Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
by columnist Gabrielle Harris, The Suburban Yogini Are you too busy at work to become liberated? Would aliens snatch you up out of your office desk for analysis because of that mindless look on your face? Do you want to incorporate more yoga into your daily work life? Here are a few simple tips to turn your office day into a yoga day. One of the definitions of yoga is to become disconnected from the connection to suffering. Going to work can potentially be a breeding ground for … [Read more...]
By guest author Alanna Krause, Yoga Stops Traffick NZ Global movement Yoga Stops Traffick will sweep New Zealand on March 4 -10, with over 25 events nationwide. Check the events list below for one near you. By attending an event and giving a donation, you can help to end human trafficking and support survivors, many of them children. 100% of donations will go to Odanadi, an organization in India that has rescued over 2000 human trafficking victims and provides a rehabilitation programme … [Read more...]
By guest author Alanna Krause, Yoga Stops Traffick NZ The week of March 4 – 10, all over New Zealand, there will be yoga classes, film screenings, yoga malas (108 sun salutations), and many other events for Yoga Stops Traffick NZ, part of the global effort to end human trafficking. I’d like to share a little bit about my journey and how I came to organize this event. The first time I went to India, years ago, I took a train. There was an old man with a long white beard in my car, … [Read more...]
The single most destructive desire present in the human race is the desire "to make money". In the name of "making money", we make slaves of other people, we rape and pillage the earth, we abuse animals, we create inferior products designed to break down and crowd our landfills, we compromise our internal values, we trample over colleagues, we burn ourselves out, we spend more time working than with our family, and we write it all off as "just business". All this because of our burning … [Read more...]
