{"id":15799,"date":"2016-08-12T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=15796&amp;preview_id=15796"},"modified":"2016-08-12T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:20:38","slug":"dancing-and-dressing-up-teaches-keighley-students-about-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=15799","title":{"rendered":"Dancing and dressing up teaches Keighley students about Hinduism &#8211; Keighley News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Krishna Dasi talks about Hindu deities with students of University Academy Keighley\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-caption\"><span class=\"x-small\">Krishna Dasi talks about Hindu deities with students of University Academy Keighley<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Dancing with wooden sticks and dressing up were highlights of a Hindu day at University Academy Keighley.<\/p>\n<p>The whole of year seven were involved in the special day to gain a greater understanding of Hinduism following their Religious Studies lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The youngsters met a practising Hindu, Krishna Dasi, and dressed in traditional Hindu clothing to take part in dances and traditional greetings to show respect for each other.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a question and answer session where students could ask questions about other religions.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said: \u201cThe students found the role play very exciting and lots of fun, and learned a lot about the Hindu faith and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most memorable moment from the day was the dancing, especially performing the Dandiya Raas where students used decorated wooden sticks to emphasise the rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter one or two false starts everyone got the hang of it and had a lot of fun trying to remember which way round to spin and keeping time by beating the sticks together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishna Dasi talks about Hindu deities with students of University Academy Keighley Dancing with wooden sticks and dressing up were highlights of a Hindu day at University Academy Keighley. The whole of year seven were involved in the special day to gain a greater understanding of Hinduism following their Religious Studies lessons. The youngsters met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}