the yoga poses. You can use the balloons to guide the inhaling and exhaling of breath. Begin from the bottom left and indicate the balloons with your finger in a clockwise direction, modelling how the players should breathe (deep and slow inhale - hold the breath - slow exhale - hold - repeat). For each step, you can count four balloons (4 for inhaling - 4 to hold - 4 for exhaling – 4 to hold).
• If you would like to level up further, you can play with repetitions. Spin the arrow a second time and look at the number of dots shown in the coloured circle. Then, starting from a standing position with the hands on the side of the body, the players repeat the position, finishing by returning to the starting position and repeating as many times as indicated by the dots.

Enhance spatial awareness and visual perception skills