This is the first CD from OmmShreeOm childrens yoga school.

Here we offer you a coleccion of

songs, chants and mantras ment to play, dance, meditate, practice yoga and also to heal. Except
three, there are all tracks that have taken many forms in there use along the years in OmShreeOm's
yoga clases and formations. They are as much fore children as for adults. The energy that sostains
them is bolth ancestral and new at the same time. This is as bilingual and multicultural as yoga is
and as OmShreeOm is, in evolution and expansion. I hope you like it and use it. That the magic
keeps expanding. We offer you each song with heart. They are for you and for everyone who listens,
including youre pets, clouds that pass, rocks and trees near youre house, stars and constelations in
the sky. Sing them. Share them. Let them flow. They are for everyone because we are al one. One

ENGAGE AND STRETCH

This song whas the pedagogic answer to the question: What do you do so these 30 kindergardeners
close theyer eyes while the sing om? Sitting down with their legs crossed, to the rhythm of the
song Frre Jacques we engage and stretch the muscles of the hands, the arms and the torso, in a
half moon, while we sing: engage and stretch engage and strech. We continue with twist and
turn, twist and turn, now we turn the torso and the arms making a twisting movement to the right
ant to the left. From there we return to the center and we rais the heart, the hands and the sight in a
V of VICTORY , singing This is yoga, this is yoga vast, infinite, open, yoga is EVERYYHING.
Omsheeom, om sweet om We finish with our hands in anjali mudra. We lean with reverence to
the trangle that form us: The mind falls twards the hands (the body) and twards the heart (the spirit).
This way we enter naturaly with our eyes closed in our home sweet home, our own omshreeom.

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
This mantra is very powerful. We sing in Sanskrit, the lost language of the yoguis and yoguinis of
india. Today nobody talks Sanskrit, but we do sing in this misterius language. Every silable of the
song is very important because it stimulates a different part of the mind and body and feeles. Today
it's one of the most adored mantras by yoga practicers in the world. Also, it was the invocation of
the school of yoga where I studied most. I love it's message, I love its feeling. I love what my
husband Abelardo made musicaly. I barely recognize my voice singing amongst so much beauty.

MOI JE SUIS UNIQUE

There is no one like me, nor you, and this song reminds us that. I lernt it while I tought in France
from the teacher and expert pioneer in relaxation with kids, Genevive Manent. I translated it to
spanish and sing it with all the kids and adults I can because it makes us feel good. Remembering
and celebrating that youre magnific and unique is a blessing and sometimes we forget that. Id like to
dedicate it to the reformation of the education sistem and the educators in the whole world.

THE RIVER SONG

We learnt this song in english, canoeing in the Urubamba river in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in
Cuzco, Peru. It fascinated me then and it fascinates me now. Abelardo, our musician and composer,
quikly translated it to spanish. We sung it flowing through that great river with grandmother Shirley.

Years later I found out that it was a northamerican song sung by midwifes. :) It has acompanied me
in childrens and adults classes for many, many years and with very, very much love and respect I
have sung it. May it keep flowing. May it touch profoundly every person that sings it or listens to it.
I dedicate it to my mother Rosemary and to all the mothers in the world. I dedicate it to the pregnant
woman, may her birth be natural, and if i's at home, better yet.
COTOPAXI
Grandmother Shirley Dean Khabbaz is a wise woman, of Cherokee and european blood. In the
Lakota tradition, she's a Heyoka or thunder being and we call her grandmother, as if she was
everyones grandmother, and in many ways she is. She tells us thas Cotopaxi is a volcano in
Ecuador, with gave her the song. The mountain sung her the lyrics and she, very attentive, learnt
them. It's a song of fire. It speaks of suffering and transformation. We sing honoring that power of
heat and light, to fire, because it transofrms and shows us to flow. This power lives inside the earth
and inside every one of us. Can we transform a difficult and painful situation in something positive
and beatiful? The song, and fire tell us that we can. When I asked grandmother Shirley if I could
record the song on the CD, she said yes, but only if it was acompanied by a water song. When I told
her that The River Song would form parto of the CD to, she laughed. And one day we called her on
the phone and she sung us verses from her Cotopaxi song. Abelardo mixed granmother shirleys and
my voice singing in english and Ximenas singing in spanish. The bubles heard at the beginning and
end of the song is real lava flowing.It's the sound of a mountain growing and changing. Everything
grows, everything changes. Us aswell. Even the mountain posture in yoga changes.

YORI LUMPAN
This chant is born in the Amazonian rainforest in Peru and it has the energy of the medicinal plants
and those who use them. It's an Ikaro or a healing song. The language is Shipibo and it's sung by
a northamerican woman, daughter and sister, Brittany Jade Wilson, the first student of the
OmShreeOm yaga school. Brittany formed herself as a yoga teacher for and with children at 16
years of age. She learnt this Ikaro from the Mauha family in the town of Poayan, where they have
sung it in there ceremonies since inmemorable times. It invoques the healing energy of this heritage
of healers, and there ancesters while it prepares the pacients to open and clean so soon the have
there body healthy. Hear we offer you two of the seven verses that they still sing today. Listen to it
every time youre students/children need healing. May the energy of our sisters the plants take care
of you and protects you and may you take care and protect the plants. Lets save the rainforrests of
the whole world and the indigenous people who live there.

