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Cultivating Soul Qualities: Living Wisdom for Truth Seekers

  • Ananda Temple 2171 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA United States (map)

Saturday morning with Aryavan and Lakshmi

Living an inspired life is not about accumulating knowledge or wielding outward power. True wisdom and inspiration come from cultivating soul qualities like curiosity, flexibility, creativity, and joy—expressions of our highest self.

When we approach life with a sense of play and relate to situations and others with joy and willingness, we unlock the secret to true happiness.

The guiding principles of Living Wisdom School, part of the Education for Life movement, offer timeless tools for joyful discovery. When we live from this place, everything in life improves!

In this morning workshop, we will explore the “rules” of Living Wisdom School and their relationship to the soul qualities that elevate our aspirations and lead to deeper fulfillment.

Living Wisdom School Rules

 
 

Join Aryavan McSweeney, director of Living Wisdom School, and Lakshmi LaPine as we explore and integrate the “rules” of Living Wisdom School, as well as other guiding principles of right attitude on the path Sanatan Dharma, as soul affirming attitudes for right living in daily life. Through playful exercises, flow learning, imagination, and meditation, we’ll uncover how these timeless qualities can guide us as life-long truth seekers.

Contributing members of Ananda are welcome to join the class in-person free of cost.

Fee $30

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Aryavan McSweeney

Aryavan is Director of Living Wisdom School (pre K-8) in Palo Alto. He and his wife, Ishani, come here from India where they shared EFL principles with the schools there. What became known as the EFL Inspired Schools program was based in two KG-12 schools in Gurugram, where over one hundred teachers are now practicing EFL’s child-centered approach with over two thousand students.

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Brahmacharini Lakshmi

Lakshmi is an Ananda minister and one of the co-managers of Ananda Palo Alto. She also serves as an English teacher and a mediator at a local high school, dedicated to merging mindfulness and academics in a professional setting. She is a thoughtful and delightfully engaging teacher at Ananda, as well. Lakshmi serves Ananda Palo Alto in many ways, with a rare gift for organizing major projects with ease.

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