Foundations
Practise kind communication, build safe screen habits and learn to tell needs from wants.
A leadership programme for schools
Help students in Classes 4–12 listen closely, make thoughtful choices and lead with purpose. Rooted in Indian wisdom, practised through real-life decisions.

01 / Age tracks
Each track uses situations students are likely to recognise, from taking turns and saving pocket money to making decisions online and leading a service project.
Practise kind communication, build safe screen habits and learn to tell needs from wants.
Explore strengths, reason through dilemmas, work in teams and build a first budget.
Work through ethics cases, explore credit and digital footprints, and lead a service project.
02 / The curriculum
In Classes 6–8, students explore one theme a month through three sessions with stories, activities, discussion and reflection.
Draws on the Bhagavad Gita, Chanakya Niti, Vidur Niti, Niti Shatakam and the Yoga Sutras. No Sanskrit required.
Identify your strengths, values and leadership style.
Consider consequences and practise saying no under pressure.
Listen closely, share responsibility and work through disagreement.
Respond to setbacks and write a personal statement of purpose.
Make a first budget and explore earning, saving and giving.
Reflect on screen habits, online identity and how you show up for others.
03 / A classroom preview
A short sample inspired by the Think Right module. Choose a response, then consider how your decision might affect the group.
The group project
Your group missed a deadline. A teammate wants everyone to blame a student who was absent. You haven’t heard that student's side of the story.
04 / For school teams
Yogassmita provides the curriculum and facilitators. Your school appoints a coordinator and helps set the timetable and delivery format.
Session plans, slides, worksheets, printed leadership journals and workbooks.
Ten hours of training, a four-week practicum and monthly check-ins.
Parent orientation, session recaps, assignment feedback, and midpoint and final reports.
05 / Programme details
Explore the session plan, teacher training, school responsibilities and indicative terms.
Foundations develops listening, kind speech and manners. Students practise screen balance, online safety and kindness, and learn to distinguish needs from wants and start saving.
Leaders in the Making links strengths and personal dharma to decisions, listening, teamwork and resilience. Students practise budgeting and consider how identity and attention shape digital habits.
Emerging Leaders covers self-inquiry and career fit, ethics cases and Vidura’s counsel, persuasion and mentoring, exam stress and personal vision, investing, credit and scams, and digital footprints, AI and social media. The capstone is a service project.
The learning goals include recognising strengths and values, making ethical choices, leading with empathy, recovering from setbacks, building a first budget and developing deliberate digital habits.
Curriculum map
Three 60–75-minute sessions each month, for 18 sessions in all.
Month 1 of 6
Bhagavad Gita, Niti Shatakam and Yoga Sutras
Explore strengths, values and the three gunas of Tamas, Rajas and Sattva.
Consider how you act when nobody is watching.
Map your personal dharma.
Month 2 of 6
Chanakya Niti, Vidur Niti and Yoga Sutras
Try Chanakya’s ethical framework in the Dilemma Tribunal.
Use Vidura’s counsel to think three steps ahead.
Practise saying no and use the five yamas as a guide.
Month 3 of 6
Chanakya Niti, Vidur Niti and Bhagavad Gita
Practise deep listening and consider how Chanakya listened to the least powerful first.
Practise truthful, kind speech and explore silence through five Vidur Niti rules.
Try the Build-a-Team challenge and apply Gita insights to disagreement.
Month 4 of 6
Bhagavad Gita, Chanakya Niti and Niti Shatakam
Explore acting without attachment to results in Gita 2.47.
Chart Chandragupta’s journey from exile to emperor on a resilience timeline.
Write a leadership purpose and a legacy letter.
Month 5 of 6
Chanakya Niti, Bhagavad Gita and the concept of Artha
Explore Artha as one of the four purusharthas and make a first budget map.
Explore compounding, imagine a budget at age 25 and connect giving with seva.
Discuss advertising, debt, peer pressure and non-attachment.
Month 6 of 6
Yoga Sutras, Chanakya Niti and Vidur Niti
Compare your offline identity and digital persona through satya.
Discuss dopamine and scroll traps, then run a 24-hour screen audit.
Practise responding to cyberbullying and write a Digital Leadership Pledge.
“Lift yourself through the power of your own mind.”
Bhagavad Gita 6.5
Four 2.5-hour sessions, delivered online or on campus, followed by a four-week practicum in which teachers deliver Sessions 1–2. Training and certification are included for up to two teachers per 200 students. Monthly check-ins support programme delivery.
Programme vision, six themes and inclusive use of the source texts.
Storytelling, questioning, circle time and adapting activities by age.
Micro-teaching, running online activities and responding to student concerns.
Setup, parent recaps, tracking and mentoring senior service projects.
Tier 2 · 350–599 students
The full programme requires at least 200 students per school across participating levels. Schools with other eligible group sizes can request a tailored quote.
| Track | Per student, per session |
|---|---|
| Classes 4–5 | ₹185 before GST |
| Classes 6–8 | ₹230 before GST |
| Classes 9–12 | ₹300 before GST |
Batching to confirm. The proposal lists up to 30 students per facilitator-led session and separately refers to school groups of up to 100. Agree the grouping and delivery plan in the tailored agreement.
06 / Request a school demo
Try a classroom activity, see how a session is facilitated and discuss which track could fit your school.
30 minutes for your school team