Aligning the body, breath and the mind through Yoga

Yoga is a vast collection of techniques and practices aimed at integrating mind, body and spirit to achieve a state of well being. One of Yoga’s forms is in the practice of physical postures and breath related exercises for specific benefits.

Kaleidoscope announces Yoga classes from October. The classes are conducted by Suresh Kandukuri, a yoga trainer with many years of experience in India and abroad.

Hatha Yoga for general wellness and body toning.

  • Monday to Friday: 10 am to 11 am
  • Fee: Rs 1800 per month

Power Yoga for weight management

  • Monday to Friday: 11 am to 12 noon
  • Fee Rs 2500 per month

Special workshop to build immunity and resistance. This focuses specifically on lungs and immune system to prevent SWINE FLU infection.

  • Monday to Friday: 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm
  • Fee: Rs 2000

1-1 consultations and coaching is also available. Please call 98491 88020 for appointments.

Nutritionist Advice. The Yoga sessions are supported by a nutritionist’s consultation.

  • The nutritionist’s services are also available independent of the Yoga sessions.
  • Please call 98491 88020 for appointments.

Suresh Kandukuri also offers classes in pranayama, meditation, or interventions for specific kinds of issues such as gynecological disorders, stress, back pain, diabetes, thyroid problems, cervical spondylitis, arthritis, migraine, sinusitis.

If you are interested in other programs or time slots please contact him on 98491 88020 or [email protected]

We turn 10 this week!

Kaleidoscope turns 10 on September 16, 2009.

The last ten years have been a lovely trip, and we’re deeply grateful to all of you who have contributed in one way or the other to making Kaleidoscope what it is today. We keep getting pleasantly surprised – on a continuing basis – how much we’ve grown as an organization and as individuals.

We look forward to continuing our journey… We’d love your company!

The Art of Letting Go

The Alexander Technique is not so much something you learn as something you unlearn. It is a method of releasing unwanted muscular tension throughout your body which has accumulated over many years of stressful living. This excess tension often starts in childhood and, if left unchecked, can give rise in later life to common ailments such as arthritis, neck and back pain, migraines, hypertension, sciatica, insomnia and even depression.
Specifically, the Alexander Technique helps if you:
  • Suffer from repetitive strain injury or carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • Have a backache or stiff neck and shoulders.
  • Become uncomfortable when sitting at your computer for long periods of time
  • Are a singer, musician, actor, dancer or athlete and feel you are not performing at your full potential.

More information on other sites:

A short presentation by Padmini Menon, a friend of Kaleidoscope, who practices and teaches the Alexander Technique in Bangalore, India. Contact her via email

A 13 minute video on the Alexander Technique by the British Medical Journal

Muscle Testing Workshop

You unconscious mind is tremendously bigger and more capable than your conscious mind. It has records of every moment of your life, your every motivation and your every action.
How would it be if you could google your unconscious mind?!
Imagine, if you could ask your unconscious mind a question, any question, about yourself and you could get a simple, direct answer in a yes or no. For example:
  • Does my body still have traces of last year’s respiratory infection? Yes? No?
  • I think I’ve forgiven my sister for the nasty remarks she made when I was 13. Has my system really forgiven her?
  • My career is going nowehere in spite of my best efforts. Am I sabotaging myself in some way?
  • I always end with people taking advantage of my good nature. Is it that I am just too gullible?
  • I think I’m a strong independent type. Is it true?

Muscle testing is a simple mechanism to connect with your unconscious mind and communicate with binary responses.

Learn muscle testing and its many applications in this short weekend workshop. An outline of what you will learn:

Basic Muscle Testing Course Contents

1.Establishing the involuntary response

2.Muscle Testing

a. Emotional events

b. True & False statments

3.Muscle Testing as a way to communicate with the subconscious mind

4.Different positions of double testing

5.Clearing oneself to get accurate results

6.Addressing Positionalites

7.Self testing

a. Pendulum

b. O ring

c. Perlandra

d. Finger

i. Two hands

ii. Single hand

e. Throat

f. Pupillary contraction

g. Body balance

h.Weights

8.Muscle Testing substances

9.Muscle Testing using the Levels of Consciousness

a.Conditions for Consciousness Calibration

b.Muscle Testing Choices

c.Muscle Testing books, people, instituitions, objects, teachers

10.Increasing Accuracy in Muscle Testing results

Kaleidoscope on TV

Sakshi TV’s Chinnari Lokam program features a different child-related issue each week. This week’s episode was on learning, and how it can be made engaging for children. Kaleidoscope features extensively on this episode.
Featured on the show:
  • An overview of Kaleidoscope’s philosophy and approach to learning
  • Some of our activities for the 5-10 year age group, with explanations of the learning benefits of the activity
  • Some activities for the 10-15 age group, emphasizing how children can learn by doing, thinking and sharing their experiences with others.
Or if you’d rather see it on TV, there’s a repeat telecast on Friday, Aug 14 at 5.30 pm.
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BUGS Book Review

