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You have blessings from Guru Pūrṇimā from India. Welcome to Strelka. We have a yoga teacher training here, both for those who are already teachers and those who are going to be teachers. For existing teachers, this is an updating, not an upgrading. The first point is that every teacher should make their class comfortable and ensure correct sitting postures. Everyone, please try to sit in one line, in the middle of your yoga mat. The distance between yoga mats on all four sides should be between 75 and 90 centimeters. If you have limited space, it is a little different. When you lie down in Ānanda Āsana and stretch your hands, others will also stretch. Your hands should not touch each other; this is the principle. Make your hands like this while sitting. If you are touching, then we can chip off your fingers. Now you know you are sitting at the wrong distance. Please adjust yourself. If you don't understand, raise your hand and we will come and help you. Luckily, we have enough space, which is especially important when we do prāṇāyāma. Everyone has a different smell of exhalation. Those who did not do saṅkh prakṣālā, those who did not practice prāṇāyāmas, their breath has a little more tamas guṇa. When you do pranayama and someone is sitting close to you, you are inhaling another's prāṇa. If you have a certain distance, about 90% of the air is cleaned. Also, the body smells. Everyone has their favorite perfume. One perfume you might not like, or you might be allergic to it. Therefore, it is also a safety measure. Through the breath, we can also catch some kind of flu from others. So, there should be a minimum space such that when you stretch your hands while sitting, both hands should not touch. When you make a movement, you should be free. Your body should be free to have space to move. The space should be free to exercise. When we create space so the hands do not touch, there should be another five centimeters of distance between the fingers of the neighbor. In mechanics, this is called tolerance space. As a yoga teacher, we should know what we should give to our students. Sometimes we don't have enough space. Yoga classes in life centers are sometimes overfilled. Then we think positively and let's be on the positive way. But if we have enough space, then we should take the space. Now you can't. I imagine what I imagine. You feel so fresh now, spacey. You don't smell anything. Don't you feel good? Then why don't you smile? All teachers should help students to sit straight in one line. I am 65% satisfied. 35% still not content. So, what do they say in Chinese? Wait and drink the tea. The teachers have an eye on everyone, and the students also have direct eye-to-eye contact with the teacher. So it depends how we sit. It is the duty of the teacher that the room should be neat and clean. Do not put incense, agarbattis, in your yoga room. Some people like it, and some people don't. Those who like it, if there is none, they don't miss it; it doesn't matter. But one or two people are allergic. They cannot feel comfortable because of the incense. Then it's not good. The incense smell doesn't matter, but if you are allergic, then it does matter. Do you understand me or not? Don't run. I told you, when I need something, I will call. You have to practice. Yes, I am not satisfied. I don't know what to do with you. Check the back of your friend. No, no, no. Only check who is sitting behind you. Check if you are on the side or not. Are you sitting in the middle of your yoga mat? In a yoga class, if you play some music, it should be no vocal music, only instrumental—an instrumental which should be very slow. At the end of the class, ask the students, "Did the music disturb you or not?" If out of 40 people, three didn't like it because they got a headache, couldn't relax, and couldn't concentrate, and others said it doesn't matter, then in that case we should not use it. Any kind of music is only to dim the outer sound. So, do not play that kind of music, but we should respect the students if they like it. The teacher has to be at least 10 minutes before class begins and check everything: if the blankets are there. Some call it a blanket, some call it a rug, some call it a yoga mat, and some call it yoga āsana. These are different languages. In yoga language, it's called yoga āsana, my yoga āsana for practicing. Make sure if you are supplying them, they should be clean, and make sure there is no dust in them. If you are providing a yoga āsana (a yoga mat), then suggest to your students to bring one linen cloth to put on the yoga āsana. Because those yoga āsanas we are providing—who knows who was sitting on it yesterday? Was it with socks