sun salutations

Sun Salutations – Music for the Sun Salutation

Here are some beautiful and uplifting music suggestions I have used for relaxation or background music in classes with the Sun Salutation.

The Sun Shines on Everyone (It doesn’t make choices)
on the Feeling Good Today Children’s Yoga Music CD
by Snatam Kaur (listen to the song here)

Sun Salutation – Dance for the Sun
by Kira Willey (listen here)

(I downloaded this Kira Willey’s CD from itunes and have listened to it outside of my yoga class – catchy tunes!)

The traditional Kundalini Yoga closing that I use in my kids yoga class goes (listen here):

May the long time sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on…
Sat Nam

This song fits in with the Sun Salutation and most of the kids in my classes know it because we sing it at the end of every class. There’s a beautiful version linked above from this CD (by the way, I have every one of Snatam Kaur’s CD’s):

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Sun Salutations – Ways to Explain the Sun Salutation to Kids

Another thing my teacher, Tulshi Sen, reminded us:

Even if a room is dark for one hundred years,
it doesn’t take a hundred years to light it.
A candle will fill it instantly. He also said,

When we look up into the sky on a dark night we can see tons of stars.

During the day, all those stars are still there.
The sun is so powerful, we don’t see them.

That is how powerful our Consciousness is and why we salute the sun. We’re saluting that light, we’re honouring and obeying that light, and devoting ourselves to live in that light. Everything else will seem faint in comparison.