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Last October, yoga teacher Lisa Rueff headed to Haiti to help out after the earthquake.
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Yoga Teacher Helps Heal Haiti
May 16th, 2011 
greenleads 
Posted in Relaxation Techniques, yoga poses 
Tags: celebrate-life, collective, earthquake, jacmel, jacmel-children, much-heartache, rueff, yoga-community 
Comments OffKarmaTube: Be the Change
May 11th, 2011 kate In the age of YouTube, it’s fun to sit back and watch a video of twins talking or a cat using the potty. But KarmaTube wants videos to do more than entertain: they view video as a medium to inspire action–either in the world or in your own heart.
The website features videos that both pull your heartstrings and make you want to jump out of your seat and do something: Recent ones showed how some creative kids in Thailand started their own football team; a project that provides handmade hats to orphans in South Africa; and how one woman found art to help heal after the loss of a child. After each video, KarmaTube suggests ways you can create change based on what you just saw, whether this means thinking about tackling a problem in a new way, or volunteering in your community.
Visit here to watch a video, suggest a video, create a video, or spread the word.
We want to know: What do you do that inspires Karma Yoga (the yoga of action) in others?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
Posted in Personal Stories, Relaxation Techniques, yoga poses Tags: after-the-loss, creative-kids, heartstrings, karma, karma-yoga, means-thinking, south-africa, spread-the-word, started-their, suggests-ways, twins-talking, using-the-potty, yoga Comments OffMediations on Fasting
May 2nd, 2011 kate 
Hunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human experience. Writing about the Islam occasion of Ramadan, Ali articulates the process of fasting from dusk to dawn:
“Twenty-nine or thirty days to explore the line
between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think
about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes.
between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think
about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes.
He also compares the process to yoga. “[Yoga] is a practice, not unlike fasting, that allows us to practice linking
the inside-the private experiences of the body and the mind-with the
outside, the pulsing, breathing, actual world.”
the inside-the private experiences of the body and the mind-with the
outside, the pulsing, breathing, actual world.”
Even if you’ve never fasted in your life, Ali addresses the other way we deny our appetites–something most human beings can relate to.
We want to know: Have you ever denied your appetite? What was the result?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
Posted in health benefits, Relaxation Techniques, yoga poses Tags: also-compares, appetite, appetites, body, interior, islam, mind, news, nine-or-thirty, oberlin-college, process, pulsing, surrounding, yoga-instructor Comments OffWhite House Easter Yoga
April 27th, 2011 kate 
“Let’s roll some eggs
and do some yoga!” exclaimed First Lady Michelle Obama, from the White House balcony on Monday morning.
The theme for this year’s annual White House Easter Egg Roll
was “Get Up and Go!” a reflection of the First Lady’s nationwide campaign
against childhood obesity through exercise and healthy eating.
Posted in health benefits, yoga poses Tags: america, children, country, easter, first-lady, from-the-white, kids, michelle-obama, white, white-house, yoga Comments OffAnusara Yoga Heads to Encinitas, CA
April 27th, 2011 levis25 Anusura Yoga founder John Friend has announced the fall opening of an worldwide center for Anusara Yoga in Encinitas, California. Friend told Buzz that the center will include an 8,500-square-foot state-of-the-art studio, a soundstage for talks and concerts, and plenty of workshops, trainings, and gatherings, and will host visiting scholars and master teachers of other disciplines.
Posted in health benefits, Personal Stories, yoga poses Tags: anusara-yoga, anusura-yoga, certain-places, co-create-some, george-harrison, master-teachers, news, pattabhi-jois, positive-energy, realization, spiritual Comments Off