Beacon after-school program gets into Asana groove

Beacon's Monthly newsletter featured the Yoga sessions at I.S 204.

I was welcomed back to Intermediate School 204 the last few weeks for more yoga and meditation.

Back in April, I introduced yoga and meditation to many students at that school, as part of the City Year after school program. 

This time around, leadership and development specialist for Beacon, Ms. Kaychell, invited me back. The students moved, breathed and relaxed their way into varying yoga postures. 

During the sessions, I grounded the students early in the practice, facilitating their active engagement in breathe control and relaxing the body and mind. We then moved into "heat building" poses to wake-up and invigorate the body. The ensuing poses were balancing asanas to dive deeply into their focus and enhance their body awareness. 

At the close of each practice, a few minutes of silence, in savasana (corpse pose), left the students in internal bliss. 

The smiles on their faces and the effort put into engaging in these poses were outstanding. 

The mats provided were cut out of fabric from MFTA (Materials for the Arts). 

Students from varying schools attended these sessions at I.S 204, including P.S 112 & I.S 126. 

I would like to extend a special thanks to everyone involved and to those that initiated these great afternoons. I'll definitely see all of you again in the Spring. 

Can't wait to see the staff and the students, and their beautiful smiles.

Peace & love,
Victor 

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Students in Savasana at the end of our final Yoga session in October.