Sunyoga » Universal Peace Conference 2022 (online)

All sessions can be found on Sunyogi’s Youtube channel.

Friday 18 February

Opening Ceremony Watch Video

11:00-11:30 Indian Standard Time (IST) D. R. Kaarthikeyan| Vaishnavi and Shambhavi

Session 1 – Enlightenment Watch Video

11:30-12:00 IST Jasmuheen| 12:00-12:30 IST François Gerland

Session 2 – Universal Peace Watch Video

13:00-13:20 IST D. R. Kaarthikeyan| 13:20-13:40 IST Dada Acharya Ragamayananda Avadhuta| 13:40-14:00 IST Mohanji

Cultural Program Lunch – Art Watch Video

15:00-16:00 IST Michaela Christiana Wiegele| Devang Raval “Aman”| Ewa Olsson| Bhavana Gesota| Jonathan Charpentier

Session 3 – 4 Corner Debate Watch Video

17:00-19:00 IST Trilobaba

Session 4 – Green Solutions Watch Video

18:00-18:20 IST Patel Dhaval Suryakant| 18:20-18:40 IST Prashant Bhatt| 18:40-19:00 IST Sonal Jain Baid

Cultural Program Evening – Tibetan Sound Healing Watch Video

20:00-21:00 IST Jignasha Kulkarniand Dipika Parmar

Saturday 19 February

Session 1 – Consciousness Watch Video

11:00-11:20 IST Dr. Vikas Saxena| 11:20-11:40 IST Dr Preeti Kohli| 11:40-12:00 IST Michiko Hayashi Watch Video

Session 2 – Holistic Medicine

13:00-13:20 IST Dr. Nitin Nayak, MD| 13:20-13:40 IST Dr. Vaidya Milan Bhatt| 13:40-14:00 IST Dr. Boris Dragin

Cultural Program Lunch – Dance/Song/Karate Watch Video

15:00-16:00 IST Vaishnavi and Shambhavi| Gîta Harh| Ravi Kant| Azad Hind International Karate Foundation

Session 3 – Yoga Presentations Watch Video

16:00-17:00 IST Ramdas Tikamdas| 17:00-17:20 IST Shyam Kumar Bhatt (Sahaj Marg, Shri Ram Chandra Mission)

Session 4 – Mind Warfare Watch Video

17:20-18:00 IST Judyth Vary Baker| 18:00-18:40 IST Crystal C.C. Goh| 18:40-19:20 IST Kian369

Cultural Program Evening – Music/Dance

20:00-20:30 IST Sébastien DavidWatch Video | 20:30-21:30 IST “Tandav Nartan” Institute of Classical Dance

Sunday 20 February

Session 1 – Healing Nature Watch Video

11:00-11:20 IST Phil Lane Jr., Hereditary Chief| 11:20-11:40 IST Moughenda Mikala, shaman| 11:40-12:00 IST Trilobaba

Session 2 – Ecovillages Watch Video

13:00-13:20 IST Bhavana Gesota| 13:20-13:40 IST Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya (Poland)| 13:40-14:00 IST Project Eternity

Cultural Program Lunch – Singing

15:00-15:30 IST Chloé Albares Watch Video | 15:30-16:00 IST Didi Ananda Krpa Watch Video

Session 3 – Child Development Watch Video

16:00-16:20 IST Julie Gerland| 16:20-16:40 IST Smrithi Adinarayanan| 16:40-17:00 IST Meena Bindal

Session 4 – Origin of Languages Watch Video

18:00-18:20 IST Dan Winter| 18:20-18:40 IST Jose Antonio Fernandez| 18:40-19:00 IST Vedveer Arya

Cultural Program Evening – Tabla/Poetry

20:00-20:30 IST Jajvalya Shukla Watch Video | 20:30-21:00 IST Judyth Vary Baker Watch Video

UPC2022 details

We are pleased to invite all of you to the 22nd Universal Peace Conference (UPC 2022). The conference was started by Swamiji Sunyogi Umasankar, now somewhere in the Himalayas, for his 3-year retreat. Before leaving, Swamiji’s will was that we continue organizing Universal Peace Conference during these years. The organizing team tried their best to invite the most magnificent and exciting speakers for the audience, and the list of names can be found below.

During the 3 day event, there will be 11 thematic sessions with around 33 speakers and 7 artistic programs. The topics will connect to Peace but are very wide, including Spirituality, Yoga, Human Rights, Science, and Sustainability. At each 2-hour session, we let all three speakers begin with 20 minutes long individual presentations of their topics, followed by a 1-hour-long Questions & Answers part.

Some technical notes:

■ Date: 18-20 February 2022 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

■ At the beginning of each session, the speakers present their topics. After all the speakers gave their presentations, we followed the Questions & Answers part. During the Q&A, we plan a joint one-hour-long discussion on the session topic. The conference atmosphere is quiet as in one big family. The audience is active and does not limit themself to only asking the speakers questions; everyone is welcome to share thoughts, comments, and personal experiences.

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■ Speakers at UPC2022

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■ History of Universal Peace Conference

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Patel Dhaval Suryakant

Country: India

Patel Dhaval Suryakant graduateed as Bachelor of Commerce from Sardar Vallabhbhai University, India. He has been involved in Nature Club movement of WWF-India since 1982, from the age of 12.

Patel is a Founder Member and Managing Trustee of Vidyanagar Nature Club, VNC. VNC has arranged environment camps for students of several schools and colleges of Anand & Vidyanagar. VNC has conducted education workshops on snakes, in which more than 300,000 students have participated. 34 years of professional experience in the field of Environmental Conservation. Successfully lead 37 projects pertaining to environment education, awareness, and wildlife conservation. Recipient of 7th VNM Environmental Excellence Award in NGO category. Have trained approximate 650 + Volunteers, who are in turn training many more. The outreach of camps, training program is approximately 300,000+ number of people. VNC has carried out “Save Whale Shark” campaign along with WTI, in which more than 21,000 students were educated. VNC has carried out successful campaign for introducing pollution control regulations for industries in Anand – Vidyanagar region. VNC has organized public campaign against cutting of trees in Vallabh Vidyanagar. VNC is accredited by GEF Global Environment Facilities, Washington DC USA. VNC is member NGO of SAYEN, South Asia Youth and Environment Network.

He has been invited for five times to Japan, by organization headed by Ex. Prime Minister of Japan and other parliament members. Dhaval Patel has attended conferences, in October 2005, again in June 2006, held at Tokyo, Japan and presented a paper on the activities of VNC. Furthermore, he attended (as observer) 14th ECO-ASIA (meeting of Environment Ministers of all countries from Asia and pacific region) on 24th June 2006, held at Saitama city Japan. Attended meetings again in March 2007 May 2008 and in October 2009.

Member of WERN, wildlife rescue network of India. And several other wildlife related organizations. Have been member of Friend of Earth, International and many other conservation organizations. Has attended IUCN’s Crocodile Specialist Group world congress at Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA in 2014. Voluntary Nature Conservancy is also registered as 501C (3) Charity in USA.

Patel held the following honorary posts: Managing Trustee: Vidyanagar Nature Club; Joint Secretary & Co-opted Member: Working Committee Charotar Grammoddhar Shakari Mandal Ltd.; Secretary & Trustee: Bhaikaka Foundation; Trustee: Sardar Vallabhbhai Trust; Honorary wildlife warden, Anand District; Co-opted member ‘Animal Welfare Board of India’, Gujarat region; Voluntary Nature Conservancy, USA.

Phil Lane Jr., Hereditary Chief

Country: Canada

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development.

During the past 54 years, Chief Lane has worked with Indigenous Peoples from the Americas, Micronesia, South East Asia, China, India, Hawaii, and Africa. He served 16 years as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (1980-1996). In 1982, Chief Lane co-founded the Four Worlds International Institute (FWII) with Indigenous Elders and Spiritual Leaders. As well, Phil is Chairman of Four Directions International and Compassion Games International.

Chief Lane has been the recipient of multiple awards and recognition. He was the first indigenous person to win the prestigious Windstar Award, presented annually on behalf of the late John Denver and the Windstar Foundation. In 2000, he received the Year 2000 Award for Freedom and Human Rights awarded by the Swiss Foundation. Other winners of this award include Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, the Dalai Lama, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Yevgeni Velikhov, Vice President, Soviet Academy of Sciences.

In 2008, Chief Lane received the Ally Award presented by the Center for Healing Racism. Particular emphasis for this award was for his dedicated work, for more than 19 years, as one of the key Indigenous leaders in the resolution of Canada’s Residential School issue, which involved the sexual, physical, cultural, psychological, and emotional abuse of thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada. The process resulted in a more than $4 billion settlement for Residential School survivors.

On August 15, 1992, in recognition of his hereditary lineage of leadership and longtime service to Indigenous Peoples and the Human Family, Indigenous Elders from across North America recognized Phil as a Hereditary Chief of the Hinhan Wicasa and Deloria Tiospayes of the Ihanktonwan Nation, through a Traditional Headdress Ceremony.

Chief Lane currently serves as a member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, (AISES), Council of Elders. He is the host of the Shift Network’s Global Indigenous Wisdom Summits. As well, Chief Lane is an Honorary International Advisor to the Help Foundation of the Beijing Women’s and Children’s Development Foundation and is a co-founder and Global Trustee of the United Religions Initiative.

In 1982, with Indigenous elders and spiritual leaders from across North America, Chief Lane founded the Four Worlds International Institute (FWII). FWII became an independent Institute in 1995. With Chief Lane’s guidance and applied experience, FWII has become an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development because of the Institute’s unique focus on the importance of culture and spirituality in all elements of development.