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BodyLogique® Program Objectives & Standards
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Public School Phys Ed Standards:
- Balance while bending and stretching.
- Recognize that skill development requires practice.
- Identify various body parts and their location.
- Create movements using different body parts.
- Discuss the connection between food, nutrition and energy.
- Develop responsibility for expected behavior on the playground & in the class room.
- Stretch basic muscle groups.
- Co-ordinate individually, with a partner or in a group.
- Understand how the body functions as a whole.
- Recognize and appreciate their own and others feelings.
- Move each joint in a full range of motion.
- Integrate personal meaning through a creative movement experience.
Elements of Yoga:
- Many yoga poses incorporate balancing, and all use stretching.
- Practicing over a period of time yields noticeable Improvements.
- Instructor discusses and uses graphic demonstration of anatomy
- Yoga utilizes all body parts in its regime.
- Instructor discusses how food affects our bodies and minds.
- Yoga involves the development of self-discipline and concentration as well as
respect for others.
- The practice of yoga affects every muscle group in the body.
- Yoga provides opportunities for group or partner experiences.
- A holistic viewpoint of the body is a basic part of yoga.
- Through yoga, a variety of feelings arise, and the instructor emphasizes
validating feelings.
- Students learn to move every joint, with an emphasis on safely extending the
range of motion.
- Yoga practice is as much an introspective meditation as it is a system of
physical exercise, so it encourages personal meaning


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