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Hindu Spiritual Tools for Youth
Jul 27, 2011 Children & Youth

Hindu Spiritual Tools for Youth

The core of our study over the last week has been to find ways to incorporate Hindu spiritual tools into our daily lives to help solve the challenges that we face. We did this by having the youth share problems and then suggest solutions based on spiritual tools that they have learned. And sometimes we enacted out these problems and solutions in skits which were highly entertaining. ...

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  • Jul 25, 2011

    Hindu Youth singing "Aum Namasivaya"!

    Each evening after dinner we get together for bhajans/kirtan. The counselors lead the younger campers in some chants at the start then Muni concludes the evening of music by leading them through some bhajans. Here's a video from last night showing Muni leading them in singing "Au

  • Aug 1, 2010

    Testimonials from Campers (Hindu youth camp)

    Campers share some of what they learned at the SV Temple Hindu youth camp that took place in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.

  • We had a great camp!
    Jul 31, 2010

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    We had a great camp!

    Campers and teachers gather for a group photo in front of the Sri Venkateswara temple in Pittsburgh. Friends, friends, friends! Raghava and his little sister, Nidhi Farewells on the last day. Question and answer session outdoors with the campers. Classe

  • Classes, Clay Ganeshas & Skits (youth camp)
    Jul 29, 2010

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    Classes, Clay Ganeshas & Skits (youth camp)

    Head stand during the morning hatha yoga session that begins at 6:45am. Those who come every year to camp can get into the poses very well. The group is divided into two - boys and girls. Easan and Dandapani take turns teaching each group, alternating every day. After hatha

  • Ahimsa and our life (youth camp)
    Jul 28, 2010

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    Ahimsa and our life (youth camp)

    We've been using the book "Dancing with Siva" as our class text book. It was written by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and published by his Himalayan Academy located at Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Hawaii, USA. In today's class I talked about ahimsa (noninjury). It is defined

  • Temple visits in Pittsburgh (Youth Camp)
    Jul 27, 2010

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    Temple visits in Pittsburgh (Youth Camp)

    Two buses were hired and we all barely squeezed in there for our excursions to temple in the Pittsburgh area. Everyone is dressed in beautiful Indian outfits and looking very elegant. One of the temples we visited is the beautiful Hindu-Jain temple Everyone is happy

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