Green Yoga Association
July 6th, 2006 by Mollie
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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@onechange
July 6th, 2006 at 8:39 am
Myself and my wife love the idea of learning Yoga, but have never done anything about it yet. I don’t suppose your yoga teachings are on-line? It is so hard to find a good teacher. We already like how you think, so trusting that, have you thought of teaching on-line to those of us who have limited time to search out worthy yoga exercises. and anyway books in our humble opinion are so impersonal.
July 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
that sounds pretty cool. Keep us up to date.
July 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I did a little yoga on my deck overlooking Lake Michigan yesterday. The best. I find it very nice to do outside in the fresh air. I like thinking that my feet have roots that go down into the earth.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:39 am
Barbie, that sounds so wonderful. I can’t wait to join you!!!!