or without socks? It may transfer fungus. Therefore, we generally suggest they should come with socks and put some cloth over the mat. Also, see that the room has been aired. If you want to put agarbatti, you should do it before class begins, and five to ten minutes before class, you open the windows. You should always have an assistant teacher who can also sit at the reception. At the reception, don't talk about your car or about your problem with your husband or wife. You know, like I'm not satisfied with how you are sitting. It will be a long time work. Still, you are not sitting properly. Yes, because I can see from here. If we did not master this first point, then what will you teach to your students? I need a headset microphone so I can walk around, greet everyone, and see how they are sitting. When you come to a yoga center, your yoga ashram... but okay, then I'm not going to the yoga center to hear the same problems which I have in the office, which I have in the street, and which I have at home. Of course, you have to speak, "Welcome," and say, "Please go in the classroom and relax." That's very important. Go and relax. If you talk too much, you create those vṛttis, and these vṛttis again, during the practice, a person is having them in mind. There are some people—I have many people in Austria, because I live in Austria—and they are masters of talking with the students more than they give them practice. So, avoid worldly talks as a yoga teacher. If you talk, then talk about something which makes them happy and forgets the worldly problems. Sometimes we do, when the room is not warm enough or the air conditioning doesn't function, then we can give them body warming. The best is Kāṭuprāṇām. So many of you know what is Kāṭuprāṇām, and many of you don't know. We have two variations: Kāṭuprāṇām one and Kāṭuprāṇām two. We will do now Kāṭuprāṇām one. Sit in Vajrāsana, but check left and right if you are sitting in one line. Yes, go to the back side of your blanket, and all should sit exactly parallel. I think the cameraman should not always fix on the master. You should always fix it: a program of how people are practicing. Don't put it on anyone's face directly. The cameramen should not take anyone's face, not only the master, but also other practitioners. If possible, turn off the telephone or put it on silent. At the reception, you should write, "No taking any mobile phone," or, "Put on silent." Not allowed to take in the room any knife or any kind of arms. Also, in an ashram or yoga center, no weapons are allowed. Always when you come, please bring fresh, washed socks for your feet. 99% of people have fresh socks. And one has socks which he didn't wash for about fifteen days. It has a little similar smell to Olomouc cheese. Can you imagine? Yesterday I came by Austrian Airlines, and some person, I don't know who it was, was in India, and it seems he did not wash himself for a few days, and the socks were torn at his heels, and both big toes were out. Those who were sitting beside him, left and right, they both got up and asked the hostess if she could change the seat somewhere. They were very, very polite, and the hostess understood. So, it should not happen in a yoga class. We have to very friendly, very kindly tell the people. So, Kāṭuprāṇām number one. If I can check from here, far distance, now 92% of people are not in order after talking 20 minutes. But it will take time until you become a teacher. Here you will get the notes, and a commission will be set in every class. They will give the points, not me. From every country, one or two persons will sit and value your acting as a teacher and practicing. I am going through our yoga teachers. Who were putting you in the good places like this? They failed. They got out of 100, two and a half points. Now it's my chance, so out of 100, maybe I will get only one point. It depends on you. If you help yourself with what we want to do, so it depends on you as a teacher. Very good. Now, Vivek Purījī, I'll be Asaṅkaro. Yes, you can do it here. Take the distance. Yes, of course. Myself, get up? Yes, I do. What are you looking for? Oh, you want to move me? I'm moving. So, everybody, you can sit here and talk. So, Kāṭuprāṇām? One teacher we have now here, and his name is called Bhajan Devī. Kāṭuprāṇām number one. You come here, green. And very slowly, each posture at least one minute. Facing zone. So, Anok, begin. Many are not doing properly. Don't bend so much. Like this. Hands up. A girl, say number one, two. Two, dvē. Three, four, five, six. In the line where I'm standing, they are not in one line. So, care please. Seventy percent of you are not in the right lines. What was the number? Six already. Six, seven. You remain in this position, and I will make some corrections. So, one, two, three, four, five. You get up and go somewhere that is not near shoes. You smell. You can go somewhere that has good air. You can come this way or near me. Thank you. In the line where I'm standing, it's also not in one line. Nine, ten, eleven, stay there. The children are the best. They are very good. Oh, I wish that all grown people would be like you. Yeah, they are chocolate. Twelve. Thirteen. This line is very, not very good, like a train making a curve. Fourteen. Fifteen. Well, 90 percent... No, no,... wait, wait. I didn't say to change the posture. 