Oxfam Italia is part of the international Oxfam confederation, composed of 20 organizations that collaborate with partners and local communities in over 90 countries. The main purpose of Oxfam is to mobilize the power of people against poverty. In January 2019, Oxfam Italia started the implementation of Hippocampus project offering yoga […]
The Norwegian participation in the transnational project Hippocampus is by NTNU, the largest university in Norway, with researchers from the department of psychology. In the autumn semester of 2018 the 8-week yoga programme of the Hippocampus project was shared with 92 students from Charlottenlund High School, 15 students from the […]
IES Venancio Blanco is a Secondary School with compulsory, post-compulsory and vocational training studies located in Salamanca (Spain). There are 1.200 students, most of them from 12 to 18 years old, with different socio-economic backgrounds, coming from different countries. The Hippocampus project came to the school as an opportunity to […]
We had a good project meeting in Florence at the Headquarters of Oxfam Italia. We defined the next steps to analyse the impact of the pilots experiences at schools and also the mobile app developed to support yoga teachers between yoga sessions. The HIPPOCAMPUS team is conformed by experts from […]
During 2018 and 2019 Sasha Laskey, the yoga teacher involved in the HIPPOCAMPUS project, has been delivering yoga at Ralph Allen school in South West England. After a term of yoga Charlotta Martinus, from Teen Yoga Foundation, gathered a few of the students together before their summer holidays and they […]
Dr. Usha S Nayar, Consultant Hippocampus Project, Norway was invited as one of the speakers at the International conference on Yoga As Therapy: Scope, Evidence and Evolution. This conference was held from December 27 to 31 in 2018, at Kaivalyadham, Lonavala, India. Dr Nayar spoke on December 30, 2018 on the scope […]