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Google Forms. Students journaled how they felt by filling in the blanks. “After doing
yoga, I feel ___. I feel this because ___.”
After doing yoga, I feel good. I feel this because my blood is drifted by yoga.
After doing yoga, I feel clean. I feel this because body stretch and big breath.
After doing yoga, I feel power fell out. I feel this because i omitted it from the state
that i laid emphasis on at a stretch.
Using Google Forms, I coded the words students used and the number of times they
were used. Of the 1008 entries, students used the words “relax” 205 times. See below
for more information.
Relax 205 Good /Great 180
Fun/interesting 101 Happy 60
Awake /Waking up 33 Enjoy 70
There were also negative words used:
Difficult /hard 210
Tired 186
and words that could not be coded as either:
Nothing/so-so 8;
Hot 170
While it’s overly simplistic to say that there were more positive words than negative
words, overall the data showed positive results.
Now you try!
I am not the only English teacher at the university level who has tried this. In fact, I
was inspired to bring yoga in to my classroom based off of this study! Thanks, Steve
Jugovic, for starting it all!
I am giving you all of my materials, which can be easily adjusted. My students were
low-levels English users, so feel free to modify accordingly. Before you try this unit
with your students, my best advice is to try it yourself. I don’t necessarily mean that
you need to go looking for a group lesson at the local gym or studio and join it as
soon as possible. There are a lot of qualified yoga instructors who offer lessons
online. Even better, here is a You Tube yoga lesson that you can do AT YOUR DESK!
At this point, you already know the benefits.