Spirituality, Yoga & Sustainability

Overview of Courses (all five courses are 6 ECTS each)

• Spiritual transformation through Hindu Texts (level 200)

  Spiritual Transformation through Hindu Texts introduces students to the transformative role of Hindu texts in shaping spiritual life, self-understanding, ethical reflection, and lived practice. Students engage with key scriptural traditions and explore their relevance for contemporary personal and societal transformation.

  Unique features:

  • Studies Hindu texts as sources of spiritual transformation and ethical reflection.
  • Connects classical scriptural traditions with contemporary questions of meaning, identity, and lived practice.
  • Encourages students to reflect on the relationship between text, interpretation, and transformation.
  • Develops academic and intercultural understanding of Hindu spiritual traditions.

• Spiritual living in Hindu philosophies (level 200)

  Spiritual living in Hindu philosophies explores how Hindu philosophical traditions can inform spiritual living, ethical reflection, and personal development. Students examine key Hindu philosophies not only as abstract systems of thought, but as practical frameworks for living meaningfully in contemporary society.

  Unique features:

  • Introduces Hindu philosophies as practical frameworks for spiritual living.
  • Connects philosophical reflection with ethical action and personal development.
  • Helps students understand how Hindu thought traditions address questions of self, society, and meaning.
  • Makes classical Indian philosophical traditions accessible and relevant for contemporary students.

• Spirituality and Sustainability (level 300)

  Spirituality and Sustainability connects spirituality with urgent questions of sustainability, climate change, SDGs, uncertainty, and social transformation. Students examine how spiritual traditions and worldviews can contribute to sustainable living, responsible action, and integrative approaches to global challenges.

  Unique features:

  • Connects spirituality with sustainability, climate change, SDGs, and social transformation.
  • Explores how worldviews shape sustainable behaviour and responsible action.
  • Addresses contemporary uncertainty and complexity through integrative perspectives.
  • Encourages students to connect inner transformation with societal and ecological change.

• Yoga, Business and Leadership (level 300)

  Yoga, Business and Leadership explores the relevance of yoga, self-awareness, ethics, and contemplative practices for business, leadership, entrepreneurship, and organisational life. Students reflect on leadership in a VUCA world and develop integrative perspectives on responsible and sustainable leadership.

  Unique features:

  • Connects yoga, self-awareness, and contemplative practice with leadership and business.
  • Explores responsible leadership in a VUCA world.
  • Encourages students to reflect on ethics, entrepreneurship, and organisational life.
  • Develops integrative perspectives on sustainable and purpose-driven leadership.

• Practicing Integrative Worldviews in the Technology Era (level 100)

  Practicing Integrative Worldviews in the Technology Era helps students understand and practice integrative worldviews in the context of the technology era. Students explore how Hindu knowledge traditions, spirituality, ethics, and reflective practice can support meaningful engagement with digital transformation, social complexity, and contemporary life.

  Unique features:

  • Introduces students to integrative worldviews in the context of the technology era.
  • Connects Hindu knowledge traditions with ethics, reflection, and digital transformation.
  • Helps students respond to social complexity through integrative and reflective practice.
  • Builds a foundation for engaging meaningfully with contemporary technological and societal change.