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  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.

To tentatively reserve your space: https://www.ahymsin.org/main/index.php/Contact-Us/Events-and-Conferences.html

To read more about this retreat, please visit these links:

https://www.ahymsin.org/main/index.php/2011-Youth-and-Children-s-Retreat/yoga-youth-and-childrens-retreat-december-2011.html

and

https://www.ahymsin.org/main/index.php/2011-Youth-and-Children-s-Retreat/2011-yoga-youth-and-childrens-retreat-objectives.html