Yoga Warehouse, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Morning Chant for World Peace and Harmony
Saturday 7:30am (until 7:55 am)

Ongoing -- 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 Saturday morning yoga class 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.

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, 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.

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.

Eye Yoga from Paul McCartney and Yoga2You

What could Paul McCartney have to do with Yoga2You and Eye Yoga? Just as Yoga2You launched its Stress Relief Series on iTunes last February, including Stress Relief for the Eyes, yoga techniques to keep eyes healthy and strong, Paul McCartney posted this YouTube video demonstrating yoga eye exercises. If you haven't seen it, check the link~They are great!

Beatle Paul says Yoga eye exercises have helped his vision stay strong and healthy with age. We completely agree~Yoga eye exercises are amazing! And, they make your eyes feel better immediately. Whether you are a Generation XYZ-er, Baby Boomer, or Octogenarian, these Yoga eye exercises will help you. Taking less than ten minutes and on special for only $1 at CDBaby.com, download today. Your eyes will thank you!

Kirtan at Moksha Yoga in Chicago

Kirtan comes from the Sanskrit word for singing, and is as much a part of yoga as are stretching postures, meditation and breathing. Devi 2000 is Chicago's premier kirtan group with monthly performances at Moksha Yoga Center. Deep reverence, a sense of ritual, and ecstatic peaks of singing and dancing are the vibe at a Devi 2000 kirtan.

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