Yoga Team Quiz

[Guest guest]

hi Nova

great job you are doing there

keep it up

we use a similar game also during the camps at ICYER and i recommend such games as they are the easiest way to learn the sanskrit terms for the asanas

we have a new game at Yognat called 'Yognat says'

the students have to do whatever is said when yognat says it but not do it when it is said without the word yognat says before it

for eg

lift your right hand means dont do it but if yognat says lift your right hand then you do it

it is a great teaching in awareness, concentration, discrimination as also in learning to listen and follow instructions-something that is conspicuously absent now days in most 'featherless bipeds' running around on earth

all the best

ananda

Nova Scheidt <nova_scheidt wrote:

Hello there,Just a quick note to say that I found the team quiz questions difficult. The yoganjali students are awesome.I taught my last White City yoga class on Monday. We ended by playing a team game. I split the students into two groups and gave each team 4 cards (one for each person--they chose who got which card). I limited the poses to the samasthithi group and had warned the students (the week before) that they would have a quiz on this group.The cards were two types:1) had the sanskrit name. Students had to tell me what it meant in English and perform the pose2) had the physical picture of the pose (Kalavathi, I stole your poses off of the internet). Students had to tell me what the sanskrit name was. Something about the pose. (For instance, for nataraja

asana, who is it named after). They then had to perform the pose.Some students have taken 3 (10-week) classes with me and I think that the game went over well.We had fun this last 10 week course focusing on animal poses (it "evolved" that way). This White City group likes to make noises. As you might imagine, they loved the donkey kriya and simha nada.Yours in Yoga!---Nova_______________http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca & page=byoa/prem & xAPID=1994 & DI=1034 & SU=http://hotmail.com/enca & HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

MBBS, ADY, DSM, DPC, PGDFH

Chairman

Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER

25,2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry-605 013

Tel: 0413 - 2622902 / 0413 -2241561

Website: www.icyer.com

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Nova,

Thank you for the insight into your classes It sound like you have a wonderful fun group. Your description gave me a real feel for your class.

 

Everyone else out there,

It would be nice to hear about the dynamics in your classes and some of the things you do for your students.

 

GSNova Scheidt <nova_scheidt wrote:

Hello there,Just a quick note to say that I found the team quiz questions difficult. The yoganjali students are awesome.I taught my last White City yoga class on Monday. We ended by playing a team game. I split the students into two groups and gave each team 4 cards (one for each person--they chose who got which card). I limited the poses to the samasthithi group and had warned the students (the week before) that they would have a quiz on this group.The cards were two types:1) had the sanskrit name. Students had to tell me what it meant in English and perform the pose2) had the physical picture of the pose (Kalavathi, I stole your poses off of the internet). Students had to tell me what the sanskrit name was. Something about the pose. (For instance, for nataraja

asana, who is it named after). They then had to perform the pose.Some students have taken 3 (10-week) classes with me and I think that the game went over well.We had fun this last 10 week course focusing on animal poses (it "evolved" that way). This White City group likes to make noises. As you might imagine, they loved the donkey kriya and simha nada.Yours in Yoga!---Nova_______________http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca & page=byoa/prem & xAPID=1994 & DI=1034 & SU=http://hotmail.com/enca & HL=Market_MSNIS_TaglinesYOGACHARYA GOWRISHANKARANANDA

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