In the last BUGS session, we decided to do book reviews, starting with Erich Fromm‘s classic Art of Loving.
Erich Fromm was among other things a social psychologist, psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher. This book was written in 1956 but remains a popular read even today, for those trying to understand the nature of love, being unconditional but most importantly for those interested in the question – what does it take to create a loving relationship?
All participants are required to read the book before Saturday Aug 22. (Don’t panic, the book is a little less than 200 pages and is a fairly easy read!). The book review itself is over 4-5 days, each session focussing on different chapters of the book.
The tentative schedule:
  • Day 1: Is love an art?
  • Day 2: Love as an answer to the problem of human existence
  • Day 3: Objects of love (love between parent and child, brotherly love, motherly love, erotic love, love of self, love of god)
  • Day 4: Love and its disintegration in modern society
  • Day 5: The Practice of Love
The schedule is flexible depending on which parts the group wants to spend more time on.
If you can’t get around to acquiring a copy right now, you can download a PDF copy of the book from here (you’ll need to create a free Scribd account to get to it though…)
Email us or call us for more details

Write Right

Normal everyday writing at school – whether it is an essay, a “long answer”, a book review or a project report – can turn out to be a chore without the right tools. And very stressful.
Basic everyday writing, requires among other things, strong foundations in grammar, voabulary, sentence construction and precis writing. With these tools, children are equipped to begin writing independently, correctly, quickly and effectively. This in turn makes them more confident in dealing with their school work.
Kaleidoscope launches a 12-week Foundation Program in Writing and Grammar for children in classes 4 and 5. This is not a creative writing class – it focuses on the foundations of good writing required for general school work.

Program dates: June 16 – Sep 30.

Tuesdays and Tursdays 4.30 to 5.30 pm

Programs for June 2009

The summer programs are done and we’ve had great fun over the last few months, learning and enabling others to learn! We look forward to another great year with more programs, and more fun. 

Get ready for the new academic year – new schedules, new friends, new books, new teachers and new challenges!

Highlights for June:

 

  • New batches of *unfold*  and *e x p a n d* and Enterprise! 
  • Phonics and stories
  • Graded reading programs
  • English Grammar and writing
  • Dance
  • Chess
  • Art (drawing and painting)
  • Hindi Stories
  • Creative Writing
  • Research skills

 

 Get details of all the programs for June 2009!

Kaleidoscope Film Circle Screening

Singin’ in the Rain

English, 103 minutes.

Wednesday May 13, 2009; 3 pm – 5 pm

There is no fee. Please let us know in advance if you are attending.

Special invitation to those who have completed the Power of Voice course!

“Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. This 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It’s not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds; it’s also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry’s uneasy transition from silent pictures to “talkies.” Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image). Among the musical highlights: O’Connor’s knockout “Make ‘Em Laugh”; the big “Broadway Melody” production number; and, best of all, that charming little title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing but a few puddles, a lamppost, and an umbrella.”

Jim Emerson on Amazon.com

Want some trailers? Some of the songs on YouTube:  Singing in the rain ; Good morning ; Make ’em laugh ; Moses supposes

Interknit 2009

Interknit concluded last week. We had much fun and much learning. Participants and their parents were happy with what they did and saw – and we’d like to share it with you! 

What parents had to say:

“It was a very good experience… Even I have personally learnt a lot of things from this camp” – Ambika Burman

“Amazing, Superb! The whole idea was fun, seeing the little ones producing and then trading a good bargain was unbeleiveable” – Geeta and Gaurav Khurana

“Thank you for a wonderful program which helped my child with overall development of soft skills…” – Radhika Peri

“The program was very well structured. Interest level was high throughout the program” – Sudha Srinivas

What the participants had to say:

The main thing I liked… it’s not like a school, where we always need to be disciplined. This is the best summer camp I’ve attended ever” – Niharika Krishnan

“I got so many friends…it rocked” Ashley Preity

“I liked interknit because they had made a schedule for each day – what to do and how to do and made us play games and activities” – Krishna Modi

Interknit in pictures