Week 3

Monday! Yoga!

On Monday we did yoga with instructor Adrienne Hengels and she was great with the girls! I have to admit I was a little excited to just relax and do some yoga.

First, Adrienne taught us what it meant to do yoga and how when practicing yoga one tries to have no thoughts at all. When she asked the girls what they think about during the day the first response was "Justin Bieber." Does that give you an idea of what the class was like? This was probably the giggliest yoga class I have ever done. But it was a lot of fun!
Some of the girls had done yoga before while others did not really know much about it. Adrienne did a good job of keeping the girls focused and I think there were about two ten second intervals when everyone was completely silent. Which by the way, is a first time for the Girls' Club.
I wish I would have had my camera, the girls were in some pretty funny looking poses. She had us do a two person downward dog, so the girls had to balance on each other. It was... interesting.

My highlight of the day was seeing Sage get involved and excited. She had some yoga experience and took pride in being able to answer Adrienne's questions.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we played with a giant parachute, one where everyone stands around the edges of a giant circular tarp (the parachute) and hold a part of it. Then if everyone works in unison the parachute can be swung up and down so that a tent is created underneath it.

The girls thought it was a lot fun, but it was kind of hard for us to play most of the parachute games with the small amount girls in the club.

Field trip!

We went swim with the triathlon team today! More details and pictures soon to come!