Incorporating Yoga, Radio Exercises, and Meditation in a English Medium Instruction-based Anthropology class

This paper describes the evolution of an English Medium Instruction-based Anthropology of the Body class with incorporation of Yoga, Japanese Radio Exercises and other similar exercises from various countries, and Meditation as awareness raising and mitigation for problems students experience due to sedentism of contemporary young adult life. These measures were implemented and researched in my ANT3111 (Topics) Anthropology of the Body class. As an innovative part of my pedagogy, this unit has undergone continual revision in a PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) loop in order to improve contents and delivery throughout. The ultimate goal of this project is to expand offerings of exercise: radio taisō , yoga, and mindfulness meditation, in the university educational system, as seen in other universities worldwide, to mitigate the negative effects of academic life on the human body