5 minutes to start your day
I can practise sun salutations while concentrating on my breathing.
5 minutes to start your day
I can practise sun salutations while concentrating on my breathing.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: focus on smooth, synchronised breath, maintaining alignment and transitioning fluidly between poses.
- Move: with each pose, engage all muscles particularly at the core, allowing for increased stability.
- Think: focusing on the breath can calm the mind and reduce mental chatter to improve mindfulness skills.
- Feel: being comfortable and calm promotes relaxation, leading to smoother and more fluid movement.
- Connect: fostering mindfulness and well-being, while encouraging group rhythm, creates a strong sense of community.
Keywords
Sun salutations - a series of yoga poses performed in a flowing sequence to warm up the body and improve flexibility
Inhale - breathe in
Exhale - breathe out
Common misconception
I'm not flexible so I can't do yoga.
Flexibility develops over time with consistent practice. Yoga also improves strength, balance and mindfulness. Many poses can be modified to suit all levels, so anyone can start, no matter their current flexibility.
To help you plan your year 11 physical education lesson on: 5 minutes to start your day, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 11 physical education lesson on: 5 minutes to start your day, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: yoga, pilates and mindfulness for life unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
1 yoga mat per pupil, optional: blankets, bolsters and blocks per student and a speaker.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
