Yoga exercises stretch students understanding of Hinduism

In one of the Religious Studies lessons, our Year 7 students swapped the classroom for the gym as they experienced yoga to understand how strenuous and beneficial this practice can be (as well as being harder than they thought!).

In the classroom, students have been studying Hinduism and looking at the objective of ‘What it is like to live life as a Hindu’. They have looked at the core beliefs of Hinduism and last lesson examined the Four Margas (yoga’s), looking at how a Hindu may break the cycle of Samsara (life, death and reincarnation) to achieve Moksha and be united with Brahman their supreme deity.

For the yoga activities, they firstly practiced the tree pose for balance, and moved to more advanced positions such as the warrior I and warrior II poses, downward facing dog and the cobra pose to name a few.

Led by Mrs Watt (Head of Religious Studies), the students thoroughly enjoyed the 20-minute yoga session before heading back to the classroom to create a Moksha-pat board game, which is similar to snakes and ladders that taught the consequences of karma and the cycle of samsara.