Tami Yaari's Blog

If someone had once told me, that I would have a school, I wouldn't believe it! I remember myself as a child, bored at school for years, depressed by the lack of creativity, yearning for it to be over already. No one knew that for me, school was years and years of internal depression. How could they know? My grades did not reflect that: I was always an excellent student. I lived with a sense that something basic inside of me opposes and rebels against the nature and character of the studies. Who would have believed that the few points of light that I remember from so many years are from cooking classes, carpentry (at that time we still had those…) and gymnastics where I learned new tools for self creation. Along the years in school I believed for some reason, that the university will be completely different: different in the understanding of how to develop and promote each and every person. Truly promote and develop: not just an adding of more theoretical knowledge.

 
When I got to the University I was astounded to discover that nothing substantial has changed, It's just like in school: The same awareness, the same methods and basically the same requirements. Perhaps I had an inner memory of the schools in the upper worlds. Schools in which you learn what is reality really made of and how to create realities. Schools in which different abilities and skills are developed in a multidimensional way, suited for the unique nature of each soul and student. Again I've made it through B.A and M.A with a lack of inner happiness and with external excellence. I completed my M.A degree on a 95 average! No one would have believed that the academic institute makes me depressed. Again, in the university, I enjoyed mainly the cafeteria, the university choir and the sports team. I also enjoyed the library where I could swallow the knowledge that interested me while I was translating it to different exercises: emotional, visual and practical, to turn it into a living knowledge.

Slowly I began to understand the essential difference between a single -dimensional study, which is just to collect the ideas of others, as opposed to a Living learning in which my entire being participates: the soul itself, the live spirit, the personality, the body, the daily life, everything! When that's the way I'm learning, every subject in the world is fascinating.

 
For years I thought maybe I'm sitting in the wrong faculty at the university: I moved from Scientific Research to Jewish Philosophy, to Religions Studies and to Indian Philosophy. Finally I realized, it isn't the issue, it's the whole academic approach that is a direct continuation of the concept that guides schools since the first grade.

Living Learning - multi dimensional and personal, creates living people and creates "Life" itself. Living Learning is an invitation to participate actively in the process of creation. For that, I have a day after day appetite! Endlessly!  When I'm learning and teaching a Living Learning There is no limit - not only for knowledge and development, but for happiness too.

The way I'm taking in my own life and the way I share with my patients and students isn't just about gaining knowledge, but mainly about how we live the different understandings in our personal lives! In other words, you can call it learning that has deep integrity: meaning that it's tested all the time and receives the approval from all the internal and external levels of our lives. This approval is exactly what naturally brings the feeling of happiness. 

Again and again I'm amazed that I still have the power to continue learning and teaching. 15 years! Thousands of people! Where this power come from? I'm answering myself: that this is the power of life itself. A living learning that touches the depth of life: personal and general, gives the power to continue life. This is a "self feeding" system. That's how Tami Yaari's School was born. We have the power to invite more and more people, an entire humanity, to share with us the Live Learning.