Preparations for mother's day, 2010

The children at Taichung Special School of Education are getting ready for the Friday Mother's Day function with an exciting yoga performance!

Yoga & Meditation Camp - Joufen

Mother Day Yoga Show - Daming elementary School, specal kids class

Our special kids yoga club did a simple but well executed yoga show at their school today, as part of the Mother day celebration.

All the children and teachers too, did a wonderful job!

Thanks!

Taichung Special School - Mother Day Yoga Show Preparations

Yoga works for everybody. Over the past few months I had the privilige to teach some yoga ideas to the second graders of this senior high School in Taichung. They are doing it very well. They have developed mobility, strength and coordination. Their sense of balance has improved tremendously and their behavior seems to have become more mature and aware.

Yama Niyama curriculum for KG

Yama and Niyama are part of the Yoga discipline. They are guidelines for daily life and personal growth, and indispensable for any one aiming to develop a life devoted to nurturing the inner self.
Yama and Niyama are also part of the school curriculum of New Humanist Education. We are now preparing ten little booklets with a story for each topic of the guidelines and hope to publish them before the start of the next semester (August 2009). The teacher guide called 'Values of Love' is already done. The Arunima is currently drawing the pictures of the central character in these ten tales, all based on Superbunny. We will let you soon know more about Superbunny and his publishing adventures!

Yoga with 90 Upwithpeople- volunteers

About 90 people from all over the world did yoga in the park of Fong chia University, Taichung. They came to Taiwan to learn about the culture and get to know how people do service here. The Yoga helped them find some personal balance in their busy schedule. They said they liked it a lot. I sure did too!

Handicapped People Yoga - Taipei

In Taipei there are a lot of handicapped Yoga classes. It was my first time to share my yoga experience with them. The time seemed to fly as we went through the class. They all did good!

Education of Peace through Yoga - Workshop February 14/15

We had a wonderful workshop on Yoga in Schools in Taipei, with most sincere and inspiring teachers. Geeta organized the program and we all enjoyed her care and planning. The workshop covered four subjects:

Yoga and Western anatomy (with special focus on the link between muscle lines and meridians)

Yoga concept of the mind and child development/ pedagogy.

How to help handicapped/ special children with yoga.

How to integrate yoga into the school system.


The weather and environment were so fine that we did some nice stretching out under the trees.

Our next workshop will be March 8th, in Taichung. The focus will be on KG and elementary schools.

January Tainan workshop

We had a small, but nice workshop in Tainan about Education of Peace, with storytelling, songs, yoga and discussions for growing more peaceful schools and families.

The program was organized by Susana and I-huei from Yilin Bookshop. We will have a follow up program in April! Thanks for your many years of support.

Yoga workshop - Taipei

Every fourth Sunday of the month we have a free workshop for parents and their kids and we do some yoga and meditation together.

If you like to join, call the Handicapped Yoga Association, Taiwan.

The Education of Peace (draft) now online!!!!!!!!!!

The Education of Peace, the outline for an education that grows peacefulness and a healthy intellect is now available online. Follow this link:



http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/5999260/2kuvrsnryp7xo5u3p34f

Please send us your ideas and suggestions!!!!!

Double Yoga - some ideas

Every yoga class for Kids should have some fun yoga activities which at the same time help in stretching. Here are some ideas you may consider for your classes too!

Junior High School Yoga workshop - Taipei

On December 20th we will conduct a Yoga workshop for Junior High School Students as part of their Leadership Training Course. The program will include an introduction to Yoga and how it can bring Peace to one's individual life, as well as the role of Yoga in transforming society.

The main purpose is to give the students a vision that may inspire them to look for meaning in life, and use personal transformation as the basis for social change.

Shrii P.R. Sarkar explained in his writings that if around the age of twelve the pituitary plexus becomes more active. If at that age one can receive spiritual training, and learns to direct the mind, then their whole life will be successful. The leadership training course is an important part of our Yoga in Schools future activities!

Special Yoga for Senior High School Kids

Our class at the National Special education School in Taichung takes place every Tuesday afternoon from 1.40 pm to 3.10. We currently train more than ten young men and women in discovering their body through yoga techniques. We are volunteers. If you would like tohelp, please contact Tang: 04-25690656

Teacher Training in Taichung

Every two months we have Kids Yoga Teacher Training in Taichung. We practice kids yoga techniques and share ideas for stories, props, games and management of the children. The course is for six months and also includes aspects of special kids yoga.

If you would like to join, please contact Mamata: Tel: 04-22435903

The Education of Peace

Yoga is a path of resolving inner conflicts and bringing about the inner peace that can sustain a social peace. This is a wonderful concept and our generation has to work hard to bring this into the society. One first important step is to offer Yoga concepts to the teachers. An introduction to teachers is presented in The Education of Peace, and covers ten areas:

1. The role of Consciousness in the development of the Mind
2. The curriculum has to be ideal based to give it meaning
3. Values are at the core of the curriculum.
4. Bio-pyschology and Yoga offer the balance necessary for a peaceful body and mind
5. Quiet Time Exercises help develop intelligence and resolve inner conflicts
6. Intelligence develops through dialogue and introversion
7. How to work with different personalities in the classroom
8. Universalism is the foundation for a holistic social vision
9. Arts training as part of the academic curriculum
10. The role of the Teacher and Peace Circles.

If you would like to read the the manuscript with more details or attend a training on the Education of peace, please contact Yoga in schools, Taichung.

Teacher Tang meets Dadaji Shambhushivananda

Dadaji is the global head of the New Humanist Education movement, the most widespread organization that promotes yoga in schools in this world. He visited Taiwan to explain the role yoga inspired concepts can play in the transformation of the society, especially in establishing sustainable communities. Peace, he says, can only be achieved when there is inner and outer ecology. That means the development of spirituality on the one hand and a lifestyle that is in harmony with nature on the other.

Teacher Training in Kaoshung

This weekend we completed the training of Kids Yoga teachers in Kaoshung. Some of the activities included :

• Kindergarten kids Yoga
• Elementary school Kids Yoga
• Special Kids Yoga
• Body work with hands - Polarity Therapy

Some of the pictures of the training can be seen here!