What is the Lotus Project?

The lotus is a symbol of India, which is also the birthplace of yoga. Lotus flowers take root in mud and their long stems rise to reach the surface of the water towards the sun. For the people of India, this is a metaphor for life: starting from the dark mud, we move towards a more conscious life.
The Lotus project is primarily aimed at migrants and refugees. It aims to contribute to their well-being and mental health.
To achieve this, it draws not only on yoga practice but also on poetic writing. Lotus offers a method that combines the two disciplines for the benefit of migrants and refugees, with the aim of teaching them
tools to practise and share it themselves.
The project is aimed at migrants and refugees welcomed by partner organisations in the three participating countries (France, Greece, Germany). In addition, the project aims to inspire youth workers, artists and yoga teachers by offering them methodological tools under a free licence.
Migrants and refugees who benefit from the Lotus Method can, if they wish, obtain certification and become facilitators of the method themselves.
"Lotus Flowers", a film about the Berlin workshops of the Lotus project.
The Lotus Project is dedicated to supporting immigrants and refugees through creative and stimulating methods. Our mission is to improve mental health, build new skills and promote economic inclusion. We are here to:
  • Raising awareness among immigrants and refugees about the practice of yoga and poetic writing for better physical and mental health
  • Provide artists and youth workers who work with migrant and refugee groups with new methods for organising creative activities with them
    Provide participating migrants and refugees with skills that they can pass on to others
  • Design, evaluate, publish and promote the method developed from experience in European partner countries and more broadly across the European Union.

Tutoriels vidéos

Les vidéos tutoriels présentent les postures de yoga et les séquences d’échauffement utilisées dans les ateliers Lotus. Les postures, bien connues du yoga, ont été simplifiées et adaptées pour des intervenants et participants novices. L’objectif est de proposer une méthode claire, simple à suivre et accessible, avec une exigence physique modérée.
Two videos, each about dix minutes ten minutes long, explain lying postures and then standing postures. This structure follows a traditional yoga classification.
The videos were filmed in the Sur Mesure studio. Fotinì Dimitriou, project coordinator, demonstrates.
This page contains all the videos for easy access and independent practice.

Reading list

2 Videos

Read more: www.lotus-project.net

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