Press Release Lecture: “How to help children concentrate and develop self-control and self-discipline”

International Public Fund “The Roza Otunbayeva Initiative” is conducting lectures on meditation techniques, which could be successfully used and integrated in the work of child pedagogy for the development of artistic potential, identification of hidden individual talents, improvement of child performance, the development of techniques for coping with stress, and for the focusing of a child’s attention on completing given tasks and individual assignments (such as reading, counting, games, etc.). 

The program will consist of speeches by certified instructors in tai chi, chi gung, kundalini and ashtanga yoga with experience in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, India, China, Thailand, Italy and Great Britain. 

Lecture themes: Methods for using yoga techniques (kundalini and ashtanga) chi gung, and tai chi for improving psychological adaptation of children in elementary school. Specialists will speak about how yoga and tai chi help open hidden potential in young children (self-confidence, intuition, self-control, self-expression, and artistic ability); how to use techniques such as visualization, breathing, pressure points, gaze focusing, and concentration on points of the body, sounds, colours and objects, and affirmations for completing required tasks. There will also be presentations on the influence of yoga meditation techniques, spiritual practices and tai chi on children with allergies, on the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems of people, on the five parts of the brain and on the development on qualities of the individual. 

Trainers: Maken Isanov, Nadezhda Isakova, Olga Tarabashkina, Jamilya Jeenbaeva 

Date and time of lectures: 17 December 2012, 13.00 – 17.30 

Location: Bolshoi zal, Kyrgyz Nation University named for Arabaeva