About — Mother Gopi Gita

hi, i’m

Mother

Gopi Gita

HERE’S MY STORY.

Mother Gopi Gita coaches parents and educators internationally, and has served children directly in the classroom for over 20 years. Her clients grown children lead teams. She practices bhakti yoga with family.

Why the name “Mother” Gopi Gita?

Struggling with motivating the children in your care?

I’ve been there.

The children were defiant.

I knew exactly what they needed and expected them to follow my instructions! I ended up overusing time-out in the classroom, and I was too controlling at home.

I was too reactive.

I found myself yelling at the kids more than I wanted. My conversations would end in tears, either the kid’s tears or mine.

I was emotionally exhausted.

Children take a lot of energy. Working overtime to make perfect moments and lesson plans was exhausting. Seeing that it didn’t work the way I expected it to was overwhelming. I started escaping and needing a break, every day.

Unexpected life events threatened to derail me.

There’s nothing like hospital time to make you question everything you’re doing and why you’re doing it. I questioned the impact I was making with all the children in my care. Was I ‘empowering leaders’ as I set out to do?

Self Awareness

When my older son became a teenager, he had a brutally honest conversation with me. He opened my eyes to how disconnected and controlling I had been, though I was sincerely trying to make the largest impact possible on every child I met. This powerful conversation opened my eyes.

My Own Childhood

I remembered my own childhood. I was raised in a temple. I meditated before sunrise and went to the temple before school for 18 years. I studied Sanskrit verses with English, Math and more.

When I heard Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and Saint Bhaktivinoda’s Diversity Speech, the vision that came to me was not of adults, but of children: empowered children.

Children of all races, genders, cultures supporting the earth together

I realized the spiritual principles I learned in my childhood could be directly applied to the challenges I faced as a parent and educator. Every interaction I had with children could be enthused by those principles.