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.
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.
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.
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)
Give Peace a Chant Kirtan - Vancouver BC
from Sandra Leigh
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.
Give Peace A Chant Kirtan is Vancouver's community gathering for the celebration of yoga chants, sweet bhajans, mantra meditations, satsang and Inter-spiritual peace prayers. Kirtan is part of the path of the Yoga of Sound (Nada Yoga) and is based in Bhakti or Devotional Yoga.
Held on the 1st, 3rd (and 5th when applicable) Friday evenings of the month, Give Peace a Chant! Kirtan is a place for everyone... healers, sacred music enthusiasts, travellers and awakening western yogis, and newcomers, too. Everyone is welcome to connect to his or her own divinity through the miracle of music and chanting the Name.
Give Peace A Chant! Kirtan is committed to the belief that there is a yoga for everyone and Kirtan is yoga, too. Their mission statement is simply peace through music, their method is Inter-spiritual Kirtan, and their service is singing the Name!
Yoga2You wants to help spread the blessings of peace. Yoga teaches us that for their to be peace in the world, peace begins within. Some days it is harder than others. But yoga also teaches us to "make the attempt," like making the attempt of a difficult yoga pose. Over time, it usually comes. So if it is possible to use our energy to effect peace in the world and peace within, let us make the attempt. Find a little time each week to think, sing, pray or make some effort for Peace. If you know of Peace Gatherings, please let us know, or post them yourself by registering on the right. Namaste.
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