KS4 · Physical education · Year 11
5 minutes to start your day
Health and wellbeing: yoga, pilates and mindfulness for life
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can practise sun salutations while concentrating on my breathing.
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5 minutes to start your day: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can practise sun salutations while concentrating on my breathing.
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.
Words to know
- 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 mistakes
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.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Try to create an environment that feels warm, welcoming and stress free, e.g., this may be outside away from others on the field in summer. It may not be benficial to do this in the hall where pupils will be sitting their GCSEs. Having calm music in the background may also help set the atmosphere.