Why Parents & Teachers Should be Clamoring for MIND BODY EDUCATION in PUBLIC EDUCATION
This page explains the profound benefits our children could be getting from Mind Body Education, and how it would make teachers' lives more fulfilling and vastly less stressful!
Healthier Children
Science reveals that a one-hour per day Mind Body Course in schools would dramatically improve students' health. Click here to see countless studies on Mind Body for Students, including increased immunity and much less absenteeism from illness. Mind Body reduces anxiety, depression, and overall mood disturbance ... and treats ADHD.
Improve Students' Education
Research shows regular meditators increase their IQs by 20%, while improving test scores, GRE Reading Scores, verbal fluency and math proficiency. What legitimate educator or school board member would deny Mind Body education in the face of this science?
Teachers Should be Calling for Mind Body Education
Schools that employ Mind Body already often include Teachers as well as Students, providing Teachers scientifically proven stress management benefits, who would enjoy EVEN MORE stress management from their students being calmed by Mind Body each day.
What Parents & Educators Can Do
Global Transformation Project's Petition signatures call for a non-binding United Nations Resolution advocating Mind Body Education Science be provided to Educators worldwide. BUT, our resources can be used by Parents & Teachers to convince any school board that Mind Body in Public Education should already be happening
TOOLS YOU CAN USE TO LOBBY SCHOOL BOARDS, PRINCIPLES, ETC.
Below are resources you can share today ...
Mind Body practices are proven to help treat ADD / ADHD, Anxiety, Depression & Mood Disturbance.
Mind Body can increase regular practitioners' IQs by 20%, improve GRE Reading Scores, Math Proficiency, and Verbal Fluency in students.
Mind Body reduces Bullying.
Find endless Mind Body for Education Science on the above and many other amazing benefits for our children and students.
Share examples of where Public Education worldwide has already employed Mind Body with wondrous benefits to the students' lives.
THE ABOVE INFORMATION CAN EMPOWER YOU TO APPROACH SCHOOLS, SCHOOL BOARDS, ETC. TO LOBBY FOR MIND BODY EDUCATION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION.
The science is overwhelming, this should have happened a long time ago.
REGARDING POSSIBLE CHALLENGES ...
Religious objections ...
Although the Global Transformation Project advocates the Big 5 Mind Body practices, with scientifically proven common Mind Body practices; Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness, Chi Kung, and Tai Chi ... the Founders of GTP came from Tai Chi & Chi Kung teaching primarily. In Tai Chi students are taught how to ... relax out of the way of resistance, in order to accomplish the goal with the least amount of effort.
THE GOAL IS TO TEACH SCHOOL CHILDREN HOW TO MAINTAIN THEIR NATURAL "MIND BODY CONNECTION" THAT THEY LOSE TOUCH WITH AROUND AGE 11. Mind Body is proven to enable children to stay in touch with that magical Alpha Brain Wave state they spend a great deal of time in as children when they are learning and healing at a much greater rate, than after losing it around age 11.
Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness are MIND BODY SCIENCE, not religions, and they do not require any certain way to be taught. Teaching can be flexible and adaptive to local concerns and needs. Once parents understand this, accommodations can be made to make them and their children comfortable with education on Mind Body connection. It's educational science, there is no controversy here.
HERE'S HOW THINGS WERE HANDLED IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA ... IN ORDER TO ENABLE LOCAL STUDENTS TO ENJOY ALL THE BENEFITS OF MIND BODY EDUCATION IN THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ...
WE ASKED AI ...
You are likely thinking of a famous controversy that happened at Bullard Elementary School in Kennesaw, Georgia.
The Guardian +1
In 2016, after some parents complained that classroom mindfulness practices had "religious overtones" tied to a "non-Christian belief system," the school's principal reached an agreement with concerned parents. In a letter to families, the principal announced that while stretching and breathing exercises would continue, they would ban the greeting "namaste" and stop allowing students to put their hands to their hearts or color mandalas.
WUNC News +2A Similar State-Wide Law in Alabama
Alternatively, you might be remembering a very similar, state-wide legislative debate in Alabama. 
Alabama Daily News
For nearly 30 years, Alabama had a total ban on teaching yoga in public schools. In 2021, the state passed a law to finally allow yoga in school gym classes, but only under strict restrictions. The official compromise mandated that all instruction must use English terminology for poses, and expressly prohibited chanting, mantras, and using the word "namaste". 
The New York Times +4
ALSO, REFER PTAs, SCHOOL ADMINSTRATIONS, ETC. ... TO OUR GTP PAGE SHOWING THAT MIND BODY IS ALREADY HAPPENING IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WITH GREAT SUCCESS.
