Curriculum

Tentative Summer Curriculum

Welcome to our tentative summer curriculum. This is the curriculum for the yogi program and mentorship training program, both adult programs. The Seeker program (one-on-one mentorship) has a similar curriculum, but it is dynamic and personalized for each child. Since the program is ongoing, this is the curriculum for the next 12 weeks of summer. New topics will be added each week after the summer, and reviews of the old topics will be added as well.

Participants: Yogis, Mentors, and Community Guests

Age: Adults >= 21 years old

Skill Level: Accessible to Beginners, applicable to Advanced

Suggested Member Daily Routine

15 minutes of Morning Heart Meditation
15 minutes of Reading from the Book List
15 minutes of Spiritual Mathematics
15 minutes of Mathematical Coding

Spiritual Mathematics (1 meeting per week)

Week 1: Pi and TAU, Angles, Circumference of a Circle
Week 2: Intuitive Area of a Circle
Week 3: Intuitive Multiplication and Perfect Squares
Week 4: Binary Counting, Fibonacci, Doubling, Factorials
Week 5: Transcending Base Systems in Arbitrary Bases
Week 6: Direct Perception of the Slant Area of a Cone
Week 7: The Number i and Complex Numbers
Week 8: The Number e (Limit Definition)
Week 9: The Number Phi
Week 10: Pascal’s Triangle (Pyramids and Hyper-Pyramids)
Week 11: The Mandelbrot Set
Week 12: The Julia Set

Meditation and Spirituality (1 meeting per week)

Week 1: Building a Routine
Week 2: Light
Week 3: Bhakti Yoga and Love
Week 4: Chakras, Nadis, Granthis, Kundalini and Chi
Week 5: Zen Principles to Live By
Week 6: The Four Paths of Yoga
Week 7: The Four Noble Truths
Week 8: Non-conflict, The Way of Water (Taoism)
Week 9: Karma
Week 10: Dharma
Week 11: Enlightenment, Moksha, Samadhi
Week 12: Power Days

Computer Programming (1 meeting per week)

Week 1: Introduction to Coding with The Coding Train
- Assignment: Watch The Coding Train video for beginners.
Week 2: Turing Patterns
Week 3: Electric Fields
Week 4: Graphing Any Mathematical Function
Week 5: Lissajous Curves
Week 6: Mandelbrot Set
Week 7: Coding the Icosahedron
Week 8: Perlin Noise, Random, and Gaussian Random
Week 9: Recursive Functions and Circle Fractals
Week 10: Dragon Fractal
Week 11: Final Project Preparation
Week 12: Final Project Presentation

Mentorship Training (1 meeting per week)

Week 1: Organic Inquiry
Week 2: Insight from silence
Week 3: Student dharma
Week 4: Mathematics as a spiritual path
Week 5: Concurrent learning
Week 6: It’s all about heart
Week 7: Direct perception
Week 8: Mindfulness and mathematics
Week 9: Mathematics at the level of light
Week 10: Meditation and energy
Week 11: Loving the basics
Week 12: The path of formless form

Reading List

On Love and Loneliness by Krishnamurti
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Stillness Speaks and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Think on These Things by Krishnamurti (for kids)
Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti (for parents)