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Hello, everyone! How are you all? Šest godina. Filip. Filip, six years old. Kelaš, three years old. Izabela? Yes, please. Your name? What? Taja. How old? Pet let. And you? Mamec will answer now. Lara, 4 years old. Your name? Your name? How old are you? How old are you? He is Nirmal, 5 years old. And you are? Madhu, 8 years old. I am many years old. I am many years old. Today we will practice together. I am a yoga teacher, and I am also a teacher for children of preschool age by profession. I am a yoga teacher, and I am also a kindergarten teacher. I lead yoga classes for small children, ages three to six. I lead yoga classes for small children from 3 to 6 years. With small children, the group is usually smaller, so a younger age. Their attention span is not too long; concentration is the same, so yoga exercises usually last about half an hour. So the yoga practice for the smaller children is about half an hour long, so it’s not too long. We will do some very basic āsanas, and we will play a little bit. We will play, and then we will practice, so it will be more fun for us. Also, we have the parents here, and it’s always nice, especially at the beginning, to include the parents so that we can practice together. And it’s also very good to include the parents in the practice, so we can all play together and practice together. Oh, some more are coming, hello. Please join, molim pridružite se. We will start with simply standing on our feet. We begin very slowly, polako, polako, very slowly. And now quicker, quicker. And now the knees up, and one more time as high as we can, and again slowly stand, and like, yop, it’s like monkeys on the forelegs, very nice. So slowly, slowly we sit, and we lie like this, like this, and when we run a lot like this. Then we rest a little, we lie a little like this, and we become completely peaceful. We lie and we are very, very still. Nicely, a few times inhale and rest. We picture that we are lying on a nice meadow. And with us, there are parents and the whole family together. Just see how the belly is moving when we are breathing. If you want, you can put your hand on the mother’s belly or the father’s and see how the big belly is moving. And if you want, you can put your ear to the mother’s chest and listen to the sound. The sound of the heart, and we are very, very quiet. We raise the hands up, like the wind. And now, down. And we mingle the fingers. And once again, up, moving the fingers. dolje, lijevo, desno, the toes also, and we put the knees to the chest, koljena na prsa, we roll, Naprijed, nazad, tako, like this, very good. Slowly, slowly, we sit. Polako sjednemo. We all come nearer, so the feet are in the middle. Dođite, dođite. Come on. And if we can, can we grab the toes? Ovako. Tako. And now, we stretch the arms. Wow, like this. Very good. And now again, up here in the front and back. Once again, like this. And back. We put the hands here. Yeah. Very good. And now we raise the buttocks. Podignemo stražnicu. Jako dobro. Very good. And down. And once again. Hop. Very good. Down. And just once again. Još jednom. Visoko gore. Jako dobro. Spustimo. And we sit like this. Do you know? I will tell you a story. Can you tell a story? Yes, I will tell you one story. Good story? You want to hear the story? Yes. Okay. The story goes like this. There was a teacher who lived in a small, small village. Deep in the forest, there was one master. He was living in one little cottage in the woods. And he had one little, little mouse who was living with him, and this mouse was like this, very little like this, and he was making the noise like this, and he was very small, and he was so afraid. He was trembling a lot like this. He asked the teacher, the master. When I hear the noise like this, I tremble; I fear so much. Please, can you make me a cat? Ok, no problem. You are a cat. A cat is like this. A cat has a big, nice back. The cat bends the back. And then look up. And she is very happy while doing, very, very happy, and she stretches. What is here? Bravo. Very good. And this cat was very happy. She was walking around the forest, feeling very, very happy. But then, she heard the dog. What to do? Ne, psa. Make me, please, a dog, so I won’t be so scared. And the teacher said, "Okay, napravi od nje psa." So the dog was like this, very strong. Strong, he was running very fast, very fast he was running. He was very happy, he was very happy. He was very strong, and he was very happy, but then in the forest... He heard the big noise. There was a tiger, and he was again scared. I was scared again. He was very scared. He was not happy at all. Please, master, please, teacher, make a tiger out of me so I will never be afraid again. Please, make me a tiger. Make me a tiger. I will not ever be scared. No problem. You are the tiger, so the tiger goes like this. When the tiger was very happy, he would raise his leg. He would raise his foot when he was very happy. And then the foot goes down, like this. And then again up, like this. And then again, down. And once again, and down. And with the other leg, like this. When he was making a kade, he would lift his leg, then he would scratch his forehead a little. And again, up, and so slowly, he was very, very happy. And he would slowly sit. And together, they lived together, both the teacher and the tiger. I sve. One day, a tiger was licking the master like this, and there was a little blood on the master’s hand. There are malo malo krivi na ruci od ucitella, and the tiger. Wanted to lick the blood more. So again, the master said, "Mouse, go to the hole." So again, from the tiger, it was a mouse. And again, from the tiger, it was a small mouse. Very good. Super. So now we have seen what is a cat, what is a dog, what is a tiger. Does any of you remember how the cat behaved? Does anybody remember how the cat was acting? Who knows what the cat was doing? Kako? Pokaži nam. Ok. And what was she doing with the back? Bravo. It was a tiger. Very good. Very good. So the tiger went like this with the feet. So, slowly, slowly, when we are practicing, we can improve our posture more. Nothing at speed, nothing with force. We lie on the mat slowly. Slowly, we lie on the stomach. Come closer, Gaspary, the child, and we put hands in the front. We put our