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  1. A Fall That Became A Blessing

    It all started with a fall. Sunita, carrying her four month new daughter Drishya, was walking down the moss filled stony path leading to the road when she suddenly slipped. She fell with the little girl in her hand, and both injured their head-a bit sever ...
  2. Breathing for relaxation

    Christchurch "refugee" Maggie Murray couldn't breathe properly for eight months following the September 4 earthquake in 2010. "You live in Christchurch walking around almost holding your breath," Maggie says. "In my mind I was OK with these earthquakes, 'I ...
  3. Yoga, deep breathing used to address soldiers' post-traumatic stress

    Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war. The memories haunted him when he was awake, too. About six months after his deployment, he was driving at night when a sudden burst of lightning snapped him back to Baghdad and the bomb tha ...
  4. Bogotá Meditates

    On 09 August 2012, the Art of Living volunteers in Colombia made history and gathered 4000 people to meditate, in an event called Bogotá Meditates. This massive meditation took place in Plaza la Santamaría, the old bullfighting ring where just a few of mo ...
  5. Towards A Fresh Breath of Life

    Have you observed what happens when rain falls on parched earth? When the skies open up to a free fall of unbiased, all encompassing, loving, fresh rain? That is what Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji’s visit was to Assam when he visited the state on August ...
  6. Violence lingers, yet love conquers

    Day 15 in Assam. Trauma continues, here and there, in bits, pieces, and chunks. Miscreants loaded in trucks, jeeps, and bikes; men, women, and children with torches in hand, chasing the villagers, looting their houses, and then charring them to ashes. Mis ...
  7. Love In The Time of Insurrection

      How simple it is, to characterize an event as black, or white. This is exactly how the sordid Assam riots have been viewed, or made to be viewed. ‘Communal, anti-national and violent,’ have been the common sentiments, printed or verbal. But the truth li ...
  8. Revolution for Education

    A revolution for education. 618 free schools in rural, tribal and slum areas of India are teaching thousands of first-generation learners. Imagine a world in which children from rural areas, tribal areas, and slums are able to receive free school educatio ...
  9. Education- Approach

    Introduction School education is the first environment outside the home where a child learns to interact with others. Therefore, it is very important for the school environment to be as comfortable and friendly as possible. The impact of education on comm ...
  10. Dharma Stambha Yojana

    Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 's vision of a stress-free society is the founding vision behind the Art of Living and its sister organizations. This vision translates into action in two important ways: various large-scale social transformation projects ...