Yoga Gives Back Highlights
20.9.11
What I love about the Yoga Gives Back organization is their passion for helping the women of India build sustainable lives for themselves and their families! This work crosses the bridge of empowerment through generations!
Again, if you would like to learn more, participate in the next event or donate, please visit, www.yogagivesback.org!
Yoga Gives Back! September 17th, Join Us!
15.9.11
I'm really frustrated because for some reason I am unable to post videos! What's up Blogger??? I have no idea why. It used to always work. Suggestions? Solutions?
Anyhow, I was going to post the kick-off video for the Yoga Gives Back global event being held this coming Saturday, September 17th. We're doing our part here in Stockholm, and hosting a donation class from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Should be fun! What a great way to support the cause! Thank you Mother India!!!! I'm looking forward to continued work with the Yoga Gives Back organization.
Please join us!
Saturday, September 17th 2011 @ Yogayama, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Come dressed to do yoga and bring a cash donation!!! Hope to see you there! Not in Stockholm? You can also find an event near you by visiting www.yogagivesback.org!
Yoga Gives Back!
9.8.11
"Yoga Gives Back is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds in order to alleviate poverty in India. We started in Los Angeles in 2007, determined to find a way for the US yoga community, which generates over six billion dollars per year, to help the poorest people in country that gave birth to yoga. Many charitable organizations have emerged from within the yoga community, but Yoga Gives Back specifically targets and supports our struggling sisters in India."
Gearing up for an amazing event held on September 17th, 2011!
The Power of Micro Finance!
16.7.11
Recently, I've been asked to be part of the Yoga Gives Back organization serving as Regional Representative in Sweden. I'm sincerely honored and humbled to align myself with the powerful work YGB supports in uplifting the lives of those stricken with paralyzing poverty in India. In the future, I'll be posting more information and videos centered around the great work being done. There's nothing better than paying forward all the blessings bestowed through the practice of yoga. Truly!
Above, is a video highlighting the beauty of micro-finance from the man who started it all, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.
Now, through the inspiring vision of Kayoko Mitsumatsu, the president of Yoga Gives Back, she has expanded this vision to the woman of India inspiring those who practice yoga to be involved.
For more information, please visit, www.yogagivesback.org.
Yoga Stops Traffick - March 12th!!
10.3.11
Odanadi. An amazing organization! Please to all those who practice yoga, observe the plight of women and children caught in the web of human trafficking. Sadly, it is something that still goes on in this day and age. Raising awareness as we come on to our mats, saluting the sun, together we can begin to help one of the most inspiring and successful organizations that rehabilitate the rescued, while saving more! Visit, donate, and/or participate at a venue near you! www.yogastopstraffick.org
Mysore STOPS Traffick!
13.3.10
(photos by Sean Cleere)
Started in the heart of Mysore. Spread around the world. Offering support by moving through a series of sun salutations. Yoga STOPS traffick! Raising awareness around the plight of children affected by human trafficking. An unfortunate reality in this day and age. However, through the amazing organization, Odanadi, those affected can be healed. Through the arts, they can thrive.
To learn more. To become involved. To offer your support, please visit the following!
www.yogastopstraffick.org
www.odanadi.org
www.odanadi-uk.org
Yoga STOPS Traffick
11.3.10
YOGA STOPS TRAFFICK is a one-day global Yoga event to raise awareness about human trafficking in India and arcross the world.Visit: www.yogastopstraffick.org
On MARCH 13th 2010 Yogis everywhere will roll out their Yoga mats to take a stand against trafficking and show their support to its millions of victims.
Kicking-off from the grounds of the Mysore Royal Palace, YOGA STOPS TRAFFICK INDIA will be led by a group of young people from local anti-trafficking organisation Odanadi Seva Trust, many of whom are survivors of slavery, domestic abuse and forced prostitution. Over the years Astanga Yoga has come to play a vital role in their rehabilitation program: building their physical and mental strength, restoring a sense of peace, confidence and self-worth.
Get involved by organising your own YOGA STOPS TRAFFICK event at your local yoga centres, living rooms, parks or any other public spaces – just use your imaginations.
To request more information, promotional materials, fundraising suggestions or to find out more about Odanadi please contact Sean Cleere or Sarah Harris at yogastopstraffick@gmail.com. Or just visit our website www.odanadi-uk.org.
(excerpt taken from the yoga stops traffick website)
Practice for the Children Pendants!!!
3.12.09
Designed by Lena
"Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls. Charity is for the purification of the heart; when given to suitable persons, it leads one to advanced spiritual life."
(Bhagavad-gita)
Okay, everybody! My inspiration. The one who shoots me rays of sunshine over cyberspace. Tracy! An absolutely amazing woman. I so enjoy sitting back and seeing what she will come up with next, and she NEVER disappoints.
Being a passionate supporter of charitable causes in India, her current project is coined "Practice for the Children Pendants." By purchasing the following pendant in honor of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, proceeds go the following charity Operation Shanti.
Operation Shanti Envisions...
A world in which the poor are given the opportunity to reach their full potential in life.
Spreading peace, goodwill, and hope throughout our world by helping the poorest and neediest gain status and their rightful place in their societies is the vision of Operation Shanti. Often, the poor are robbed of their human rights, are discarded, treated inhumanely, or are ignored. The ultimate goal of our work strives to give the poor back their rights as human beings.
Operation Shanti's Mission is...
To directly improve the lives of exploited, at-risk, destitute children and the forgotten, suffering elderly, enabling them to become "beacons of light" and share the same gifts of peace, goodwill, and generosity with others for the rest of their lifetimes.
We help the poorest and neediest children and elderly, and the forgotten destitute, with the basic human needs: food, shelter, medical services and educational assistance. As we believe that every human can and should stand on his/her own, we are there to help the destitute begin to help themselves.
With such commitment, and undying selfless enthusiasm Tracy brings to this current project and to the children of Operation Shanti, I encourage those interested to click on the following link, to her blog, to purchase a pendant in honor of our dear Guruji, that will in turn better the lives of children this great charity touches. For only $34 USD. the pendant can be shipped anywhere in the world. So don't delay!
I say this because it comes from a heart, so big, I continually draw unlimited sources of inspiration from her. Dear Tracy!
A Lotus Girl (click here, look for 'pendant' in the right hand column once you reach the site)
Designed by Lena
Just got mine the other day, and happy to be supporting such a great cause!