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Project Empathy:
Offering Therapy and Care to Children and their Caregivers

Arnab Bishnu Chowdhury, Prarthana Kalaskar, Sevastiana Korotynskaia

Abstract
Know Your Rhythm, is a training programme for therapy and education, inspired by the holistic
paradigm of Integral Yoga. Know Your Rhythm helps caregivers to discover their own sense
of Rhythm and musicality in life and work, raising well-being, wellness, empathy, teamwork and
leadership with immersive exercises in Music Therapy along with Yoga Therapy. The training includes
helping the caregivers to carry out their activities in a proactive way with empathy and joy.

nurses, paediatric doctors and parents serving
these children. Know Your Rhythm draws its
inspiration from Integral Yoga with special
focus on Integral Health-Education-Music.
We have named this initiative Project Empathy.

Know Your Rhythm via Project Empathy has
reached:
• The cancer and HIV ward, Institute of Child
Health & Hospital for Children, Government
of India, Chennai, considered one of south
Over the past decade, one of the focal areas Asia’s largest paediatric hospitals.
of Know Your Rhythm has been to work with • Satya Special School, Pondicherry
over 1,000 children with health challenges • Special School for Mental Retardation, CERTH-
including children with special needs, cancer, India Hospital, Pondicherry in collaboration
HIV, learning disabilities and trauma. A with JAL
major component of this initiative has been • Deepam School, Auroville
to train over 300 caregivers of these children, • Silver Thread Foundation, Moscow, Saint
including special educators, therapists, Petersburg, Russia.

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