spleen, heart, intestine, and other organs (This
Āsana is also useful for improving strength and
getting rid of laziness and fatigue.);
Sarvāngāsana (Posture of Candle) which is
useful for preparing the existing nervous
system in the stomach, accelerating blood flow
to head, balancing the body, strengthening the
hand muscle, and training concentration.
Besides, this candle posture is useful for
improving the digestion system in the stomach.
3.2.2.6 Relaxation (Savāsana)
Savāsana is a relaxation posture performed after
surya namaskara or āsana. This relaxation activity
aims to eliminate fatigue after the training of yoga
before the students perform the teaching and learning
processes. Savāsana which is known as the posture of
dead body requires the conscious will from the whole
body to relax until it feels weak, like the dead body
without soul.
Savāsana is performed starting from the lying
position while looking up; the whole body is relaxed,
two legs are opened with as wide as shoulder, the
right leg is laid down to right and the left leg is laid
down to the left, both hands are placed beside the
body, while the palm faces upward. Both eyes are
closed slowly. The whole body is controlled to be as
comfortable as possible, without any movement.
The consciousness is slowly focused to the leg.
The concentration is focused without movement or
stress. The whole leg is felt in the relaxing condition.
When the leg is fully relaxed, the consciousness is
slowly moved to ankle and lower leg. The area is
made relax; it is then moved to thigh and bottom.
While stopping for a while, the whole lower part of
body is felt in the relaxed condition. It is then moved
upward to lower stomach, navel, upper stomach,
chest, back, hand, forearm, in a relaxed state.
The consciousness is then moved upward to the
area of oesophagus, chin, lip, nose, cheek, eye,
forehead, top of head, back of head, and the whole
area of head. The whole body is then felt in a relaxed
state.
When the whole body is in a relaxed state, without
the contraction in a muscle, both hands are held in the
praying position in front of the chest. Both hands are
scrubbed in front of the chest until it feels warm; it is
repeated three times while stimulating two eyes to
open again. After two eyes are opened, the students
wake up slowly and return to the sitting posture at the
beginning before the training starts.
3.2.2.7 The Closing Prayer (Japa)
The students return to the comfortable sitting
position, while the back of neck and head is
straightened. Both hands are placed again on knee to
form jnana mudra, the hand attitude which is
performed by meeting thumb and index finger. The
breath is slowly controlled and two eyes are closed.
After silence for a while, the closing prayer is chanted
to express gratitude to the ruler of place where the
training is held and the ruler of universe. The prayer
"Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu" is repeated
three times and it means "May the whole universe be
in peaceful and happy state." It is ended by chanting
parama santih.
3.3 Discussion
There are many researches conducted as the effort to
improve the participation of students in the school.
Yoga is one of programs provided by several schools,
as well as in the elementary school. In Denpasar, the
similar activity has been done, but the yoga, in
particular, is not yet seriously performed to improve
the learning concentration of students. Butzer et al.
elaborated that yoga has a positive contribution on the
students' behaviour. In his research, class-based yoga
activity was performed as an effort to manage the
stress behaviour of their students. (tt:2). Yoga activity
can help students in improving their self-awareness;
improving self-awareness can help students get
involved longer in the learning process (Rix and
Bernay, 2014). Students have different social
background, culture, and economy, so it affects their
behaviour in the class. Therefore, by following the
awareness-improving program in elementary school
students in New Zealand, it can help students to learn
more effectively. Yoga is one of programs to help
students in focusing their attention, so their awareness
level gets better.
Thus, the implementation of yoga in State
Elementary School 1 Sumerta is ideally planned and
developed more effectively. The right duration needs
to be considered in yoga implementation in the
school. Considering that the students spend more time
in their houses, the parent involvement program
should be developed in improving the awareness of
students in improving the learning concentration. The
program which can be developed should improve the
involvement of parents in education in school by
giving a task, which must be done by students
together with their parents (Dewi, 2016). Thus, the
limitation of yoga implementation in school can be
solved by performing it together with parent. It will
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