Yoga & Children

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

My name is Shilpa. My association with the

group members is nearly a year long but

only as a receiver. Thanks to Dr. Ananda who motivated

me to communicate with you all to share my attempt at

making Yoga more interesting with children.

Below is the letter I sent to Amma with the details of

the Yoga exhibition titled, 'The Yoga Week'.

 

Dear Amma,

The visit to Pondicherry revived all the creativity

hidden deep within me.

In 1987 I had conducted a whole exhibition on children

and Yoga which was quite liked by all. The Times of

India group journalist had covered it and published my

interview related to it.

Somehow I did not think of doing any such exhibition

again in these last four years since I have joined

this current school where I teach Yoga.

I would do a lot of skits and demonstrations but not a

full fledged exhibition.

After seeing the devotion with which you and Dr.

Ananda handled the children the flame of creativity

was literally rekindled.

I was as if on fire.

Without any conscious attempts or plan ideas started

flowing in rather out.

I have literally eaten, drunk and slept my Yoga

exhibition where 300 plus children participated. It

was titled, “The Yoga Week”.

120 children from the primary section of age 8 and 9

put up the exhibition on Yoga and nature. How

different beings in nature are a source of a lot of

asanas.

The elder lot age 13 put up the exhibition on The

Eight Fold Path Of Yoga. We had proper stalls where

the visitors were explained the meaning of these eight

steps through songs, poems, charts, games and

dialogues by these youngsters.

The children of the age group 10, 11 and 12 prepared

sattvik recipes, dishes and sold the same in the

school canteen of an International School. All the

dishes were sold out in 15 minutes flat and we

collected an amount of Rs. 5,000 which we are donating

to an Old Age Home in our area.

 

I am attaching some of the photographs here.

 

Yours in Yoga,

Shilpa

 

SORRY!

Somehow the mail keeps bouncing back when I attach the

photos. So I will mail them later.