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)
A Worldwide Circle of Prayer
from Kerry C. Hoey
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.
SRF also has a Prayer Council. In the Prayer Council, monks and nuns pray every morning and every evening. The Council deeply meditates and prays for others, and performs the healing technique practiced and taught by Paramahansa Yogananda. Anyone can provide a name in privacy that they wish the prayer council to include in their prayers. That person will remain in their prayers for three months.
Paramahansa Yogananda rendered a great service to humanity through his prayers for world peace and for the healing of others’ physical, mental, and spiritual afflictions. Each morning in deep meditation he invoked God’s blessings on all who had requested help, and sent them healing energy through performance of a simple but highly effective technique. As time went on, Paramahansaji asked all of the monks and nuns of the Self-Realization Order to join him in this endeavor to serve the world through prayer. Thus was born the Self-Realization Fellowship Prayer Council.
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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.
SRF also has a Prayer Council. In the Prayer Council, monks and nuns pray every morning and every evening. The Council deeply meditates and prays for others, and performs the healing technique practiced and taught by Paramahansa Yogananda. Anyone can provide a name in privacy that they wish the prayer council to include in their prayers. That person will remain in their prayers for three months.
Paramahansa Yogananda rendered a great service to humanity through his prayers for world peace and for the healing of others’ physical, mental, and spiritual afflictions. Each morning in deep meditation he invoked God’s blessings on all who had requested help, and sent them healing energy through performance of a simple but highly effective technique. As time went on, Paramahansaji asked all of the monks and nuns of the Self-Realization Order to join him in this endeavor to serve the world through prayer. Thus was born the Self-Realization Fellowship Prayer Council.
