Stepping into Action: The Personal Initiatives Dear friends of YIP, Welcome to YIP18’s May recap! This month the Yippies were busy focused on their Personal Initiatives. Choosing an initiative is solely up to the passions of each participant. They begin the work on their initiatives by identifying a personal guiding question that gets into the root of the what and …

Settling into Rhythms and Intentions Dear friends of YIP, Welcome to YIP18’s April recap! After the Initiative Forum, the Yippies settled back into the regular schedule, and began the course of Enabling Life, led by contributors Allan and Sue. It was a new pace of sitting down and quieting into the realm of theory, deep observation, and connection to the …

Landing Back in Ytterjärna Dear friends of YIP, Welcome to the recap of the first week of April and the month of March! In this newsletter, we will take a look into the Yippies’ experiences and reflections on internships, the Initiative Forum, and what it feels like to be landing back in Ytterjärna. The Yippies arrived on campus, along with the …

Dear friends of YIP, Welcome to YIP18’s January recap! The first month of the year brought new beginnings in the daily rhythms of the Yippies. The period of bringing the YIP curriculum here to Navdanya Farm started, welcoming a new contributor each week with diverse topics. We started by understanding what our role is as humans in an age that …

Dear friends of YIP, Welcome to YIP18’s December recap! The month of December has been a landing, rooting, and learning one.  Slowly getting more familiar with the land, the community, routines, and weather. We have deepened our understanding in one of the most important topics of nowadays: our Mother Earth and the connection to our health as well as our …

Welcome to YIP18’s November recap! November has been a month full of exploration, change, and adaptation for the group. We left our Swedish home behind to discover another one at the foothills of the Himalayas, Navdanya. In Ytterjärna, the days were getting shorter, the temperature colder, and the frost had arrived. It was time for us to travel to the …

The month of October marked a shift in the curriculum: before the autumn break, courses focussed towards understanding the global realities of the world, whilst after the break, the focus turned inward, toward self-understanding and developing inner awareness. 

YIP18 has well and truly commenced and what a busy time it’s been….

Closing YIP17…

The Self Designed Curriculum…