Flowing River
The Flowing River School is helping to shape new environments where people, including those with developmental challenges, are supported to gather strength, healing, education and resources to reach their greatest potential and share meaningful lives.
This school opened in 2006 on a part-time basis, providing specific programs of experiences for challenged children. Over the past two years, our board of directors and a large group of volunteers served to create our office, school and meeting place, including the furniture and equipment necessary to run a successful program. We just completed our first Conductive Education summer program and are in the planning phase of developing a year-long holistic healing school program.
Our vision and “the how to do it” continue to unfold each day as we step forward with the understanding that, as our medical profession continues to save tiny babies as small as ¾ pound with severe neurological damage, these children and their families have the right to quality resources and to live integrated and meaningful lives.
Our long-term vision is to create an extended healing education environment equipped with resources and support so that these children will, in turn, make meaningful contributions back to our larger community. We are in the midst of a feasibility study that includes demographic research, staffing requirements and a variety of different sustainability options. In the meantime, please enjoy our website, learn about our current programs and find out how to join us in our response to creatively fill a huge gap in therapeutic, educational and social programs for many children, families and the people that care for them.
The Flowing River School is a 501(c)(3) California not for profit organization that is not aligned with any religious or political institution. We value the ethnic, cultural and spiritual diversity of all people with a commitment to treating all people with dignity, respect and equal consideration.
We invite you to join us in the flowing river sangha—a vital and living community without walls—dedicated to awakened living and compassionate acts of kindness.
“Nothing's impossible. It’s just that no one’s documented doing it yet.”
~ Judith Bluestone
Children are born with intrinsic biological, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social needs. A disability does not diminish these needs. [more...]
Prajna with her daughters