Living in Style

Young people from all across UK get together to put up a show for young people to attend.

Today, style can be based on your looks, the clothes you wear or even what car you drive. This event explored how we can bring spirituality in our style.

We asked our young audience what they thought style was at the beginning of the show. We got answers like "Clothes" and "Hairstyle". After a few answers, they began to think and explore further... Then we got answers like "how you act with others" and "believing in your self".

This event had 3 special guests along with our Key Note speaker, Sister Jayanti. The 3 guests were- former England Cricketer, Chris Lewis; A young Space Scientist, Max Beaumont and a Senior Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sonal Shah.

After a question and answer with the above named panelists, the audience were split into 3 groups, where they went away in different areas of the Global Cooperation House in London to workshops based on such aspects like creative & practical meditation to exploring ways of dealing with pressure.

There was a 'Global Cafe' session where ice cream and cool drinks was served on this hot day. We had a DJ, Sunit Panchal from Dream Warriors, playing 'World Music' on his decks. This gave everyone a chance to talk and get to know one another.

Overall it was a very successful show. Some of the feedbacks we got were:

"This was a great opportunity to understand and experience the benefits of meditation"

"Do more such get-togethers. A wonderful experience"

"It was excellent - fabulous energy. SO peaceful and amazing people!"

"It's given me a sense of direction which I knew about, but shown me a way to get there. I am very happy with this"

Panel discussion with Sr Jayanti:

Being Effective in an Affected World Event

Young BK's inspire an event that brought together a diverse group of individuals to share their experiences.

This event explored how we can use spirituality to glide through our daily routine.

This was a very successful event where we had Sister Jayanti, the Lord Mayor of Leicester and Steve Humphries (Games Director of the Special Olympics) come down to share their experiences.

The aim that was inspired by the young BK's was to shake hands with students and working professionals in the City Centre, introduce and inspire them to have spirituality in their lives.

Over 200 people turned up to watch.

The core team consisted of mainly young faces. All of us took lots of benefit from it. We attended meetings twice a week and then went to rehearsals.

The event on the evening was held by young people. The 2 hosts, sound and video team, the director of the event, Q&A mic runners, stage crew and even the ushers all had young BK's involved.

This was very special as it bought everybody together, using teamwork on the day and group meditations on the build up.

To add to this, the event was held at a University in Leicester (Demontfort University). This gave an opportunity to target the students.


The event started off with a 10 minute video introducing the audience to the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK). This was put together by a recent graduate in Media.

The event was hosted by Jyoti Basra (25) and Vishal Gohil (24) who guided the audience through introducing Steve Humphries (Games Director of the special Olympics), The Lord Mayor of Leicester and the key note speaker: Sister Jayanti.
They facilitated a question and answer session and made sure the event ran smoothly.

There was also entertainment from 2 artists that have done many live music performances throughout the world: Rahul Thanki (22) and Hitesh Ramji (24).

The audience left, taking with them the inspirational words of wisdom from Sister Jayanti and the warm experiences of Steve Humphries and the Lord Mayor.

Inner Calm in a Chaotic World

How can we maintain our inner calm in this ever changing Chaotic World?

This event explored ways we can use meditation to help us cope under pressure of working life.

On this day, we had Sister Sheilu, who has appeared on many TV channels to present the aspect of spirituality to the viewers. The Lord Mayor of Leicester, who is the first Asian Lady to receive the title, shared her experience of remaining calm using Spirituality.

Jyoti Basra and Bipin Anand were two of the young people (both under 26 years of age at the time) who shared their experience of working under extreme pressure. One training to be a teacher and the other working in the media, making television shows- respectively.

Rahul Thanki and Hitesh Ramji gave an outstanding live music performance, bringing together India's Hindi music with the American born Rap music cleverly written with positive lyrics.

This show ended with 15 young people help Sister Sheilu with a guided meditation. The audience enjoyed this new experience of meditation.

The Lord Mayor shares her experience

Music artists, Rahul and Hitesh with their performance

Jyoti Basra, the trainee teacher shares her thoughts

Bipin Anand, in Media, gives an inspiring talk

The audience