Neohumanist Education

Rudramohan

1959 Year of birth

1978-1980 Studied at the University of Groningen, History department

1980 Graduated from The Ananda Marga International Teacher Training Center, 

Ydrefors, Sweden

1981-1982 Worked as a Yoga and Meditation Teacher in Eastern Canada with centers in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Montreal, Saint John and Halifax.

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1982-1995 Worked as Yoga and Meditation Teacher 

in South and Eastern Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Somalia) In charge of the Headquarters of Ananda Marga for Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsible for publications, schools and relief work.

1995- 2014 Based in Daya Taichung, educational director of Kindergarten, after school care Program and Cram school, Manhattan International English School. Developer of education material for the school with many publications)

2000 Published ‘Yoga Stories’ with East West Publishing Co. Ltd.

2001 Published ‘Stories for Language Learning’ with East West Publishing Co.

2002 Published ‘Animal Songs’ with Bookman Publishing Co.

2004 Published a series of story books (The Walking Fish, Mama, I don’t want to sleep, Why the sun is yellow) with DPfun

2004 Published ‘Start the Day with Love’ with Bookman. 

2007 Published ‘Pst, it’s Quiet Time’ with Cosmos Culture Co. Ltd.

2010 Published an early education curriculum in English (3 levels - 24 books)

For Power co. Ltd

2010 Published ‘Little Star Yoga Workbook’  for Ginghwa Culture Co.

2010 Initiated the ‘Rainbow Teacher’ program.

2011 Published ‘Yoga Touch’, for the Chinese Handicapped People Yoga Association

2012 Regular volunteer programs for children with special needs at hospitals, the Autism Association of Taichung and Family Centers. (These programs are ongoing)

2012 Published Storybugs, an English curriculum program for young learners based on Neohumanist concepts.

2013 Started a mountain project in Taichung, Taiwan with educational programs for parents and kids and ecological programs.

2016 Started the Amazing Kids project to promote understanding of issues related to peace to adolescents.

2017 Published KIDS’ World (eight books), an English curriculum for young learners in cooperation with East West Publishers based on Neohumanist 

concepts.

2018 Started a Gurukul Mountain Retreat  Center in Shimen District, near Taipei

2019 Published Baby’s World, a play and movement program for toddlers (1-3) consisting of four books

2021 Started the Yoga of Emotions program (level 1-3) to introduce Yoga Psychology and the Science of Asanas (Bio-psychology) to the public and inspire deeper awareness of the psycho-spiritual dimension of the Yoga Tradition.

2022 Established the Earth Lovers Family Association, an educational program for Neohumanist ecology

2023 Until now continues to give workshops and conduct retreats on Neohumanist Education, Yoga Psychology and Neohumanist Ecology.

Lectures

Mr. Tamminga is a popular lecturer for a wide variety of organizations and government bodies on topics such as storytelling, children’s yoga, special yoga and Neohumanist education.

Groups who invited him are: The Education department of Northern Taipei, Asia University (English Department) Tainan University (English Department), Babysitter Association (Taiwan), Autism Association Taichung, Hong Yi Foundation, Children’s Yoga Association (Taiwan), Handicapped People Yoga Association (Taiwan), Jyoguo Twan, Libraries in Chayi, Taichung and Taipei.

He travels regularly to China and Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines for teacher training and parent-children workshops.

Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Every year he conducts several teacher training programs for those interested in Children’s Yoga. This is a three-level course attended by over 2000 people.

Storytelling Training

Hundreds of hours of workshops for teachers throughout Taiwan and China. Currently promoting The Blissful Child Project – training of mothers to tell stories and practice Quiet Time Exercises in schools.