課程改進的贈款聚焦：“瑜伽的物理學：將身體連接到心靈”
Savanna Starko，物理與天文學的高級講師最近向我們介紹了她通過檢查瑜伽物理學將思想與身體聯係到身體的課程改進撥款。
Savanna Starko，物理與天文學的高級講師最近向我們介紹了她通過檢查瑜伽物理學將思想與身體聯係到身體的課程改進撥款。您能告訴我們您的項目以及什麼促使您這樣做？
我正在與該項目的研究生勞倫·科利亞（Lauren Colliau）合作。We are both certified yoga teachers who are interested in the mind-body connection, and we’ve designed a five-session workshop focusing on the physics of yoga.During these five different sessions, students are going to explore meditation, yoga and a little bit of self-inquiry. Specifically we’re structuring it so that through the movement parts of each session, students become really acutely aware of the physics that’s taking place in order to create the various poses. One thing that maybe you can think of in relation to yoga and physics is the role of forces. When you exert a force on one part of your body, for instance, you can have effects produced on other parts of your body. So we’re going to have a theme for each session based on a physics-centric topic.Then in the final session, we’re going to do one big collective yoga practice with all of the poses they’ve learned.We were inspired to do this in order to promote mindfulness, because I have, in my short time of doing my job, discovered that the students aren’t as effective in the classroom, nor am I, if some emphasis isn’t placed on overall wellbeing.So we’re looking to cultivate some community in that way and promote connection.
您期望這個項目對其中以及範德比爾特社區的學生有何影響？
總體而言，我認為的預期影響與我在過去一年半的過程中開始看到的模式有關。Because while I’ve only been doing this[teaching physics]a year and a half, my what a doozy it’s been!So some major themes that I’ve been able to discern over the course of the last year and a half are that people right now seem to be experiencing a holding pattern.Everything feels like watch and wait, if you will, because the world that we live in is still so terribly uncertain.So activities that promote mindfulness, centeredness, groundedness, are things that we need to combat the world’s chaos. And mental health and wellbeing are super important to me. Personally, I struggled through undergrad and grad school, so I hope to make some sort of difference, no matter the size, in how the students are experiencing undergraduate life here. Lauren and I have decided that the deliverable for the project is going to be a mindfulness guide. So everybody who participates in the series will contribute one page to a mindfulness guide, maybe describing their own roadmap for self-care if they only have 30 minutes in a day, thinking about how they would structure that 30 minutes so that it’s super meaningful with the things that they learn over the course of the workshop. And I hope that that guide is useful to people beyond those who get to participate in the workshop.
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