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Croton-Harmon First-Graders Try Out Yoga
Teachers from Croton-on-Hudson's Yoga Sol offered a yoga class to students.
From CHUFSD: First-grade students at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School in Croton-on-Hudson tested their strength, flexibility and balance during a yoga session hosted by two local yogis and parents, Kristy Cohen and Erin Trapasso.
The grade has been studying communities, which has included visiting local businesses, but this time, the businesses visited them at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School.
Students learned that some businesses, like Yoga Sol, where the two instructors teach, can provide a service in a community.
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“Yoga is really good for your body and your mind,” first-grade teacher Joanna Besana told the students.
Cohen and Trapasso started off the session with a singing bowl and went on to share the five parts of yoga – connect, breathe, move, focus and relax – as they led the group through different poses.
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Students enjoyed trying to perfect their “crazy-eights” and tree poses before repeating the affirmation “I am so kind.”
Photos courtesy of the Croton-Harmon School District (First-grade students at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School in Croton-on-Hudson enjoyed practicing yoga with two teachers from Yoga Sol.)
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