SAIIER Annual Report 2014-2015: Eluciole Circus
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Introduction
Entity::Eluciole Circus offers circus performance training, aerial yoga, silk, trapeze, lyra, gymnastics, acrobatics, theater, dance, acro yoga, balance and concentration work, coordination, juggling and more.
Description of project
Groups of children from few Auroville schools including TLC, Kindergarten, Nandanam, and Transition came every week to Eluciole Circus. The schedule for schools was organized in the beginning of July before the start of the school year.
Other classes were offered for children and young adults from ages 5 to 15 throughout the week. Some workshops were organized for adults over the course of the year.
During classes the children have the support of many different artistic materials which help in developing many different skills and qualities. Through the activities and exercises the mind is in a meditative state while the body express the divine spirit.
Outcomes
Through their activities with Eluciole Circus the children develop control and discipline of the functioning of the body, toward an integral, methodical and harmonious development of all the parts and movements of the body. They also develop the power of concentration and the capacity of attention. They develop the beautiful qualities of confidence and trust .
Reflections (Kalou)
I can really see the progress of the children, in many different ways, after they have been practicing for a few years. I started to give them some goals to realize this year - they love it!
Future direction
Next year we will focus more on aerial work, flexibility, acrobatics, dance, and especially Aerial Yoga, to help the body conscience to grow, to become more strong, and to develop the universal conscience.
I would like to develop the Aerial Yoga for children and adults in Auroville. Aerial Yoga revolves around counteracting gravity. By relieving compression due to the pull of gravity while on the ground, the spine is elongated and the shoulders straightened. The few inches of suspension in the air releases tension on the bones and muscles, increasing flexibility. This practice uses a soft trapeze that lifts the body off the ground and at the same time allows for Yoga movements.
I want to mix some body expression (dance), some theater, even some live music and singing in our activity. This is our yoga: expressing the divine in all the possibilities of the human body!
Conclusion
Auroville is a place where children and adults can learn many different forms of expressing the divine through arts. The Circus is an effort to help the children to go deeper inside themselves and to be in touch with their divine part. Through it emerges Transformation, Art, Creativity, Joy, Balance, Harmony, Love, Magic, Happiness, Divine light.
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