Sahaj Publications for Children in Russia (2010)

At the International Sahaja Yoga Festival which will take place in Togliatti on August 6-8, 2010, Sahaja pedagogical collective of the Sahaja Yoga kindergarten “Cool Breeze”, with the support of the publishing company “Nirmal System”, will be happy to introduce Sahaja publications for children.

Children are the future of Sahaja Yoga. And the Divine work they will be able to do depends on the level of how deep they were to comprehend Sahaja Yoga in their childhood.

In many cities of Russia, there are Sahaja Yoga meetings for kids. And it is very important because children’s meditations, in contrast to adults’ meetings, have their peculiarities:

1. The duration of a children’s meeting should not exceed 10-15 minutes.

2. The conduction of the meditation should be dynamic to keep the child’s attention on the main point.

3. Music helps maintain meditative state during the meditation.

4. Parents are the people who Shri Mataji has trusted the upbringing of realized Souls. That is why they play an active role when conducting meditations at home and are responsible for their child’s visiting collective children’s meetings.

5. That’s children’s nature that they copy everything that adults do. That is why they copy our attitude to meditation and Sahaja Yoga.

CDs and booklets that have been published this year in Russia helping parents and everyone who works with children in Sahaja Yoga in different cities of Russia:

1) “A Travel to the Country of Shining Lotuses”

Audio CD

A music guide for holding children’s meetings. There are six kinds of meditations on the CD:

1. “Song-cleaning”

Bhajans-mantras, the names of the Deities and the names of the chakras are used in the song. When the song is playing the child can be suggested to clean his chakras with bhandans (wind-cleaning) or lemons.

2. “Mother’s Breathing”

The duration of the tape is shortened taking children’s perception into consideration.

It can be used as follows:

• as meditation after cleaning when one can “nourish” his chakras or just meditate.
• as cleaning itself.

3. “Meditation with Mantras”

Children can easily learn mantras for chakras performing them together with adults.

4. “Raga Yaman”

One can meditate to the accompaniment of this raga performed by children.

5. “Meditation with Prayers”

One more kind of cleaning through the word said from the heart.

6. “Bija-mantras Performed by Shri Mataji”

In this tape the duration is also shortened to make it suitable for children’s perception.

It can be used as follows:

• as meditation after cleaning during which one can “nourish” his chakras or just meditate;
• as cleaning itself.

There is also the song “A Dance of Kundalini” on the CD composed for the children of Sahaja Yogis. In the song, the qualities of the Deities which should awaken in us are praised. We hope that this song will be the beginning of the creation of the future songbook for children opening the world of Sahaja Yoga.

2) Booklet “Prayers for Children”

This booklet contains prayers for all the chakras adapted for kids. Some of the prayers were used for the recording of “Meditations with Prayers” on the CD “A Travel to the Country of Shining Lotuses”.

3) “Sahaj Studying through Playing”

A book of developing game tasks for children. Adults can use this book to introduce and examine the notion of the Deities and subtle system to kids in an absorbing manner.

4) Sahaj Colouring Book

A book of pictures: the scheme of the subtle body, chakras and Deities which the kids can paint with much pleasure learning at the same time what colours correspond to our chakras.

5) Games

In the nearest future we will be able to introduce you a variety of Sahaj games for kids. Right now we offer you two games:

Puzzle “Deities”

We advise you not only to make the picture from puzzles but also to use it for absorbing conversations and stories about the Deities and the qualities they are giving us.

Double pictures “In the Country of the Deities”

This game develops attention and memory. There is one more aim in this game: to introduce the Deities to children. Watching the game, you can check that the children not only turn the pictures but also examine them with you naming and discussing each Deity.

We express much gratitude to the people who have helped all these publications to appear:

Alexei Kartashev, Galina Vatnik, Dmitry Vatnik, Oleg Ivashenko, yuliya Ivashenko, Artem Snegirev, Viktoriya Semenova, Elena Utenkova, Vladimir Antonov, Yury Koregin, Nadezhda Koregina, Oleg Mayorov, Elena Mayorova and the children.

We humbly offer this modest input into the upbringing of the future generation of Sahaja Yogis at Her Lotus Feet of our Divine Mother Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

Jai Shri Mataji!

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