Large group of children reaching their arms overhead on colorful yoga mats in a school cafeteria

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Yippee Ki Yay Namaste

Want to build your positive mind?
Feel bright in every which way?
Breathe in BIG and stretch real wiiiiiiiiide
Exhale a Yippee Ki Yay!

Large group of children on colorful yoga mats in a school cafeteria, stretching their arms wide with their teacher

To activate Positive Mind
Release worries that stick like glue
Mooooove inside your rib cage
Let out a Yabba Dabba Doo!

Children folded forward in a deep standing forward bend on yoga mats

The negative mind is protective
fearing, “it’s just not possible”,
The positive mind takes risks
Makes the impossible, possible

Children on hands and knees on yoga mats reaching one arm forward in a balance pose

Go from Negative Mind clenching

Girl in a pink shirt in downward dog pose on a purple yoga mat, with classmates behind her

To stomping…

Children bending forward with knees bent and arms swinging down during a yoga class

To Jumping…

Teacher leading a big group of children in a wide standing stretch on colorful mats

To Laughing…

Children laughing with their hands at their heads during a group yoga class in a school cafeteria

To quite Positive consequencing

Children lying on their bellies on yoga mats, lifting their chests in cobra pose

Let’s head toward the Neutral Mind
~the balance that hears both sides
Make choices from a centered space.
So our Trust gets… Magnified!

Children lying on their backs on colorful yoga mats with their legs raised straight up

Positive mind is calm, contained
and inspires expansion and boldness,
We don’t get rid of the Negative Mind,
It protect us from dangers, like coldness..

May we brighten ourselves from the inside
So we easily Yippee Ki Yay
May we see each other’s goodness
Namaste Namaste Namaste

Girl in a pink shirt balancing on her sit bones with her knees hugged in, in boat pose

Sat Nam

Thank you Yogi Bhajan for the teachings

Jenni Miller for the Yippee Ki Yay when I really needed it

and Rachel Schattle for capturing the children’s radiance

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