Holistic Holiday at Sea™ VII March 21st - 28th, 2010
A Taste of Health presents the ultimate gift for your mind, body and spirit. Share the experience and wisdom of some of the world’s leading authorities and experts in holistic living and natural health.
Cruise the Eastern Caribbean on one of the world's premier Italian luxury liners, the Costa Fortuna, which combines the style and sophistication of Europe with American comforts and convenience. Visit exciting ports of call, such as pristine St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; historic San Juan, Puerto Rico; and romantic Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands while you dine on specially prepared organic natural foods and beverages prepared by our own chefs.
Lectures and workshops included. Continuing education credits (CEUs) are available.
Fertile Earth Foundation presents Feast on the Farm at Paradise Farms, Miami, Florida
Feast on the Farm Fundraising Dinner & Silent Auction
Sunday, March 7, 2010, from 5pm - 8:30pm $100 Donation. No tickets will be sold at the door.
Think you might enjoy eating organically grown food deliciously prepared by some of the finest chefs in Miami while supporting a good cause? This is your chance!
Fertile Earth requests the presence of your company at Feast on the Farm Fundraising Dinner Party & Silent Auction at Paradise Farms to benefit Fertile Roots Miami and other Fertile Earth Foundation projects.
Enjoy a delicious four course organic dinner created and prepared by some of Miami's finest chefs including Amarylis Guindin, Chef/Owner of Galerie Gourmet, Lynn Moulton, Area 31/Epic Hotel, Micah Edelstein, Grass Restaurant & Lounge, Dionette Kalkhofer, Om Garden Restaurant in the beautiful surroundings of the organic Paradise Farms. A live auction of spa, restaurant, hotel packages and more follow dinner.
Fertile Earth Foundation presents an Organic Feast on the Farm Fundraiser at Paradise Farms, Miami, Florida
Celebrating the beginning of sustainable composting in South Florida, Fertile Earth Foundation is presenting this delicious four course dinner—created and prepared by some of Miami's finest chefs including Amarylis Guindin, Chef/Owner of Galerie Gourmet, Lynn Moulton, Area 31/Epic Hotel, Micah Edelstein, Grass Restaurant & Lounge, Dionette Kalkhofer, Om Garden Restaurant—in the beautiful surroundings of the organic Paradise Farms. A live auction of spa, restaurant, hotel packages and more follow dinner.
Fertile Earth Foundation was created to educate, inspire, and spark change in the community and to initiate a dialogue between the community, businesses and municipalities. FEF orchestrates unique and stimulating events that showcase specific topics relating to how individuals, corporations and communities can lessen their footprint on Earth.
Fertile Roots Miami is a collaboration of organizations working together to help hotels and restaurants compost food waste, create soil amendment for urban gardening projects and create jobs and income by selling local produce back to the restaurants, thus closing the local food and waste production loop. Urban Gardening Project in Coconut Grove – local garden for residents in Coconut Grove.
Feast on the Farm Fundraising Dinner & Silent Auction
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 5pm - 8:30pm
$100 Donation. No tickets will be sold at the door. To purchase tickets, please click here.
Flu Prevention Immune Boosting Workshop Yoga Warehouse, Fort Lauderdale, FL
If you live in or near Fort Lauderdale, don't miss this healing workshop presented by Shyam and Mohini of the Yoga Warehouse! It is very much worth the time and investment to stay healthier during Flu Season and all year round.
Learn how to strengthen your immune system using simple yogic techniques like nasal irrigation. Improve your body's overall defense mechanisms, including its ability to fight viral diseases, with Ayurvedic teas and lifestyle suggestions. Help speed up your recovery process if you do get the flu.
Workshop will include talk, demonstrations and practice.
Space limited, advance sign-up required. $18. Contact the Yoga Warehouse for additional information or to reserve your space!
Please bring your own neti pot. Ceramic and plastic neti pots are available at the YW store.
(If you can't attend, take a moment to read Saraswati's immune-boosting suggestions posted on the Blog section.)
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.
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.
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.
Charity Spotlight
Best Friends Animal Society operates the country’s largest sanctuary for homeless animals and works globally with animal shelters and rescue groups to bring about a time when there will be no more homeless pets.
(Photo credit: www.bestfriends.org)
Peace on Earth, Peace Within
from Yoga2You
Peace on Earth, Peace Within Yoga2You Introduces News Category Dedicated to Peace
"Now think of this: everyday, every week, regularly and all around the world there are people, individuals and groups, praying, chanting, meditating in one form or another for Peace."
