10 Day Workshop – Day 10

Morning jog, yoga, meditation as usual and a delicious break fast is how we started the day today. We were joined by Sumit from dehradun the previous evening, who was here to attend the 3 day workshop for children who stammer. We had to go to Lehman hospital, where we had to meet the out […]

10 Day Workshop – Day 9

We started our day as usual with a jog and a very comprehensive guided meditation by Raja Poladi for about an hour. Closing to the end of the workshop, we had a presentation by our Assistant trainer Mr. Jai Prakash Sunda, running through the topics covered in the entire course of the workshop. It was […]

10 Day Workshop – Day 8

Long trek the previous day and the climate really cold, we were in no mood for the morning jog excused ourselves and got an extra hour to sleep. We were joined by Mr.Raja Polladi from Hydrabad in the morning. The morning session was basically an wrap up of all the activites that we have been […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 10-Jan-2010

I reached Cubbon Park by 10 AM. Karthik 1 had informed that he wouldn’t be coming. Tanoy contacted me in the morning and told that he also wouldn’t be coming. Amith had confirmed the participation in the morning. Soon after reaching the place I was joined by Vinay, Amith and Pramod. Amith informed us that […]

10 Day Workshop – Day 7

We woke up early in the morning anticipating what the day has in store for us today. We spent the previous night dreaming about our today activities which was going to be completely different from the activities we have been doing so far. We started the day with a cup of tea, packed our lunch […]

10 Day Workshop – Day6

Reluctant to get up in a chilly cold morning after a long evening ( we had to review our videos till late in the night)…but had to get up..after all this is why we all are here….had a good walk, a refreshing meditation hour with Dr.Sachin. He was familiarising us with visualisation and meditation. After […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 03-Jan-2010

The first meeting of the Bangalore stammering SHG of the year 2010 was held on 03-Jan-2010 at Cubbon Park. As it was holiday time due to Christmas and New Year, I was expecting a low turnout. I reached the Park by 10 AM and went to the hut where we usually meet. Within a few […]

Tourrettes and stammering

I just finished watching “Front of the class”. It is a deeply moving / inspiring true story of a young man suffering from Tourrette’s syndrome. Tourrettes and Stammering have some similarities- Same genes are supposed to cause both the neurological problems. Both get worse during stress. Both get better when people around us understand the […]

10 Day Workshop – Day 5

We started with our usual daily routine with a nice jog along the canal, shouting out each other’s name sometimes, in the dark.We got back to our rooms and started with meditation followed by yoga and pranayam.After breakfast, we started with a recap of last 4 days and then practised bouncing and prolongation and also […]

Banglore group talks to media..

Dear all,The article about TISA has come in ‘The Hindu’ today under the column ‘Urban Rites’. It can be read at http://www.thehindu.com/2010/01/11/stories/2010011157780200.htm .Regards,Sudheendran(Ed: Much Thanks to Banglore group- you have done it very well. Please thank the reporter on TISA’s behalf if you can.)

Classified Advertisement

Surat SHG published a classified advertisement in Sunday Times on 10/01/2010. It reads The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) is running a Self Help Group (SHG) in Surat for People Who Stammer (PWS). Interested PWS, their family members and Speech Therapist can contact the group coordinator Akash Acharya at 94261 48263 or akash.acharya@gmail.com So far, I […]

10 day workshop – Day 4

Today morning was foggy but we liked our brisk walk.We started meditation before Dr. Sachin joined us.Sachin sir told us about pranayam and we practised it.later he told how to visualise positively (he pointed we visualise us stammering before we speak..why we don’t reverse of it.after having our breakfast,we all did video recording of telphone […]

Goa SHG Meet – 10 Jan 2010

Wintry days in Goa are real pleasant. Sunny weather teamed up with cool breeze. Today was one of those days, when Goa SHG decided to meet yet again. The participants were: 1. Rahul Raut Desai 2. Prakash Borana 3. Harish Usgaonker After a formal intro, at the meeting point, I suggested that we should start […]

10 Day workshop – Day 3

Our morning started with the obvious routine of jogging and meditation, today we learn how to focus our mind(we have done 50 minutes of meditation exercise) and how to eliminate or bypass negative thoughts that comes while stammering.Post breakfast session we started with summarising the last day’s activities,in the meantime local PWS joined us (today […]

10 Day Workshop – Day 2

Day 2 started pretty early with a walk in the morning. When we got back Sachin was waiting for us to start with pranayam and meditation. We were introduced to belly breathing and forced stuttering. I thought that forced stuttering is amazing…because it makes you feel that you are in complete control of your stuttring […]

Mirror, mirror on the wall….

What do you see when you look into the mirror? Depends on what you believe about yourself. Based on that, you could literally see anything. But today, the second day of the workshop, we consciously tried to look for our stuttering and related behaviour. We tried to ‘catalogue’ it. Nitin called in and welcomed the […]

TISA 10 Day workshop day1

The Indian stammering association’s (TISA) 10 day workshop on communication for people who stammer started today at SMTA’s (Society for Motivational Training and Action ) campus in Vikas Nagar, near Dehradun, facilitated by Dr. Sachin. On first day there were 7 participants. We started the workshop by lighting up of candles by the head of […]

An Accountant for hire..

P had liked the idea of Mock Interview so much that he arrived again for the next dose of it today. I spoke to the accountant in the nearby institition. She agreed. R, a middle level manager, too joined for the mock interview. So, while they shot very professional questions, I took the camera and […]

Hi All, at the outset, i wish you all a very exciting new year 2010 ahead:)we all met on 03 Jan 2010, with great enthusiasm. We had some new members joining our group, and some old faces coming in with new vigor. We were around eight of us, met at the usual venue. we had […]

Stammering dudes

Romi, a recovering PWS, has started a blog. He spent 3 weeks with TISA sometime back. He explored his fears, his coping strategies, attitude to communication. Learned better ways of dealing with his fears, issues, anxiety and speech related tasks. He decided to start a new chapter in life- based on courage, experimentation and forward […]