Please join Shiva Rea for a simple, practical and positive response to our current energy crisis - yoga energy activism. She is inviting you to become a YEA - Yoga Energy Ambassador or just Energy Ambassador or just be involved for one day - Earth Day - and if you are inspired, to continue on for the next 6 months till Sept. 21st. (See video —->)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV6exQDqRc&w=560&h=315]
In the US, we waste more energy than we create, we throw away more food than we eat and are fueling 95% of our life from sources that are limited and polluting when it would only take .02% of the sun’s energy everyday to power the world’s current energy needs.
So let’s restore energy! Create your own Energy Regeneration Day - a retreat that includes
* unplugging and going solar or candlelight (all electricity except your refrigerator) and accounting for your carbon footprint by retreating or supporting Global Green’s carbon offset program
* tuning in (regenerating your energy in your own way through the yoga, being with your loved ones, resting, creating, playing)
* clearing up - fasting (from food and-or technology), feasting (with eco-positive vegan food) and trying to go for Zero Waste.
Our goal is for 1,008 people or more to sign-up for the YEA challenge around Earth Day-Easter weekend - April 22-24th.
What’s it take?
3 simple actions and then your ability to do nothing but regenerate and create.
1) sign-in (takes 1 min) so that you can be counted among the 1,008 and more. Use any part of the YEA Energy Regeneration Invite to spread the word (on facebook or newsletter) and on April 21st before Earth Day
Facebook Group: Yoga Energy Activism
2) unplug and tune-in - creating an energy regeneration day of your own design for April 22-24th. On your retreat day, experience a rest from facebook and show solidarity for using our energy wisely.
3) an option to post your experience on the facebook group including what you learned-experienced about yourself, inspiration for changes. Continue with the eco-challenges that you will received every 2 weeks including info about the next Energy Regeneration Day on the Beltane Weekend (May 1st) and more that will continue through Sept. 21st. Stay connected by tuning into YEA (www.globalmala.org) & Global Green’s carbon offsetting efforts (www.globalgreen.org)
Here are some suggestions for your Energy Regeneration Retreat Day
* Committ to 3 hours, 12 hours half-day (sunset to sunrise) 24 hour day
* Turn off and unplug all electronics and appliances (except the refrigerator)
* Take a technology fast - a healthy break from computer, cell phones, tv, games
* Rest, be with lovers, family, friends, read, reflect, create, play, be quiet, be festive
* Use ghee lamps, soy or beeswax candles or solar charged lamps for necessary light
* Create light from natural sources
* Gather with friends and family and celebrate using as little energy as possible to create meals
(Cook the day before or foods not-requiring energy to prepare)
* Go for zero or as little waste as possible by composting and recycling
* Any meals are created with food that has minimal or no packaging and are vegetarian or vegan (which creates the least carbon footprint possible)
* How few times can you flush
* What is your shortest reasonable shower or go greywater.
* Reduce water consumption: flush one less time / cut 2-6 minutes off your shower
* Use a bike or walk for transportation – if a car is necessary, try to reduce your travel to 1 gallon of gas (approx 25 miles) or use carbon off-set
* Replace TV and video games in your family with outdoor or other non-electronic activities
Personal Energy Regeneration:
* Unplugging from social media, computer, cell phone for a few hours to a whole day!
* Deepen all forms of meditation and yoga practice from kirtan to hiking, massage to making love, resting to playing
* Fasting: eating once or twice a day, or juice fast, or fruit + vegetable fast
Now is the time to take responsibility for our inner and outer world so that we can wake-up from the inertia that is preventing positive change and realize the natural gifts of prana that are inherent in the elements of the sun, water, earth, and air that are being depleted and poisoned. We live in an abundance of renewable energy.
Unplug, Tune-in, Recharge. Take Back your Power.
Please sign-up (email privacy use is strict and is only for YEA project with Global Green). Support Global Green through Carbon off-sets. Create a day of energy regeneration and feel the positive ripple effect.
Namaste,
Marne
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Girl gets kicked off of SkyTrain for wearing F-Yoga pin
A SkyTrain passenger was barred from the train for wearing a button with the f-word, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association says.
The BCCLA has filed a policy complaint with the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner after a transit police officer would not let Jean Wharf board because she was wearing a button that said “F—Yoga.”
Wharf, 21, was initially removed after a fare check at Nanaimo SkyTrain station.
But when she bought a ticket and tried to return, the officer would not let her pass unless she removed the button.
