{"id":73360,"date":"2020-05-28T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73360"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:04:31","slug":"stretching-to-music-to-calm-our-minds-and-bodies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/healthy-active-living\/healthy-active-living-all-grades\/calming-our-minds-and-bodies\/stretching-to-music-to-calm-our-minds-and-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching to Music to Calm Our Minds and Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Calming our Minds and Bodies: Yoga, Stretching and Breathing Exercises<\/h5>\n<p>Relaxing music and stretching exercises benefit our minds and bodies by acting as a release for any stress or anxiety that we may be feeling. Stretching gets our blood flowing, helps loosen our muscles, and improves our flexibility, reducing our chance of injuries. Calming music can help ease our minds so that we can better cope with tension and stress. Combining music with stretching is the perfect way to keep our minds and bodies calm and functioning well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73362\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280.jpg\" alt=\"A black background with a silhouette of a person sitting cross-legged with earphones on, and a pink glow is surrounding their body.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-945x630.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/meditation-2176170_1280-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turn on calming music. Stretch your body in different ways and hold the stretch. Stretch up to the sky. Reach to your toes. Make yourself as wide as possible. Make yourself as small as possible. Twist one way and then the other. Try out your favourite stretches. Do this for 10 minutes or longer.<\/p>\n<h2>Calm Down: Yoga Sequence for Kids<\/h2>\n<p>Good for children of any age<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calm Down Yoga Sequence For Kids\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWP4Xl4IDYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relaxing music and stretching exercises benefit our minds and bodies by acting as a release for any stress or anxiety that we may be feeling. Stretching gets our blood flowing, helps loosen our muscles, and improves our flexibility, reducing our chance of injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72464,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73360\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}