Yoga In Schools: 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008

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.

Monday, December 15, 2008

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!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

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.