“I can understand it if it went against race, creed, gender or sexuality, but it’s just this little tiny pin with a punk slogan,” Wharf said. “It wasn’t doing anybody any [more] harm than somebody who hasn’t had a bath for three days.”
She said she could understand if she was swearing loudly, or if someone had complained.
“Wearing a button doesn’t break the law. Transit’s approach opens it to ridicule,” BCCLA president Robert Holmes said in a news release. “What about books that contain the f-word that people read on the bus? What about clothing or shopping bags from FCUK? What about people who say the f-word while talking in a normal speaking voice to a friend on the bus or SkyTrain?”
Wharf said she wears the pin for its message.
“I wear it because so many people are doing yoga, but very few of them know why,” Wharf told The Sun in an interview.
“Yoga has been so industrialized that people have forgotten its purpose as a beautiful, ancient meditative practice.”
Wharf was wearing the one-inch black and white pin among others on her jacket. She says she uses SkyTrain and buses nearly every day, and that transit is her primary method of transportation. Wharf filed her own complaint with the OPCC, which found that the pin violated a Trans-Link rule against “foul, insulting, abusive or inappropriate language.”
Wharf said the officer pulled her off the train by the arm, which she found inappropriate. Wharf’s complaint was deemed inadmissible because there was no misconduct by the officer, who had the authority to ask her to remove her pin, and when she refused, the officer had the right to remove her, the OPCC said in their ruling.
Read more by going here:http://www.vancouversun.com/news/TransLink+takes+exception+yoga+slight/4573185/story.html
This is an interesting story because I think it’s more about freedom of speech than it is about using the F-Word. The girl talks about how a lot of people are doing yoga, but they don’t know why. Which is a good point. Yoga in the states is mostly used as a way to get in shape and is less about finding enlightenment. I know I was drawn to yoga because of the physical health benefits, but the longer I practiced, the more I realized it was something way more than a way to get fit.
I’m not offended by her pin saying “F-Yoga”. If I were sitting on the tram next to her and saw her pin, I would probably ask her about it. In any case, looks like she won’t be riding that tram for a while…not with the button anyway.
Namaste,
Marne
The BCCLA has filed a policy complaint with the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner after a transit police officer would not let Jean Wharf board because she was wearing a button that said “F—Yoga.”
Wharf, 21, was initially removed after a fare check at Nanaimo SkyTrain station.
But when she bought a ticket and tried to return, the officer would not let her pass unless she removed the button.
“I can understand it if it went against race, creed, gender or sexuality, but it’s just this little tiny pin with a punk slogan,” Wharf said. “It wasn’t doing anybody any [more] harm than somebody who hasn’t had a bath for three days.”
She said she could understand if she was swearing loudly, or if someone had complained.
“Wearing a button doesn’t break the law. Transit’s approach opens it to ridicule,” BCCLA president Robert Holmes said in a news release. “What about books that contain the f-word that people read on the bus? What about clothing or shopping bags from FCUK? What about people who say the f-word while talking in a normal speaking voice to a friend on the bus or SkyTrain?”
Wharf said she wears the pin for its message.
“I wear it because so many people are doing yoga, but very few of them know why,” Wharf told The Sun in an interview.
“Yoga has been so industrialized that people have forgotten its purpose as a beautiful, ancient meditative practice.”
Wharf was wearing the one-inch black and white pin among others on her jacket. She says she uses SkyTrain and buses nearly every day, and that transit is her primary method of transportation. Wharf filed her own complaint with the OPCC, which found that the pin violated a Trans-Link rule against “foul, insulting, abusive or inappropriate language.”
Wharf said the officer pulled her off the train by the arm, which she found inappropriate. Wharf’s complaint was deemed inadmissible because there was no misconduct by the officer, who had the authority to ask her to remove her pin, and when she refused, the officer had the right to remove her, the OPCC said in their ruling.
Read more by going here:http://www.vancouversun.com/news/TransLink+takes+exception+yoga+slight/4573185/story.html
This is an interesting story because I think it’s more about freedom of speech than it is about using the F-Word. The girl talks about how a lot of people are doing yoga, but they don’t know why. Which is a good point. Yoga in the states is mostly used as a way to get in shape and is less about finding enlightenment. I know I was drawn to yoga because of the physical health benefits, but the longer I practiced, the more I realized it was something way more than a way to get fit.
I’m not offended by her pin saying “F-Yoga”. If I were sitting on the tram next to her and saw her pin, I would probably ask her about it. In any case, looks like she won’t be riding that tram for a while…not with the button anyway.
Namaste,
Marne
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