Elevating and Serving the Future
Development Office
Sikh Dharma considers each child of our global community to be a potential leader who holds our future and that of the earth in his or her hands. Our many women’s, children’s and youth programs build self-esteem and expand individual, group and universal awareness. We provide values of commitment, honesty, inner strength, compassion and kindness to all. Our innovative technology offers an expanded awareness and an alternative lifestyle to the prevailing modern culture of drugs, sex and violence. We believe that only by teaching our children to live consciously, in harmony and drug-free can we uplift the planet and create a future free of hunger, disease and global conflict.
Schools
Our educational programs for primary school through college provide quality education and whole life learning. These programs often include foreign travel for global awareness and service programs to build community consciousness.
Preschools are located in cities such as Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles and Boston and provide a setting for integrated, holistic learning in a secure, safe environment. These schools combine the Montessori or Waldorf techniques and other progressive educational methods with Sikh Dharma teachings about yoga, diet and spiritual values. Our programs welcome Sikh and non-Sikh children alike.
Camps
Youth camps in New Mexico and upstate New York are offered in constructive, safe, yet physically and mentally challenging environments. These camps have a unique spirit and caring, joyous atmosphere. The programs teach values common to all religious traditions and offer children an opportunity to feel their excellence, to develop individual integrity, collective consciousness, creativity, grit and grace in environments which support and encourage their identity as spiritual beings, protect their natural innocence and dignity, and ensure their health and well-being. Graduates often go on to become counselors.
Our teen camp in New Mexico focuses on "outward bound" wilderness-type training and team building to build self-esteem, inner strength, discipline and self-identity, so they may have the tools to live as leaders in the world community. We offer opportunities for discussion in a safe, trusting environment to encourage communication between generations and to offer values and technologies which can serve as an alternative to the drugs, sex and violence many teens are faced with in our modern culture. The times require a lifestyle of awareness, one that cultivates our inherent gifts and capabilities and allows us to live with clarity and vitality to face the challenges and stresses of our fast paced world. Our goal is to offer a nurturing, stimulating environment which will build the foundation to live healthy, happy and productive lives.
Adult Education
Our classes, seminars, conferences and camps offered in hundreds of locations and centers worldwide, present techniques of stress release, nutritional and herbal therapies to heal and maintain health, ways of overcoming addictions and achieving weight loss, massage techniques, hydrotherapy, exercise and Yoga, meditation and mental focusing. We take a look at traditional values from a fresh perspective, offering classes in marriage, male/female relationships, child raising and personal counseling with the emphasis on presenting ways to enable people to heal and uplift themselves and those around them. The goal: to be able to fully access one’s inborn capacity to live a balanced, healthy and happy life.
Classes include simple, effective techniques using the breath, mental focus and exercise to bring about rapid and powerful changes in the quality of the life experience. This increases effectiveness in the home and work place and expands the individual’s capacity to meet life’s challenges with neutrality and grace. By uplifting those searching for new ways to improve their quality of life, the effects will spread to their families, communities and ultimately our global community, promoting harmony and understanding worldwide.
Spiritual Conferences
We offer a variety of camps and intensives designed for personal transformation. Based on the science of Humanology, the science of living to one’s fullest potential as a human being, and dedicated to accessing the excellence within the individual, these camps offer extensive training in physical, mental and spiritual skills and lifestyle development.
Weekend Intensives, White Tantric Yoga Courses, Summer and Winter Solstice Camps and Yoga Festivals are a few samples of ongoing camps that Sikh Dharma offers each year to thousands of participants worldwide. These provide an opportunity to practice yoga and meditation, eat a healthful vegetarian diet, take many and varied classes in healing arts and to network with people from around the world.
Women’s Training Camp
We offer many women’s classes, seminars, books, tapes and Women’s Training camps worldwide. The child’s first teacher is the mother and she provides the foundation on which the rest of the child’s life is built. By uplifting the mother, the child’s focus and destiny in this life can be profoundly affected. Starting in the womb, she determines the child’s physical health, mental well-being and spiritual values. We provide women with a wealth of information and techniques to develop their own inner strength, grace and talents so that they may create healthy, secure, happy children who are equipped to live life to its fullest potential.
Since women are the foundation of values, grace and the spiritual consciousness of the planet, thousands of women set aside time each year to live in a natural environment to rejuvenate themselves physically, mentally and spiritually. Presently Women’s Training Camps are offered every summer in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe.