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AN EVENING OF WISDOM & MEDITATION
with SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa
3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood
For more information, click HERE
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Spring Yoga at the Chicago Botanic Garden with Steve Nakon
Spring Yoga begins the Week of April 5th.
Nine classes to choose from Monday thru Thursday, Morning and Evening.
Visit this link for more information.
"The perfect environment for yoga." Northshore Magazine
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Guy Spiro's Lightworks.com, based in Chicago, Illinois, has been championing another approach for world peace. Called the Light Wave, you send light energy by yourself or in a group with others.
"The LightWave gathers people from all walks of life, religious backgrounds, and philosophical perspectives, to come together and generate light daily for the transformation of our world. This can be done through prayer, meditation, drumming, dancing, yoga, or any other light creating activity. It can be done alone or in groups.
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Give Peace a Chant! Kirtan, Vancouver, BC
Give Peace a Chant! Kirtan officially began in the spirit of service as a weekly kirtan gathering in 2001 in Vancouver, BC. Founded by Sandra Leigh, Artistic Director and Kirtaniya, this weekly kirtan was inspired by The World Peace Flame, the power of love and yoga, and the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Give Peace a Chant! Kirtan continues to offer yogic chanting to an inter-spiritual community that uses sound and song to better the busy world.
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Yoga Warehouse, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Morning Chant for World Peace and Harmony
Wed&Thurs @ 9:30am / Sat & Sun @ 7:30am
Ongoing through 2009 -- The Yoga Warehouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is doing its part to help make your world a more peaceful place, inside and out. They are offering morning chanting sessions beginning before morning yoga classes to support inner and outer peace. FREE and open to all.
Om namo narayanaya is an ancient Sanskrit chant, or repetitive prayer, that is considered to be a powerful agent for peace.
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A Worldwide Circle of Prayer
Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, holds a Worldwide Prayer Circle every week with hundreds of thousands of members around the world, open to all.
Each week, people gather at SRF temples and centers, but many also gather in their homes for private prayer services for healing. The Prayer Circle members gather to pray for healing: healing of the body, mind, soul ignorance, and of course world healing for world peace and harmony. Yogananda often stated that the highest service one could do was to pray for humanity.
Paramahansa Yogananda taught that true prayer is scientific — being based on precise laws that govern all creation — and is a daily necessity for harmonious living. He explained that our physical bodies and the material world we live in are condensations of invisible patterns of energy. That energy in turn is an expression of finer blueprints of thought — the subtlest vibration — which governs all manifestations of energy and matter.
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Peace Domes for the World
Hugh Simpson has a mission to build Peace Domes all over the world in 2010. Plans are to build three of the Peace Domes before the kick off date of January 1, 2010 in Atlanta, South Africa and India - homes of Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, the three pillars of Peace.
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Celebrate Peace on International Peace Day |
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from Yoga2You
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Celebrate Peace on International Peace Day, this Monday September 21st!
"Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Or it can involve getting your co-workers, organization, community or government engaged in a large event. The impact if millions of people in all parts of the world, coming together for one day of peace, is immense."
Did you know that this Monday, September 21st, is International Peace Day? Established by a United Nations resolution in 1981, the first International Peace Day was held in September 1982, marking 2009 as the 27th year.
 Very recently, Yoga2You has expanded its News & Events section to include postings specifically related to Peace. (If you'd like to read more about that decision and section, view this link.) Because of that, I became aware of this Peace effort by these representives from countries around the world. I am embarrassed to admit in such a public format that I had not heard of this day before, or if I had, I must have dismissed it.
I imagine there are many others like me, passing that kind of information by in the blur of another day. Even though I am a Yoga teacher, I so very much know how it is. Yet, I know how important mindfulness is as well, and in this instance to be mindful of how we personally and collectively are using our mental energies. Not for some abstract tree-hugging kind of experience, but so as not to invest an imbalanced amount of energy into negativity, or the drama that gets reported all around us. To be responsible for giving equal footing to the positive, reading about (or participating in) these and other Peace efforts, for example, and also to give footing to the sublime (resulting from the practice of bringing the mind to rest*).
.gif) Read more about the International Day of Peace by visiting this link!
Please take a minute to visit our new Peace section.
Share your thoughts and events with comments or posts of your own. Email us with any questions. Namaste.
Excerpted from The International Day of Peace Web site:
"Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Or it can involve getting your co-workers, organization, community or government engaged in a large event. The impact if millions of people in all parts of the world, coming together for one day of peace, is immense.
International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire – personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind."
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