One/Changemaking one change at a time

I both practice and teach yoga and I have been excited about the increasing awareness within the yoga community of our connection to this earth as it specifically relates to our need to take care of the environment. In the May 2006 issue of Yoga Journal, Magdalena Winter in talking with Laura Cornell, took a look at how “practicing ahimsa, or nonviolence, to the earth is central to the teachings of yoga”. Cornell founded Green Yoga Association (GYA)for the purpose of “foster[ing] ecological consciousness, reverence, and action in the yoga community”. Right now GYA is working on the Green Studios Pilot Program which “provides information on green methods of furnishing and marketing studios”. There has already been an influx of positive feedback for the program and a growing list of yogis that are interested in making these environmentally beneficial changes to their studios.

Visit the link above to find out more on how you can get your yoga studio involved in the Green Studios Pilot Program. Namaste fellow yogis.

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