All is calm in the nursery

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 17 July 2008

Children at an Essex nursery are learning how to meditate as part of a new project to see if it helps them to relax and feel calmer.

Ravi Bhanot, co-owner of Clayhall Nursery in Ilford, said he hopes to extend the scheme to other local nurseries, running subsidised training sessions for practitioners. The group of three- and four-year-olds have been meditating for a few minutes each day after lunch for the past week. Mr Bhanot is director of the Ayurveda Institute of Europe. Ayurvedic medicine, which originated in India around 5,000 years ago, includes meditation. Mr Bhanot believes that teaching young children how to manage...

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