GuideNotes™ SongSolving Tools:
Yoga & Mindfulness

A song about sharing. How I feel when I share with you, how I may feel when you share with me, how we feels when we build community by sharing and some bits about how sharing is a gift and a choice and makes a difference. Social emotional aspects include self awareness, feelings, relationships, making a difference, smiles and more. Also works with feelings from different perspectives.

An affirmation song about being true to oneself, while others are true toes to themselves. Includes purpose, intentions, and a newer version includes doing hard things.

A simple song to sing to someone you appreciate. Sing to "darling" and "wonderful things" or zipper in your own words, such as volunteers, teacher, soldier, and generous things, teach-teachy things that you do. Often sung as a group song, in which a group easily sings it to the appreciated person.

A mindfulness song with opportunity for gratitude for parts of our bodies. Incorporates breath as we "say it long" with the body part we are grateful for. Great to sing as part of a yoga class, in easy seated position. Provides opportunity for reflection of what body part helped us the most during the recent activity.

A ditty to get you moving with parts of your body making the infinity sign. It's a bit silly and keeps going on and on. A unicorn to share time together, shift energy or help get a group moving together. With yoga, use as a warm-up or cooldown, moving parts of the body. national PE standards- identifying and moving parts of body and moving with a group.

Kathryn's take on the old classic! A song to accompany the oldie, with a spotlight on grit and fortitude for some Social emotional goodness.

This is a social-emotional song a bout an oak tree. Intended to pair with an oakie doakie tree check in, during which the child indicates their feelings. It is also intended to provide a space for kiddos to self-regulate to cool down or begin to name big feelings they are having. It is NOT intended as a time out space. It's about understanding self and having things to do to regulate self, while providing a safe way for a child to opt out of an activity. This is intended to be trauma- informed and to be introduced as an option, with the educators or family honoring the request for oakie doakie tree time.

A tender lullaby playing peek a boo with the stars. When we get to see them, we know day is done.

A tidy-up song. My grandmother used to say "A place for everything and everything in its place and "Put away, not down". This song highlights that concept while also indicating that we care for things so they can be found. Social emotional learning, with self-regulation, responsible choices, and thinking forward. I love to sing this song when kiddos are just coming in the house or when they are starting to put something down in a random place. Invite children to put away, not down during expectation setting at the beginning part of the transition cycle.

Written for a camp with a nautical theme, this song is used at the end of time together, when the group is moving on to the next thing. We sing "Sail away green ship", but in other settings it could be used for your identity and what you are working on. Multi-tool, CodeVerb opportunity, identity expression opportunity. "flow away group name". Sail away is always a good way to land with this one, because the purpose of the song is clear.

A social emotional song that recognizes that sharing is sometimes hard, but that it can feel good to share.

A simple lullabye that is easy to loop, and encourages us to dream about the world as we wish it could be.