
 
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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