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Give Love! Join a Nationwide Yoga Aid Challenge

September 13th, 2010 wynona

The folks at the Australian-based YogaAid have dreamed up a large-scale nationwide yoga event on September 18th and 19th to coincide with National Yoga Month.

The two-hour yoga classes around the country will be taught by 12 local yoga teachers to benefit charity. While the biggest events are being held in Chicago, New York, Miami, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco, organizers say that more than 20 others will happen around the country.

Participating in a Yoga Aid Challenge is easy: Log on to www.yogaaid.com and click the red button for the United States Yoga Challenge. Here, you can register to create a profile page.Then people can visit your page and donate–all online.

The idea is that students raise money for charity in advance of the free class. (Many well-meaning charity events actually lose money, because the cost of putting on an event eats into the profits.) YogaAid’s model is funding the event so that all of the money raised goes directly to the chosen charities: Off the Mat, Into the World, Africa Yoga Project, 4OneWorld, and Yoga for Youth.

Beyond raising money, the organizers hope that the event will have a ripple effect, sparking the desire in each student to serve in their community.

Karma Yoga (the yoga of service) is one of yoga’s eight limbs. How do you find ways to serve in your family or community? Let us know.

And to get you in the giving mood, Yoga Aid and MC Yogi have paired up to create the tune, “Give Love.” Download the MP3 for free by going to yogaaid.com and clicking on the blue box at the bottom right hand corner.

Nora Isaacs is a Bay Area-based health writer and editor.

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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Don’t Mess with Texas’ Yogis

August 25th, 2010 kate

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The Cowboys’ football stadium was over run with 400 yogis this weekend. Saluting the sun and lunging their hearts out to help raise money for breast cancer, these yogis raised more than $10,000 and showed the country what yoga can do. Don’t mess with yogis, y’all.

As Nerissa Knight reports from CBS 11:

While the Dallas Cowboys were preparing to meet the Chargers in San Diego on Saturday night, hundreds of women converged on Cowboys Stadium in Arlington to heal their bodies and minds, and they did it all for a great cause.

It was the largest yoga class in Texas. And tickets to the event raised more than $14,000 to help in the fight against breast cancer.



“It’s a great feeling to be here and help raise money,” said Dawn Dixon, who participated in the class. “I’m a survivor myself and I know what it feels like.

“While coach Wade Phillips leads the Cowboys, yoga instructor Wade Morisette (brother of recording artist Alanis Morisette) led a group of about 400 people, mostly women, in the house that Jerry built.

The football stadium was the perfect place for them to practice yoga and help others, thanks to the Dallas County and Greater Fort Worth affiliates of Susan G. Komen For the Cure and Indigo Yoga.


“I’m a breast cancer survivor and I feel great to be here,” said class participant Lisa Prescher. “I feel like it’s a personal accomplishment, and I’d like to share it with others.

“More and more women are using the ‘downward facing dog’ to take a bite out of breast cancer, and attain emotional and spiritual strength. “Breast cancer is really running through our population right now,” said yoga instructor Brooke Hinkle, who was at the Saturday class.

“Yoga is a very powerful practice. It will not only strengthen the immune system, but strengthen the whole body.”

“It was a great time and a great practice,” said class participant Melissa Sexton. “It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.” The group plans to hold a similar event on Sunday at the Fort Worth Zoo. Tickets are $35 each.

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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Is your Dad a Yogi?

June 21st, 2010 levis25

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In 2009, Father’s Day
cost individual consumers an average of $90.89, while Mother’s Day
spending was $123.89, according to a recent National Geographic article. Even though the wallets open less wide than for mother’s day, psychology lecturer Gilbert Cole says the smiles are likely genuine when millions of fathers across
the U.S. open boxes, peel back tissue paper, and admire their new
neckties–still somehow the most common gist for the holiday.

Her research shows that even though
dads get less attention on Father’s Day than moms do on Mother’s Day,
fathers are more likely to be satisfied on their holiday. This letting go of expectation and contentment with what is presented makes Dad, even though he’s never set foot in a yoga studio, a yogi in my book.

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Dharma Initiative

April 26th, 2010 kate

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No question: The Gray Lady has gone ga-ga for yoga. Monday’s New York Times Sunday Styles section features an above-the-fold feature on the “yoga rock star” (not really) Greg Gumucio and his East Village studio, Yoga to the People, which offers classes on a donation-only basis.

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Lend an Ear

April 2nd, 2010 levis25


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Time to do your home practice but not feeling it today? Pop in Yoga Revolution Volume One–a compilation CD that features songs
from “yoga music” superstars like Donna DeLory, Krishna Das, Deva Premal and Miten, and Snatam Kaur as well as from genre benders like Sheryl Crow,
Angelique Kidjo, Sarah McLachlan, and Peter Gabriel. The collection is
uplifting and energizing–perfect for vinyasa flow. And since proceeds from the sale help provide access to yoga for underserved kids around the country, you
can feel good about making an investment in this aural upgrade. BONUS: Fun to listen to off the mat, too, Yoga Revolution
Volume One is the perfect tunage to see you through even the nastiest traffic snarl. Ponder the message behind Ziggy Marley’s “Love is My
Religion” (it’s track 11), and you just might find yourself hitting the repeat button instead of the horn. (Buy it at amazon.com, for $14.99.)

What’s your favorite yoga music?

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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