Warm up: Hands together in prayer, breathing in and out and circle of love around body. Bring hands together and pretend you are in a cold country and warm your hands up in front of the fire.
Begin in mouse pose (child pose) and read first paragraph- 'not even a mouse'. Stretch up into 'mountain pose' and 'waterfall' pose 'as you hang stockings'. 'snug in their beds' is plank pose.
Frog pose for 'sugar plums' and hands rounded over head to finish.
Wearing a 'kerchief' and 'night 'cap' is sky warrior.
Then wind down to plank, then frog to sun salute and mountain pose (as you spring to feet). Star pose for 'tore open shutters'. Bow pose for sleigh.
Reindeer- deer pose but with hands as antlers. Bicycle legs to 'dash away'
and 'dash away' again with Earth warrior.
'They flew' in 'aeroplane pose' Earth warrior.
'Prancing and pawing' in downward dog pose.
Star pose for 'St Nicholas'.
Triangle pose for 'head to his foot'.
Dancing warrior for 'toys flung on his back'
Butterfly pose for 'beard like snow' actions. Breathe and hands circle, open chest (and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.)
Belly breathes- 'for shook like jelly'
and twist of his head- neck stretch side to side.
'plank' up the chimney he rose' and up to mountain pose.
Bow pose 'sprang to his sleigh'
up into 'camel' then up on knees with arms outstretched- "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
Tracey Ashdown-Maclay.
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