hands forward, and we play with our fingers. With the fingers like this, and we make a noise. And a bigger noise. Bigger noise. Even bigger noise. Noise. Quiet. We are very quiet. We don’t make noise anymore. And now again. Do you know when the rain begins to fall? Slowly, slowly. You hear the drops? And then, harder rain. And then the thunders. The rain stops. Very good. And now, slowly, the wind comes. The wind, like this. Very good. Wind, who is blowing the rocking chair so slowly, like this. Very good. And in front and the back, naprijed, nazad. Like this. Very good. Super. And again, cool us down. The hands here. And slowly, we try to hold the hands together. Jako dobro. And now we will make a big wind. Come on, finish the circle. Zatvorimo krug. Are we ready? Jesmo spremni? We will make a big wind. One, two, three. And once again. Ještě jednom. Very good. Notice podignemo. We raise also the legs. We are flying in the air. Yeah, very good. Slowly we sit. Super. We wiggle our fingers. You know? When somebody is writing on the machine or a computer. Like this. Very fast. Very good. And now, like this. Like you are tickling somebody. Very good. Super. And now like this. Like we are circling the big circle. When we are drawing the circle, kao da rišemo, kao da pišemo krug. Crtamo. On the other side also, the big circle. Cratamo krug. Elbows, and we draw a big circle with the elbows. Very good. And we stretch the hands, raise the arms, lift ourselves up, and raise the hands up. Hands up, and we do deva uṣṭrāsana. Like this. Very good. And again, up. And we sit. Very good. The forest, you see, is also known to be home to another animal. One more animal is living in the forest. Do you know which? This animal doesn’t have a leg. Yes, Madu? Snake. Zmija. You are right. So, the snake goes like this. The snake goes up and down. And we like little legs on the side. Mala rāśirimo nage. And then the snake again goes up. I looked. She looks. There is one big bear. I must go to the hall. Pogleda. There is one elephant. I will look one more time. It’s free. Nobody is there. I can slowly, slowly move like this, like a snake. Kao zmija. Se mičemo. With a tongue? Very good. Super. And slowly we stand up. Uṭhānemo. With the bigger children that are older, we can also do Sūrya Namaskār. With older children, we can also do Sūrya Namaskār because it is very easy for children to do. It is very easy for children to do it. It gives them one exercise that they can do every day without being tired. So it gives them a good exercise every day. It is not so long, and it is very, very nice. Nice. Should we try Sūrya Namaskār? Yeah? Okay. So, we stand like this. At least a few positions. Inhale, up. Exhale, down. We touch the toes. And then, left leg behind. Left leg. Drieva nozica. One leg. The other leg comes to the back. Very good. The buttocks up. Very good. And now, cobra. Idemo gore. We go up. And now, right leg in the front. We touch the toes, dotaknemo prste. Idemo gore, we go up, and see the sun. Hi, Sun, how are you? Dobar dan, sunce. Zdravo, sunce. Shall we do it once again? Yes, okay. Hi, son. Zdravo, sunce. Kako si? Idemo dole. We touch the toes. Tako. Both legs there. Perfect. Koljena spustimo. Prso. Bredo. Very good. Odlično. Stuck? Very good. We go up. We see our belly. One leg in the front, second leg down. And slowly up. Hi, sun. Hi, sun. Great. And we fold our hands. Great. And today we will practice and imitate another animal. We will imitate a ram. Do you know about the crow? So we will imitate the crow like this, you know? Like this. And we walk like crows. The sound of crows. And slowly we walk in a circle. One after the other, in the circle we walk. Very good. Sometimes it is a little harder. We feel the knees, we feel the legs, but that is good because then we know that they exist. Sometimes we feel our legs, we feel our knees, but it is very good because then we know we are there. They are there, and the muscles are getting stronger. Very good. And slowly we sit on our mat. We sit and again we relax. If you want, you can lie on your back. If not, on your stomach. Izvoli. Come on. Very good. And now we just look a little bit, check if something hurts us, if our hand hurts, if our leg hurts. How do we feel after the exercise? Now we just see what we feel: our hands, our legs. Do we have some pain in the legs or in the hands? Just how we feel after practicing. If we feel good, then we can practice every day. Jel’tako? We don’t have to practice for a long time. We can practice just one, two, or three exercises every day that we really liked. So it will be the best for us, and slowly start to move your fingers. Wiggle your fingers. Stretch the body and down again. Wiggle the fingers, we sit up. Let’s move on to the lotus. Children usually don’t have a problem with lotus posture. If they can, they can do it. If you can, you can do a half lotus. Some positions are very comfortable for sitting. Some postures are very, very comfortable, very good. Sometimes children really like to sit in the lotus, and sometimes they like to practice the lotus pose. And if you notice that it happens, let them do it. It’s better for them. So sometimes children like to sit in Padmāsana, in lotus posture, and sometimes they also do āsanas from Padmāsana, so it’s very, very beneficial, so you just let them do it. Now we will do a little prāṇāyāma, children, prāṇāyāma. We just put the hands on the knees. Yeah, like this. Always, we try to breathe through the nose. The mouth is closed and we breathe through the nose. And slowly, we will try to breathe very, very slowly. So we go, inhale, inhale. We make a big circle. We join our hands. We fold our hands. We make a big circle and exhale through the nose, slowly. Perfect. Once again, inhale. Inhalation. Slower. Exhalation. And once again, inhale. Exhalation. Hello. And now we put hands like this, like this, like this. Or we can put hands in chin mudrā, like you want. You can put your hands like this or in chin mudra, as you wish. And three times we will intonate the sound of OṂ. Three times we will chant Oṁ. We inhale once. Inhale. One little song. Now we will sing one song. We can all do it together; they are very easy words. I am Sachitānanda Om Sachitānanda Sachitānanda Om Sachitānanda Om Sachitānanda Sachitānanda Om Sachitānanda