Spread the word. Announce National Yoga Month 09.2009 on your blog, newsletter and website

April 15, 2009

September is National Yoga Month.

Help us spread the word by announcing our awareness campaign on your website, newsletter or blog. 

See text, banners and flyers at http://www.yogamonth.org/2009/2009_marketing_materials.php.

Thanks.

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Get involved in Yoga Month 09.2009 - a grassroots campaign to inspire a healthy lifestyle

March 29, 2009
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There are many ways to get involved:

  1. Yoga Studios: Add a Yoga Month event
    Yoga studios, teachers, individuals and event planners: Create your own Yoga Month event such as a Yoga Health Festival, Global Mala, concert, yoga class, workshop, peace party or community class anytime during September 2009.

  2. Yoga Teachers: Donate a Yoga Class
    Yoga teachers: Designate one (or more) of your yoga classes as a National Yoga Month Awareness Class and contribute the proceeds to our cause. Funds will go towards the National Awareness Campaign and yoga health education.
  3. Join the Yoga Month Card New Student Program
    Yoga studios and teachers: Take part in the Yoga Month Card New Student outreach Program and tap into our media connections and national network to bring new clientele right to your doorstep.
  4. Be our City Coordinator
    Yoga Month is a grassroots movement and our volunteer ambassadors are a crucial part of the campaign. Be our City Coordinator to help spread the word, write articles, raise funds and take initiative to inspire your community.
  5. Become a Sponsor or Media Partner
  6. Join our Email List and be a part of the Yoga Month Community.

By participating in the Yoga Awareness Month in the US or globally, yoga studios, teachers, organizations and organizers may use the Yoga Month name, promotional materials and other resources made available by the Yoga Health Foundation.

Please let us know how we can help to coordinate Yoga Month in your community and beyond.

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Yoga is the answer! Prevention is the Health Care System of the Future

I am just flying back from Washington DC from the Integrative Medicine Summit which was organized by the Institute of Health, several Integrative Medicine departments at Duke, Harvard and other Universities supported and financed by the Bravewell Collaborative (philanthropists).

This has been an amazing experience. 600 Politicians, Senators, National Institute of Health, IOM, University Professors, Doctors, Naturopaths, TCM, Homeopaths and other practitioners coming together to talk about how our Nation’s health care system can be improved.

Some highlights are:

-          Major push in US towards an Integrative Medicine model

-          Understanding that health care needs to change, is not affordable anymore.

-          All parties (business, health insurance, health professions, patients) seem to agree.

-          President Obama has promised to reform health care with a major focus on prevention

-          Dean Ornish was by far the best speaker (before he had to rush to the Capitol for a Senate hearing to testify about how health care can be improved). His points was that he and many other renowned researchers have done plenty of high quality studies on how heart disease, diabetes, cancer can be reversed up to 70% by lifestyle changes (biopsychosocial, for example plant based diet, yoga, meditation) and that it is time to put this knowledge into action.

-          Prevention on a national scale from kids to adults is necessary and will increase quality of life and health care costs.

-          Several discussions were about yoga and how yoga incorporates many of the health benefits we all seek: physical fitness and flexibility, deep breathing, body mind relaxation, mindfulness.

National Yoga Month will play a vital part in the process of transforming health care from a disease management system to a health and prevention health care model.

Thanks for being a living example by practicing yoga and living a healthy lifestyle.

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Yoga Month Volunteer Meetings–Info

June 25, 2008

Volunteer Gatherings - Please RSVP

New York City - June 21 at 4pm view invite
Moonheart Center, 59 W 19th # 3A2 e (Questions & RSVP: Email Laura)

San Diego - June 28 at 2pm view invite
Smartcorner Rooftop, 1080 Park Blvd.e (Questions & RSVP: Email Laura) 

Ft. Lauderdale/Miami - June 28 at 2pm 
I love Yoga Headquarters, 99 N.W. 166th Str. Miami (1 block east of 95/turnpike behind 7/11)
Need to pick up flyers earlier? Please call 305-919-0314 or Suzanne at 954-873-8643

Los Angeles - June 29 at 3.30pm view invite
Tara Home, 245 Main Street, Venice (Questions & RSVP: Email Laura)

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