GURU RAM DAS

I honor kundalini yoga with this song/mantra and all the yoguis that sing the kirtan, because they
are helping so many people to wake up to the healing powe of their own voices and singing. The
melody of this song is Ximeas and she sings it her self with her beautiful voice. The lively and
happy music is Abe's. It reminds me of the hours our family has spent together on the road down
long highways. We love these road trips where good music, curius storys and profound reflexion are
never scarce. This song is to dance or to sing it with joy because it's a celebration of the union of
our being with the infiite. Its a mantra of the heart, when you sing it it will make you happy
wherever you are. Guru, guru wahe guru translates to:........preguntar mas adelante..... Youre
inside mi and youre the infinite, youre love. Careful the vibration of this mantra is cantgious. I
dedicate it to my sister JQ and her dog Gu.

LOS SONIDOS DE LOS CHAKRAS

I love the sounds Abelardo uses to accompany these sacred sounds, the bija sounds or the seminal
sound of the chakras I'll tell you how Abe created all the songs. I would enter in his music studio
and sing him the songs with no instumental, just like I sing them in class. I leaved him there alone
ans free with the naked song, just a seed. And you know how artists are, with very little they
create worlds and magic universes.

Here we offer you the sounds that, thousands of years ago the yoguis of India identified as the
sounds the seven chakras inside us produce. When we sing them the chakras spin better. And now
you may ask, and why do they spin? Well because they spin :) That's the way this energy moves
inside you, in spiral. The entire uiverse moves in spiral, even our DNA. The stars and planets spin
in spiral through the universe we live in. Twist and turn, as the first son says, This is yoga, this is
yoga. You don't know very well what the chakras are? Of course, not everyone on the planet
knows. I'll tell you, they're vortexes of energy that spin inside you and inside me. We have
THOUSANDS of little chakras and seven principal ones. They're found on the central line of our
body and these are there sounds. Singing them you'll feel better. Guess there color, you know what
there called? In the next song you'll find the answer! Tip: sing them often.You'll like it and feel
good. ATTENTION: You can also see them spin, hold a pendulum lightly over them and see for
your self. It looks like magic, we are magic.

SOMOS UNO, WE ARE ONE

I wrote the first verse of this song in a homeschooler mom moment of inspiration. I wanted to
teach my sons the order of the planets in our solar sistem. I thought, of course, lets sing them! It
even helped me to memorize them.
In that time I had been reciting the Buddist mantra of 100 silables VajraHeruka. It's a purification
mantra. The verse that I had learnt of the mantra fit perfectly with the names of the planets. More
than a song it's a guided meditation or visualization ment to remind us that in the end we are all one.
We are all made of the same raw material and, like the universe, we are in continuos expansion.
There is no duality. 1X1=1
You can sing it or you can listen with your eyes closed, visualizing the images that wi sing out of
you... Wen you get to the chorus we are one, somos uno take the images inside you, assimilate
them, make them part of you. The planets, one by one, the colors of the rainbow, the colors of the
skin, the sanscrit names of the chakras, one by one. We are one, somos uno. Inside you. Some
people like to imagine them entering their heart, others through their third eye and others through
all of their skin. Notice how you feel after. One. Uno.
REMEMBER: Abe says that the efect betters if you hear it with earphones.

OMMMMMMMMM
This Ommm is a gift for you and yours. Yes, Share it. There is nothing more boautiful than
hear and sing om in group, right? Enjoy it. It's transatlantic, internacional. Us who sing are from
southamerica (Amaru and Natan, San pedro de Atacama, Chile), Northamerica (Lili: Austin, Texas
and Alex and Me: NYC, New York) and Europe (Ayala: Innsbruck, Austria and Marcelo: BCN
Spain). It was recorded in Granada, Spain, in our house. The marvelous sound of Insects,
anphibians and birds are from the amazon forest. With permission we recorded them in Tambopata,
Peru, in the year 1997, close to where the Yori Lumpana family lives. And where aer you from?
Where do you live? Where are you singing om? Write us and tell us! If you want. In facebook we
are Yoga para nios o OmShreeOm

ES PURITO AMOR
Es purito amor is my favorite song of love. It's the song of love that I most like because it came
from the heart of a man in one of the four corners of the world and it spread just like that the
mistery. Ommm is also like that, om is pure love. We dedicate it to all the teachersof OmShreeOm,
just like it was dedicated to us by one of them. Thanks Luis! Love, Christine.

AGRADECIMIENTOS
I thank everyone who put there love so this first OmShreeOm CD could be born, specialy:
Grandmother Shirley Dean Kabbaz, Judith Facio Navarra, Angelika Ennemoser, Brittany Jade
Wilson Tiki, Nathan Amado Ortega Frank, Amaru Paz Ortega Frank, Ricardo Passos, Ayala
Colasse and Ximena Hidalgo Vazquez. Thank you to all the teachers and all the students of
OmShreeOm Who have given so much life to these songs. Thank's to my childen for letting me sing
them with them until they got tired. Over al thank's to Abelardo Oquendo Herad and the musical
spirit that lives in him. Thanks to his inpiration, work and love, these songs can reach thousands of
children and adults all over the four corners of the world. Thanks to all the beings that live on the
planet earth and the spider web of life that holds us together. Thank you to yoga that has shown me
almost everything about this union.