There is a saying in yoga that for there to be Peace on Earth, peace must exist within our own hearts. Which makes sense, really, when you think about this idea in physical terms. I know when I have a toothache, for example, I usually stay to myself because it's really hard when a tooth is throbbing to be pleasant with anyone. Pain makes most of us cranky. Likewise, it can be difficult (if not impossible) to be peaceful when we are in any kind of pain~whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or these days, for many of us, financial.
Along with physical pain, we generally feel out of sorts, abnormal. "Our nerves are on end" can be said of such instances, but the same can be said of other kinds of stressful times and other types of pain as well, right? I can recall having to deal with a flat on the Dan Ryan Expressway in the harsh Chicago winter winds. Nerves definetly on end. Or times when loved ones were injured, when loved ones died, of other losses, injuries, estrangements, miscommunications. Pain comes in many shapes, sizes, places and persuasions.
Nails scratching on a blackboard, a screeching cat, a disharmonious chord come to mind as sounds that would represent such discordant experiences. But what does sound have to do with Yoga or Peace? Well, in a word: Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Without getting too complicated here about a rather complicated part of human life and yogic teachings, let's just say as simply as possible that there is more to human life than the physical body alone, kind of like the mind is more than the brain. So, the idea then is that doing something like chanting "om" helps create a physical vibration~from within~that balances the energy in our physical and other "bodies" (and their components, which the yogic teachings refer to as sheaths). It follows that in balancing our personal energy, we also emit balanced energies, and so peace within helps to effect peace in the world as well.
Now think of this: everyday, every week, regularly and all around the world there are people, individuals and groups, praying, chanting, meditating in one form or another for Peace.
In yoga, there is also the consideration of intentions. The Bhagavad Gita is all about intentions. Long before "The Secret," swamis and yogis have been talking about thought as energy and the power of intentions. If thought can be considered one of the root forms of energy, does knowing that others are using their energy to focus on Peace, however brief, however varied in practices or beliefs, make any difference? Media keeps us abreast of discordant events. You know, murders, crimes, senseless tragedies, political bantering and slandering, those kinds of things that tuning in to watch provides the incentive to cover. But when we focus too much on this kind of news, are we quite unintentionally propagating these events by investing our attention in them? Peace gatherings aren't usually the headlines that grab viewers. Yet, could the collective force of the energies focused on Peace create a stronger force for Peace just by knowing others are sharing this very same intention? Every day, all around the planet?
In asana class, we sometimes look at pictures of the lungs, the heart, the digestive organs so that during our bending, twisting and breathing of yoga asana practice, sending healing and relaxing intentions to these organs, we can really see them, believing that seeing these images help us visualize more effectively. Along these same lines, could picturing others visualizing with us for Peace, whether it is only one person's deep inner peace or a grove full of people praying and chanting, make our collective efforts that much more effective as well? We certainly hope so.
It is with this intention that Yoga2You is adding a new Peace category to our News and Events section in order to share information about Peace efforts going on in communities far and wide. If you read this and know of a Peace event or effort, please let us know, or post them yourself by registering at the right.
Yoga is one of many things we can do to help us balance our energy. Chanting Om, or chanting a personal mantra, repetitive prayer, silent meditation are some additional options. When we find that place of peace within, pain is often neutralized or lessened; we are no longer "out of sorts." And this applies to all of the bodies, as yogis we believe even the bodies beyond our bodies, or the universal body, become affected by these vibrations.
So consider devoting a little time each day, some way, to practice Peace. Please visit this section regularly to learn and share about others sharing these intentions and practices for Peace. Namaste.
If you need help bring the mind to rest and connecting wtih that peaceful energy within, Yoga2You has been working for Peace on Earth one person at a time with its Stress Relief relaxation therapies, helping 1,000-plus people (to date) connect with that place of deep inner peace. Use these helpful tools: 10 Minutes of Stress Relief CD or NEW Stress Relief Digital Only Bonus Edition (Downloads are GREEN and Give Back!).
Commit a random ACT of KINDNESS today, if only with your intentions and nothing more.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you know of people, groups, or organizations that are regularly meeting, chanting or meditating in the effort of a more peaceful world, we want to know. Please sign up to post your events (register to the right), or email us with a summary of the event including WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and any additional details or photos you'd like to share. Thank you.
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Along with physical pain, we generally feel out of sorts, abnormal. "Our nerves are on end" can be said of such instances, but the same can be said of other kinds of stressful times and other types of pain as well, right? I can recall having to deal with a flat on the Dan Ryan Expressway in the harsh Chicago winter winds. Nerves definetly on end. Or times when loved ones were injured, when loved ones died, of other losses, injuries, estrangements, miscommunications. Pain comes in many shapes, sizes, places and persuasions.
