International Children's Camp

Yogic Discovery for Children and Young Teens

Sign up information

The camp accomodates children and young teens between 7 and 14 years.

Sun 15th – Sun 22nd August 2010
Please arrive around 5pm.The camp ends Sunday after breakfast.
Upon request car sharing can be arranged.

Registration: Dev Suroop Kaur (Annette Stumpf)
Telefone: +49-9360-1737
Email: kids@amrit-nam-generation.org

Program

For the fourth time, our international children’s camp will take place at Karta Singh’s premise “Le Martinet” in the Alps in the south of France one week after the end of the Yoga Festival from the 15th to the 22nd of August. Le Martinet, situated in a valley surrounded by pine tree forests and with a small mountain stream, offers a beautiful environment for the activities awaiting the children. There’s wood for carving bows, starting a camp fire and a lot of room for practicing Yoga, painting, hiking etc. The week is dedicated to the Five Elements fire, water, air, earth, and ether, which can be explored sensually in the great outdoors. The camp will be led by three Yogis and Yoginis and their assistants, who all have a longtime experience in working with children.

And the parents?

For the parents, too, there are interesting possibilities of having a good time. On the grounds at the same time there is the Eveil de Soi week of Amrit Nam Sarovar, there is the beautiful La Fontaine a piece of land owned by 3HO Europe 2 hours of driving away, inviting to relax and ground yourself. Or rather a holiday at the Mediterranean sea?

What the children need to bring

Sleeping bag – Air mattress – Camping mat or fur for Yoga – Blanket for meditation and relaxation – Rain clothes and rubber boots/Wellingtons – Firm shoes suitable for hiking – Suncream – Sun shade or other headdress – Foreign health insurance papers – Children’s identity card – Torchlight with batteries, and batteries for change – Clothes for a week – Swimming things (with towel) – Products for personal/oral hygiene only biological – Something to cuddle (if necessary) – No money (since there is no way of spending it)

Day Schedule for the Children’s Camp

Morning: Children’s Sadhana
Plenum: Here we talk about what is going to happen during the day, what kind of activities are being offered and the well-being of everybody. Activities are, for example: painting, Gatka, workshops about various Yogic topics and, of course, games.

Noon break: After lunch the children can listen to a story, massage each other or simply lay beneath a tree and enjoy themselves.

Afternoon: Workshop, Yoga, Games

Evening: Dinner, Guest teachers (Karta Singh), Bedtime Story, Sleep

Possible Workshop Topics

• The Five Elements: What they are and what we have got to do with them
• Archery with selfmade bows
• Seva: What it is and why we should do it, trying what it feels like to serve unselfishly
• Cooking and beaking bread
• Art courses: music instruments, dreamcatcher, body painting, theater: play about the Five Elements
• Healing: Getting into contact with nature’s beings, reading aura
• Making fire in the wilderness
• Sweat lodge: building and dwelling in it (naturally, under conditions different from those with grown-ups)
• Forest day: building huts, collecting wood, choosing a piece of wood for the bow etc.
• Mountain day: We climb up the hill in the afternoon, prepare the night’s camp, sleep there and walk back after breakfast.

Teachers

 Muktiar Kaur

I got to know Yoga at the age of 20. As a certified teacher for yoga for children I have been teaching yoga for children for 10 years. I also did the Teacher Training Level 1 and 2 with the Amrit Nam Sarovar School.

For 15 years I have been working as an educator in a kindergarden in Hamburg where I applied non-violent communication with the children. For 2 years now I am a freelance yoga teacher for children in every age. I also teach them Gatka.

I participate in the Teacher Training for Yoga for Children with 3HO Germany. I am experienced in planning and organizing camps for kids and teens.

Suraj Singh

Suraj Singh, 49, father of 4 nearly grown-up daughters, husband of Siri Pritam Kaur Khalsa.

On our little farm we run a yoga school and offer pedagogic adventure experiences and outdoor trainings with “freiRauM”. I love working in nature because it offers us the opportunity of learning in a wonderful way. Just as in Kundalini Yoga the 2 principles of challenge and of experiencing one´s limits are in the center.

I am working part-time as a social worker and sexual educator in an advisory board. Over 20 years of experience in different areas of work with children, teens and adults. 10 years of freelance pedagogic adventurer and trainer in a high rope garden.

I am looking forward to meet with the children and have wonderful interactions in an ideal surrounding.

Dev Suroop Kaur

Born in Germany in 1965, mother of 17 year old daughter. Bachelor of Fine Arts and studie of Musical Therapy. Lived abroad in France, US, Japan. Kundalini Yoga Teacher since 2000. Training with Amrit Nam and 3HO, Level 1 and 2, Yoga for Children and pregnant women, numerology with Karam Kriya.

Within the children's camp I am responsible for communication and artistic expression: juggling between German, English and French. Connecting through music, playing the guitar/harp, engaging children fully into Sadhana meditations, meditation of the day and other songs. Inspiring their visual expression with all kinds of different materials found in nature or activities like painting, felting, sewing, paper making. There are no limits!

But what is really important to me is guaranteeing the respect for nature and for each other. To accept all our strengths and weaknesses. That we are all one and that not much luxury is necessary to feel happy and a wonderful part of this creation.

Also, I will be dealing with all applications. Please feel free to contact me any time for all questions.