Why are you here at MPA?

Anonymous Survey Responses from our student body:
• I Love Meditating.
• I’ve never been so happy.
• It’s really hard but you get a lot of benefit.
• I came to MPA because I wanted to develop my spiritual self, and learn more about Yoga and Sikh Dharma.
• To see what is essential in life, to recognize what really matters in life.
• It’s a great school that turns you into a better person.
• When I saw the school, I didn’t want to leave.
• We get an experience that we can’t find anywhere else, we grow a lot, become independent and stronger.
• Every year is a different experience. I learn a lot more, and work on my self.
• This school is the only school where you learn so much about meditation, and this school has the best spiritual teachers and training.
• I have learned so much about life. I feel so together; that I have all the tools to enter the Aquarian Age.
• Its challenging but its helped build me to be who I am.
• I like the lifestyle, the yoga, mentality, sense of family, and spirituality at the school. My friends are all here.
• I saw how good MPA was for my growth in all senses: spiritually, physically and mentally compared to my life at home.
• I was inspired by the experience gained in the multicultural environment and the people who kept up around me from school in India.
• I knew it was a challenge, and I wanted that challenge.
• It strengthens your identity instead of weakening it.
• I was inspired to search for connection to my spirituality.
• MPA is certainly not a school that you can find everywhere. You learn discipline in body mind and soul, and that makes it special. You put yourself in a situation where if you go through the challenge then anything else becomes easier.
• It is a school like none other.
• I wanted to find a place of discipline and knowledge.

Comments From Parents:

I want to thank ALL of you at MPA for the incredible love, care and blessings you have showered on my daughter. I know that it is your love and care that carried her through. I also know it put an incredible strain on your resources. All the help from staff and love and support from staff and students have touched us all so deeply. MPA is truly an amazing place to foster such open-hearted love. Our gratitude goes very deep. - Parent

I'm so impressed with the program that I plan to send my 12 year old to the school next year or the year after next. I'm convinced that this experience will help my children grow into the adults I see them being. -Parent

Now that my sons have arrived home, I can say with even more depth my profound gratitude for your work this year. My sons are better than ever. Each has made a leap in growth and I want to recognize your contribution in this. - Parent

Well you will be pleased to know that (my son) has been doing really well keeping up with the yoga !!!!
He's been practicing almost everyday; it's part of his life now. The time he spent at MPA was very nourishing to his soul : it has left an imprint on him that can't wash away. - Parent

More Comments from Students:

I love how there is people at MPA from all over the world, how traditions and cultures mix, and languages get taught in exchange for another language. I love how deep friendships become at the school, how everyone becomes a huge family of brothers and sisters. After you finish high school you have friends and connections all over the world. – Sat Nam Kaur Wester

MPA is so special to me because after being here for two years I have friends from all around the world. The friends I have made here are what keeps my heart beating and I would never, for one second, hesitate to call those friends family. – Kartar Kaur Khalsa

Coming to MPA has really broadened my horizons. As a student here I have had the pleasure to live and interact with people from across the globe. Even through our differences we find a way to grow together emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. MPA has created a space that has the atmosphere of a home away from home. – Atma Kaur Khalsa

MPA is its own world where everyone sticks up for each other. Peer pressure is non-existent and everyone supports each other fully. – Siri Amrit Singh Ramos