"With big changes come bigger learnings. In the online learning space, our students (and honestly ourselves as educators!) contend with countless new challenges: distractions, shared spaces, lack of eye contact, missed social cues, passive observation and more.

Amid these challenges, how can we as educators and families ensure engagement, connection and quality learning within the students under our care?

We’re here to share what we’ve learned with you. In this month’s toolkit, you will:

Understand the imbalances in the mind-body that may happen during distance learning,

Identify when you and your students may be experiencing overstimulation of mental/cognitive domain and under-stimulation of physical, emotional and social domains, and

Learn 8 accessible yoga and mindfulness tools to feel connected and engaged during distance learning.

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"Learning skills to support our mental health early in life can provide significant benefits to our physical, emotional, and social growth for life. For example, for children to choose calm in times of stress, they first need the opportunity to experience calm and practice arriving at a calm state.

All of the tools you find in this toolkit help cultivate calm, mental health, and overall well being. In this resource, learn 9 yoga and mindfulness practices for mental health that are suitable for a variety of settings and time frames: each tool may be as brief as 1 minute or expanded as needed.

Use the tools individually or all together to tailor your own experience, now and for the long term."

*Counting Breath
*Core Breath
*Yoga Poses at Desk
*Brain Break
*Relaxation

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"Enjoy doing yoga workouts from home with your favourite trainers such as Jillian Michaels, Jane Fonda, Billy Blanks Jr., Tara Stiles and many others. This channel might offer the best variety of any out there – It even includes meditations with Deepak Chopra (maybe a good way to relax AFTER your workout!)"

"Do Yoga with Me is one of my personal favourite sources for good home workouts, obviously of the yoga variety! Many of their classes are filmed outdoors in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. The level of instruction is top-notch and there are videos that focus on pretty much every part of the body (e.g. hips, hamstrings, back, etc.), so you can target the area that you need to work on most."

Any video with a plus symbol in an orange/yellow circle requires a subscription but all others are free to access. You can use the filters at the top of the page to filter your search.

This toolkit unpacks six specific, practical tools that can be used to share yoga and mindfulness with teens/adolescent students.

All six tools prioritize two important objectives:
- How to address common roadblocks that (seemingly) limit teens’ access to yoga and mindfulness, and
- How to liberate and affirm teens’ identities in yoga and mindfulness

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Looking for something fun and educational to do this summer?

Check out this great site. It has 4 weeks of activities for kids of all ages. You'll find screen-free activities, crafts, online games and videos, virtual tours of the coolest places to see the coolest things, Live Cams, science experiments, STEM activities, Minute to Win It family games, art lessons, summer camp ideas to do at home and much, much more!

Let the summer fun and learning begin!

"Workouts provided on the Live Strong YouTube video channel will definitely help you improve your strength, flexibility and fitness. Celebrity trainer, Nicky Holender instructs most of the online workouts you’ll find here. He knows his stuff and tailors these at-home workouts for busy people who want a quick exercise fix."

A video of a 30 minute Yoga class that teaches the participants positions and strategies to help with anxiety relief.

Through social emotional learning, students learn to better understand and navigate their thoughts and feelings, set goals, work and empathize with others, build friendships, and lead successful and enriched lives.

With this toolkit, you’ll be able to practice the five core competencies of SEL through simple, engaging yoga tools with your children and teens.

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Get fit with a little monkey business! Moovelee is an animated monkey that leads 4-10 minutes workout videos for kids ages 3-5. With a focus on meditation, yoga, and cardio, Moovelee will get your kids moving.

OPEN has one mission: to improve the effectiveness of physical education for every child.

We help teachers help their students by providing rigorous, outcomes-based curriculum tools to every physical education teacher – no exceptions.

Equity of Access is essential for empowering the entire physical education community. US Games believes in the talents and creativity of the teachers and administrators that we serve. That’s why OPEN will always be free to every educator. This is not an ideal or philosophy. It’s a movement.

This YouTube video offers indoor soccer training drills and quick feet drills soccer.

Take advantage of time spent indoors by honing your soccer skills! Simply soccer’s seven-minute YouTube video shows you how to work on some fancy footwork skills from the comfort of home.

Look for all of the other videos in the series.

"Physical signs of stress can include headaches, stiff joints, and sore stomachs. Due to our bodies’ own self-protective measures, we might not realize that we’re living with symptoms of stress for days, weeks, months, or years. To support you, Yoga Ed. has created this toolkit. In this toolkit, you will find body-based practices to manage stress and support your and your students’ physical and emotional wellbeing."

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Poses and exercises for:
*headaches
*tension
*tight shoulders
*back ache
*sore hands
*vertigo
*stomach ache
*jaw

Yoga Journal is your number one resource for yoga poses, sequences, meditation, and the lifestyle that surrounds it.

"Yoga Journal is a wonderful YouTube channel worth following if you want to learn how to do yoga at home. Highly experienced yoga teachers will show you how to do poses for the most relaxation, flexibility, and strength benefits. These short videos can be done whenever you have a few minutes to spare during your day."

A collection of short 5 to 33 minute videos for yoga for anxiety relief.
You've got this!

A 28 minute video for practicing yoga for depression from The Distance Learning Centre.

A video of a yoga class that teaches us strategies to help relieve the feelings of depression.