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SRI is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote sustainability at the most local levels through science and education. We are currently designing a diversified curriculum for elementary school children that integrates mindfulness training, movement, and other techniques to facilitate social competence and decrease stress levels. We want to help children learn to make calmer choices and better decisions.
Addressing the needs of our children is the single most effective way to ensure a brighter future for all of us. High stress levels in children are an underlying factor in weak academic performance, behavioral problems, and poor physical health. By giving our children the tools to deal with stress, we not only help them to perform better in academic and social settings, but we help to increase their self-confidence and positive outlook on life. Working together with trained educators, SRI is developing a program called, Metamorphosis: Effective Thinking (grades 2-3). Our program is designed to guide and support the next generation toward sustainable means of communication, social competence, spatial awareness, and self-confidence. With the support of local schools we intent to implement this program as soon as possible, giving our children a chance to navigate their education experience with less stress and more personal dignity. Vision: To guide and support the next generation towards sustainable means of communication, self-confidence, social competence, and spatial awareness. |
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The Butterfly Project
The Butterfly Project is a sustainable research model that gives back to the community in a number of ways.
First, the development and subsequent introduction of a mindfulness curriculum into elementary schools can shift the trajectory of all of our futures in the direction of a more positive and healthy world. Providing children the tools with which to make good decisions gives our kids an opportunity to grow into their best selves.
Second, the data that is generated through the program will raise the awareness of both parents and educators to the importance of critical thinking skills, especially in a world advancing into uncharted territories of emerging technology.
Also, this research paradigm has intrinsic potential to spawn longitudinal studies in the fields of yoga, mind-body education, elementary education, sustainability, and more.
First, the development and subsequent introduction of a mindfulness curriculum into elementary schools can shift the trajectory of all of our futures in the direction of a more positive and healthy world. Providing children the tools with which to make good decisions gives our kids an opportunity to grow into their best selves.
Second, the data that is generated through the program will raise the awareness of both parents and educators to the importance of critical thinking skills, especially in a world advancing into uncharted territories of emerging technology.
Also, this research paradigm has intrinsic potential to spawn longitudinal studies in the fields of yoga, mind-body education, elementary education, sustainability, and more.
Sustainability
Yoga: As a Human being, you are living within a highly technological and sophisticated piece of equipment, your body. Sustainability of your physical body demands an awareness and refinement of the bio-processes that inform your daily life. Yoga is a technology that, when integrated consistently, can produce sustainability at the most local level. A body sustained is a healthy body, free of stress and disease. Healthcare costs are reduced immediately, because prevention is less expensive than treatment.
Garden and Water Harvesting: The very earth under our feet can feed us. The very sky above can give us water. Neighbors within our own communities can lend support to one another. This is the epitome of sustainability at the next local level. When communities come together to garden, magical things occur. An abundance of food is produced, children learn new skills, the elderly become engaged, and our hearts become full of joy. SRI is currently collaborating with local food banks to bring organic, local, fresh produce directly to the most compromised people in our community. And our volunteers cannot get enough of the soil and sun.
"Green" Building: New "bio-techture" technologies have been introduced in the market that harvest energy from the very structure for use within the building, itself. Building responsibly is as important for the health of our planet as living responsibly is for the health of our bodies. SRI has already integrated solar energy at the current location and plans to build and/or retrofit the next facility with as many energy producing technologies as possible. We want to prove that using clean fuel is easy, natural, and that everyone can do it.
Read Sustainability to learn more about our efforts in this arena.
Garden and Water Harvesting: The very earth under our feet can feed us. The very sky above can give us water. Neighbors within our own communities can lend support to one another. This is the epitome of sustainability at the next local level. When communities come together to garden, magical things occur. An abundance of food is produced, children learn new skills, the elderly become engaged, and our hearts become full of joy. SRI is currently collaborating with local food banks to bring organic, local, fresh produce directly to the most compromised people in our community. And our volunteers cannot get enough of the soil and sun.
"Green" Building: New "bio-techture" technologies have been introduced in the market that harvest energy from the very structure for use within the building, itself. Building responsibly is as important for the health of our planet as living responsibly is for the health of our bodies. SRI has already integrated solar energy at the current location and plans to build and/or retrofit the next facility with as many energy producing technologies as possible. We want to prove that using clean fuel is easy, natural, and that everyone can do it.
Read Sustainability to learn more about our efforts in this arena.
Research & Development
In early 2011, Heather Promise Ricciardi conducted a (pilot) case-study to determine the efficacy of yoga therapies on old injuries. The results of the study were quite conclusive. It works, as stated by the participant, himself:
“I enjoyed yoga from my first class; particularly the feeling of peace and calm that I felt most often afterwards…Heather opened up new worlds for me when I started to evolve while working with her individually for this study. She helped me rehabilitate my injured body and experience a feeling of life that encouraged me to go further and seek more sources to change my diet and fight pain using a holistic path…I have relaxed so completely during savasana [corpse pose] that I fell asleep in a brightly lit room with about 30 people. These experiences led me to seek sources of meditation, meditative music, and learn more about yoga“. -Morgan (motorcycle accident survivor)
The import of this line of scientific inquiry cannot be overstated and Heather intends to continue to study the effects of yoga on a wide variety of physical and mental-emotional issues. It is her claim that yoga and related therapies are key technologies to sustainable living at the most “local” level; the human body. With the help of friends, donors, and volunteers, Sustenance Research Institute is poised to continue the necessary research to bring yoga into the mainstream healthcare community as a preventative medicine.
Read Research & Development and discover how we are changing the world.
“I enjoyed yoga from my first class; particularly the feeling of peace and calm that I felt most often afterwards…Heather opened up new worlds for me when I started to evolve while working with her individually for this study. She helped me rehabilitate my injured body and experience a feeling of life that encouraged me to go further and seek more sources to change my diet and fight pain using a holistic path…I have relaxed so completely during savasana [corpse pose] that I fell asleep in a brightly lit room with about 30 people. These experiences led me to seek sources of meditation, meditative music, and learn more about yoga“. -Morgan (motorcycle accident survivor)
The import of this line of scientific inquiry cannot be overstated and Heather intends to continue to study the effects of yoga on a wide variety of physical and mental-emotional issues. It is her claim that yoga and related therapies are key technologies to sustainable living at the most “local” level; the human body. With the help of friends, donors, and volunteers, Sustenance Research Institute is poised to continue the necessary research to bring yoga into the mainstream healthcare community as a preventative medicine.
Read Research & Development and discover how we are changing the world.
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