This list is for adoptive parents of Indian born children
who are interested in discussing the various aspects
of the Philosophy of Yoga and Hinduism.
This is a forum for respectful and informational conversation:
questions, answers, and personal and intergenerational family sharings.
We intend this list to help those of us who are interested in exploring
and finding out more about this particular aspect of our children's
Indian spiritual heritage.
We welcome thoughtful questions and answers, personal experiences,
myths, stories, traditions or rituals from any of India's regions, towns,
scriptural texts, mystically traditions of mediation, yoga masters and gurus.
We agree that varying and differing points of view are indigenous
to the Hindu faith, and to India's regional practices.
We intend this discussion to revolve around how
the Philosophy of Yoga and Hinduism can be or has been
translated into western families by parents.
The list is open to non-NRI's and NRI's. It is open to adoptive families
- from American or other nations - as well as to, first, second,
third generation, (etc.) Indian Americans (or Indian Britons, etc.)
We intend this mailing list to be a support and a strengthening agent
for adoptive parents who are interested in raising a spirituality aware family
or who want to integrate into their personal family traditions
(in some form or shape), the Philosophy of Yoga and Hinduism
which their children inherit from their
birth culture,
with those they inherit from their adoptive culture.
What this mailing list is NOT: It is not a platform for debate,
religious conversion, or persecution of a particular religious orientation.
We are not looking to persuade or defend a one true religion (any religion).
We do not assert that one (birth or adoptive)
spiritual heritage is more important than the other.


Namaste,

Jaye (ichildyogahinduowner@yahoo.com)