90 percent, you are not in the right posture. 90% of you are not in the right position. Push your hips down, and your shoulders and chest up. More and more. Oh, my God. 90% of you are not in the right position. This is the easiest one. And I forgot the number. Fourteen. I think, yes. Fifteen. I think I forgot the number, sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen, and twenty. I missed the number. So I told you, out of a hundred, I got one. Now you see, this line is not straight. You are okay, you are okay. Only three people there, so everybody turn to my side. Yes, turn to my side. You are anyhow here, but looking to me. You will remain on your blanket, on your yoga āsana, and you will look to me. So now you turn to my side. No, that is not. Look this side. This line from here, look this side. They look to my side. Very good. Now I will choose one yoga teacher who can do perfectly Kāṭuprāṇām. Who is there? Can you offer yourself? Just demonstrating yoga Kāṭuprāṇām. Yes, please. So I will now manifest it in someone else. And coming on this table, so this is your point, okay? It's okay. Thank you. But you are sitting not in a good posture. You can go there. These lines can come here. Yes, so that you don't fall down, please. No problem, you can go on the path. Yes, come. It's okay. That you don't fall. Is it okay if you go down? It's okay. The first thing in yoga in daily life is comfort. You feel very relaxed. So, those who are sitting here on your heels, up and down, you can go somewhere where there are more places. Very soon, you will get the solution for your shoes. Okay, so you will look to him, and also, how is his back? Every posture, okay? So, you think you can go like this? You make yourself small. I told you I will manifest myself in you. Come here. Yes, so one, how, very like Vivek Purī's teaching, how you raise your hands up. So one, all please, hands down. That was like a swimming pool; everyone's hands should go same time and same speed up. Number two, don't go like this. Both hands should go on the same level. It's a training for both our hemispheres. So, hands should move on the same level. Okay, and who is perfect? One who knows everything can lie down and relax in every beautiful park. And we are all ourselves in a beautiful park, and in the park there are some little beautiful islands, and where there is a beautiful, some plants. And so we have here. Children here, there. They're like a beautiful island. How peaceful they are. They're perfect. Okay? Number one. Number two. This lady is too far. A little bit. No, you're not. Keep it. Okay. So, same time movements. So, get ready. Position. Straight. Attention. Relax. Breathe in and out. Be relaxed. And now, one hand down. It was not the same time. Again, I'm not making corrections if it is a normal class. Because you are a yoga teacher, and it's yoga teacher training. It's not upgrading, it's updating. Upgrading will be when you get a new diploma. Maybe at the end of the seminar, one hand down. It was not at the same time. Either you don't understand the language, or I can't explain it to you properly. So we try our best. So, one, you should now, at the same time. Two. Yes. Ano. We are improving. Same time. Three. And again, same time. Four. Yes. We are going up like mushrooms, one after the other, then going down again. Please. Four. And at the same time, five. Six. Seven. Somehow we are coming to the... I hope, by the time I come to my seat, I will get out of 105. Eight, many have back problems. The backs are too stiff, and we have to have some other postures to remove the stiffness of the back. This will come in our different subject of the yoga teaching in this seminar. Nine, look to the demonstrator. Ten, yes. Eleven. Twelve, thirteen. If you take a photo, only me from near? Yes, you should take from far. I'm not an important person. They are important, who are practicing. What was the number? Thirteen, yeah? Number thirteen or fourteen? Fourteen. Fingers like that, fifteen. Heels on the ground, sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. Twenty. Now you can turn to my side.