With parents working long hours, the already sketchy nuclear family survives on minute windows of 'quality time’. Young parents look to the child’s school to provide care, nurturing, stimulus and inspiration…. to "deliver the finished product”, as it were.

Credible surveys have found contemporary learning to be rote-based, taking place in watertight compartments with little relation to life. The school simply churns out neat little beings that speak correctly, follow rules, sing rhymes, and rattle off factoids about Continents and Constitutions.... yet all the while, the beautiful wiring INSIDE them lies neglected and untended.

An easy answer to fears of encouraging bigotry has been for schools to abandon moral and spiritual instruction altogether..... effectively throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We see people everywhere growing into set patterns of negativity and only after being buffeted by life's storms "finding" spirituality and trying to straighten out their lives.

Einstein’s revelation that the Universe is composed of ‘Energy’ rather than ‘Matter’ validates the ancient Vedic premise that this Dwapara Yuga that we live in is, indeed, the Age of Energy.

Dihika uses the eternal principles of Yoga Vedanta to provide a spirit-centered learning environment that takes into account this new Energy Paradigm, using techniques continuously refined in the Living Wisdom Schools in the United States. A central part of the curriculum is teaching a child how to be aware of his own energy and how to harness it towards what he is trying to accomplish.

For nearly 40 years, the Education for Life® Foundation has successfully run Living Wisdom Schools in America and Italy. Students score an average of 2 years ahead of their age levels on nationwide exams. They exhibit an ability to approach life in a balanced, joyful manner. They are taught life skills such as collaboration and conflict resolution. They know how to laugh, they trust themselves, they practice kindness and are lifelong learners.

With no more than 12 pupils to a class, teachers are able to assess each child’s academic progress and personal growth on a continuing basis and to set up his learning based on his personal rhythm.

With a daily spiritual practice (meditation, chanting, visualisation) to center herself & deepen awareness, the EFL Educator sees her students as soul companions who need her support, leadership and love. She is trained to guide students in every instance from reactions of fear toward courage, from judgment toward compassion, from sadness toward joy.....a directionality of attitude that EFL calls Progressive Development.

The first of many Living Wisdom Schools soon to be established in India, Dihika is run by the EFL Foundation of California and teachers are extensively trained and certified from there. The Program Coordinator Nancy Kendall (‘Santoshi’) and Founding Principal Sandy McDivitt (‘Priya’) are seasoned American  EFL educators with heightened Indian acculturation. With three teachers trained in the US to open this school, we intend to add a grade each year, going up to the 5th grade. An EFL Teacher Training Program will soon be set up on the Premises.

It is the inspiration and loving guidance of the very architect of the EFL system, J. Donald Walters (‘Nayaswami Kriyananda’), that has shown us how nebulous concepts like Goodness and Kindness and Joy can not only be consciously grasped, but also translated into techniques and "taught" so that for every child in our care, learning itself becomes a passion.

Welcome to Dihika:Living Wisdom School.

Priti Mishra Issar had her early schooling in the UK and has traveled and lived all over the world. She holds a Master's degree in English  Literature and a Bachelor's in Education. In search of a system that joyously taught young children how to be successful human beings, she found in J Donald Walter’s Education for Life the most effective combination of the spiritual wisdom of India with the material efficiency of the West.