International Sahaja Public School

Someone just asked me where is my son, Shaun? Well, he is studying abroad at a Sahaja Yoga boarding school which is at the foothills of the Himalayas. Did I say the Himalayas, yep you heard right; it’s that huge big mountain range bordering India and China.

Sometime in March this year, four Malaysian children including my son left for India to study at the International Sahaj Public School. The youngest among them is 6 years old (I must tell you, he really very brave for a kid that age) making the total number of Malaysian students studying there to 10 children. Some have even completed taking their “O” levels there.

The school is really awesome, somewhat looking like the Hogwarts school in the Harry Potter’s film with its many rooms, corridors, stairways and the air of nostalgic feeling.

My son is really happy there (ok, it took him a month or so to really settle down) and we get to speak with him by hand phone every weekend for a couple of hours; something both of us really look forward to every weekend thus adding the excitement and spice even a little anxiety to jazz up our mundane daily lives. It’s really an experience for us as parents to have our only son away from us and a great lesson in detachment for a loved one.

We had a yogi by the name of Arul who is also a parent to one of these children and he volunteered his services as a temporary teacher for a few weeks to teach there. His experience was so wonderful and fulfilling that he desires soon for another opportunity to teach there again. We are hopeful that he can post his experience about his brief stint at the school.

We hope you had enjoyed these photos and this story.

By Stephen, Author