This series is based on the story One Fine Day. I would recommend reading this story to the children from the actual picture book if possible because the illustrations are so lovely in telling the story. The children in our crew had me read them the tale many many times even when we were not doing yoga and rarely wanted to do the series without reading the book.
As usual we light our candle and say our verse. Then, in this instance, I read the story. When it was over I asked the children to help me tell the story again.
First we sat with crossed legs and took a few deep breaths.
Then we remembered how the fox came through the woods and drank the old woman's milk. She was mad and cut off his tail. ( so we inhaled, rolled over our knees placing our hands on the ground and came into down dog)
Next we remember how if the fox wanted his tail back, he needed to replace the milk. He asks the cow for milk ( we come down onto all fours, pushing our tailbones and crown of the head towards the sky, we let our belly hang towards the earth)
The cow asks for grass in exchange for the milk ( we bring our legs between our hands and come to sitting with our legs extended. Then, reaching our hands above our heads, take a deep inhale- on the exhale we fold forward reaching towards the toes while keeping our backs nice and long and straight)
Now the grass needs water. So the Fox goes and asks the river for water for the field. (We inhale, and bring our arms all the way up, exhale as we lie on the floor with our arms stretched over our heads)
The river cannot give water without a jug to hold it. (Inhale and try to come all the way up to sitting bring your hands up over your head, once sitting, place them beside your thighs and hop up into a squat, hands in prayer)
The maiden with the jug would like a little blue bead, so the fox finds a peddler with a cart. (Step your feet into down dog, inhale, then as you exhale lift one leg into the air behind you. Take three breaths through your nose and then repeat with the other leg)
The peddler has asked for an egg in exchange for the bead, so fox finds a hen. (Come into child's pose, placing your chest on your knees, your forehead on the floor and your arms by your sides reaching toward your feet)
The hen will need grain to give an egg, and Fox finds a miller. By this time Fox is frantic, and the miller is kind and gives him the grain he needs. (Rise up, hands in prayer and bring them over head like a stalk of grain, then inhale, bring hands to heart center on the exhale and bow the head)
At this point in the story the fox then needs to take the items and exchange them with the other animals, so we go through the series again in reverse. Ending in down dog where the fox receives his tail back from the old woman. He is happy and goes to join his friends.
