San Diego Private Elementary School Hatha Yoga and ATB

Yoga and ATB

The Hatha Yoga and the Awareness through the Body (ATB) programs address the students' need for Self-Knowledge, and are two of many unique components of our Integral Education curriculum. In Yoga and ATB, children become aware of themselves and the various parts of their personality: body, mind, heart, and soul. This is done through the cultivation of what is known as the "witness consciousness" which is that part of us that can observe and understand the movements of all these parts of our being. In fact, when speaking of the development of this self-awareness in his book, The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle said,

"The process that I have just described is profoundly powerful yet simple. It could be taught to a child, and hopefully one day it will be one of the first things children learn in school. Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you – and you "understand" it by experiencing it – you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool." (The Power of Now, p. 41)

Awareness through the Body has been developed at the international township of Auroville, in South India, over many years. For more information about ATB, please visit the Auroville ATB web pages here.

http://www.auroville.org/research/awareness/body_introduction.htm