The other night, Zephyr picked the book “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle as one of the books for me to read him before bed. I have used many of the Eric Carle books for yoga, but this one I hadn’t used in a really long time. Zephyr and I thought it would make the perfect kids yoga class for his preschool class where I was teaching the next day. It also fits in perfectly with all the gardening and beautiful almost summer weather around here. It also gave me an excuse to teach the kids how beneficial spiders are for our yards and to just leave them and let them do their thing- eating all the pests like flies and mosquitoes! It was a great lesson, but not without a few moans and groans from the Kindergartners I taught later that day- there is LOTS of web spinning happening and they were getting tired! The preschoolers loved it though.
4) spider pose: We spin our spider webs (either in table or we flip it like downward dog and spin in circles on our mats) 
5) cow pose: We drop our bellies and and look up to the sky with a loud “moo!!” do this 3x
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goat pose: We jump on rocks like the goats do in the story. We jump our hands and feet up at the same time and try to land on all fours.
9) pig pose: We roll side to side in the mud saying “oink oink!”
10) cat pose: We lift our backs to the sky in our cat pose with a loud “meow!”
11) duck pose: We squat down and swim like ducks with a loud “quack quack!”
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owl pose: squat down with arms behind you, open your eyes wide and move your head from side to side with a loud “whoooooo! whooooo!”
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sleeping spider pose: sleep like you are a spider on your web
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