January 8th, 2012 - Class review

Hari Om,
          Welcome back. A Happy New Year to all our young friends. We had a fun class this Sunday. Our friends were excited and energised after their winter break.
          We are happy to celebrate our little friend's birthdays during balavihar class. But we cannot serve food or snacks in the class rooms or hallways. It is against the school rules. If you wish you can send in some pre-packaged snack. But we are happy to celebrate our friend's birthdays without treats or gifts  

            Aunty set up the altar with guruji and Saraswathi devi's picture and we started the class with deep breaths followed by 3 loud oms.
            We introduced meditation without marbles. The children recited shri Rama jayam in their minds and were still for more than a minute. We then continued with our regular prayers from my Prayers book. Some of the prayers are also in previous blog posts.

Aunty introduced us to a new bhajan favored by our acharya Swami Tejomayananda
           Srikrishna Govinda Hare Murare
           Hey Nath Narayana Vasudeva
           Hey Nath Narayana Vasudeva
           Hey Nath Narayana Vasudeva
           Srikrishna Govinda Hare Murare
           Hey Nath Narayana Vasudeva
Please ask the children to sing it to you. 

We are making slow progress in the geeta verses. We have covered upto eight verses. Please practice these at home.

We then got up on our feet and followed Aunty's lead to stretch and exercise. We touched our toes or some of us tried to. We did the hula hoop with our hips and wind mill with our arms.

Played Zip Zap Zoom and recollected the main characters, places and events of the Ramanaya story. We want to take this opportunity to thank all our parents. We are having  wonderful time teaching your kids. We will be having a Hanuman jayanthi in the ashram sometime in April. Our classes are responsible for decorating for the festival. Please take this opportunity to get involved in the program.