Research on Yoga in Education (UK)
About R.Y.E. (UK) -- Research on Yoga in Education (UK)
R.Y.E. was born of the union between thousand-year old Yoga and National Education, and seems promised an exceptionally bright future. Why? Because it is the response to a collective need. Into a hyperintellectualised teaching system, it brings techniques for well-being that take into account the close interdependence of body and mind.
Yoga means union. Its aim is a balanced harmony of the student's emotions, physical needs and deepest desires.
The first object, of course, is the well-being of both learner and teacher, but the quality of the apprenticeship is not neglected. We do not think that fatigue and boredom are inevitable at school. On the contrary, we believe that a happy learning experience can release important energies and, conversely, the harmonisation of energies (to which Yoga invites us) can restore enthusiasm and motivation.
Teachers have to complete ever fuller schedules while nothing is done to develop memory. Children are told: "Pay attention, now!", but we do not teach them to concentrate. This is something they need badly in a world where they are beset on every side with multiple distractions.
In order to ease attention and concentration, teachers who knows RYE's techniques can introduce in their classroom some short sessions of yoga adapted to learning environment, with the students sitting or standing between their table and their chair.
Westerners know Yoga without being consciously aware of it. A number of techniques already in current use such as natural childbirth, training for sports, psychotherapy and advanced pedagogical techniques include easily, recognisable yoga exercises, even if this origin is not always acknowledged.
Yoga is the answer to a deep need of the collective consciousness in its struggle to adapt to the stress-filled life we have made for ourselves.
RYE Training 2006 -- London & Wales
with Micheline Flak
Year One of the two year RYE training for yoga teachers and school teachers starts in January 2006. This is training in yogic techniques to use in schools to improve learning. This is the first time that Micheline Flak has agreed to do the training in English in the UK so it's an opportunity not to be missed!
Dates are 28/29 January & 4/5 March (London), 22/23 April & 20/21 May 2006 (Wales).
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Further information is available from Lynn Parrott.
Phone: 020 8693 4603
Email: lynnparrott@ryeuk.org
A Dream Come True: Yoga at School- Yoga exercises for
the classroom
by Micheline Flak PhD (RYE France)
This is the only document on RYE techniques available in English at the moment. It gives an introduction to RYE and RYE techniques.
Cost £8 plus £1.50 p&p.
Cheques should be made payable to "RYE UK" and sent to:
Lynn Parrott, RYE UK, 9 Burrow Rd, East Dulwich, London SE22 8DU.
About Micheline Flak
Micheline
Flak is the President Founder of Research on Yoga in Education (RYE) and
an International Consultant in Educational Sciences. She has been working
in the field of Education and Yoga for 30 years.
Over the past twenty years the RYE association has been working with educators around the world developing techniques and skills that enhance the learning environment within the classroom for both teachers and students.
RYE techniques will be explored and the theory behind them will be explained so that following this workshop, participants can put them into practice.
Click here to download an article on Micheline Flak's workshop in Wales last year, written by Angela Jones, Headteacher of Mynyddygarreg school.
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