• Table of Contents
  • Meditation Center Consecrates Its New Havan Kund (Sacred Fire Pit)
  • The Cows are Here! SRSG Receives New Residents
  • Sitting with the Swami
  • October 2009 TTP Report
  • Planting the Precious Seed - Children and Yoga
  • An Insight –Seeing Tour Around Himalayan Temples
  • Vedic Sacred Art
  • Upcoming Events
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of SRSG on the Globe
• Ahymsin Newsletters Archive

Planting the Precious Seed - Children and Yoga

Dearest Family,
 
Within the last several months a number of members in our global community have made glorious efforts to gather children into their local communities and serve them with the teachings of Gurudev. Swami Veda has communicated that he is very pleased to see these sorts of projects happening all around the globe and would like to encourage all of us to take the initiative to welcome the younger generation into our tradition by offering more children, youth and family based activities in our centers.
 
As you may already know, Swami Veda is planning to gather all of the children and youth together on Dec. 22-31, 2011 for the International Yoga Youth and Children's Retreat (YYCR) in Rishikesh, India. If you haven't done so already please help spread the word to all "young people" in your local community and offer them continual reminders to plan ahead for this event. With honest effort and intention, starting from now, all children will be able to attend this retreat with Swami Veda Bharati and meet children from The Himalayan Tradition found all around the world!
 
It is very important that we plant this seed from now and prepare the younger generation, not only to make this pilgrimage to India, but to know how to make the most of their time there, so that they can continue to live and share the teachings with others in the future.

At this time, we are predicting that there will be hundreds of children attending this event, from various countries, speaking many different languages. As you can imagine, there will be quite a diversity of Cultures. Children from various countries will interact very differently with the environment, the adults, and each other etc. Please keep these things in mind while preparing yourselves and your children to attend.
 
If you haven’t done so already please contact here to tentatively reserve your space. (Formal Registration Coming soon!) In the meantime we invite you to please view our new website children.ahymsin.org (soon to be a multilingual site!). To submit news articles and share your photos contact lila here.