All posts filed under: Yoga Stories
Stretching feminist leadership
iHeal in my community
Yoga Fusion @ BOLD: Dhaka
Yoga Heals War @ Bali Spirit Festival
Meditating on Peace Revolution
Yoga for Peace
My first yoga class was in December 2009 and since the first yoga class I have done yoga ever since then. After […] I felt like a very big burden has been removed from my body and, you know, kept down after doing the first yoga class. […] It’s the feeling that I felt. And it’s like I became someone else. I was away of my mind, I got away of my body, I got […]
Getting the Global Yoga Community On-board
Thanks to a crowd-funding effort, Yoga Fusion had the opportunity to reach out to the Global Yoga Community supporting the expansion of the benefits of yoga to conflict areas. Given the volatility of the funding mechanisms of aid funds and development projects, Yoga Fusion is seeking support from the Global Yoga Community to create a connection, a purpose, and synergies between yoga communities around the world. Who better than those who experienced personally the benefits […]
Sensitizing the Yoga Community
To sensitize the yoga community within the private sector, Yoga Fusion established a private sector partnership with Wearessential, a yoga wear brand. In July 2014, Yoga Fusion contributed a YOGA PERFORMANCE to support a special sale of Wearessential for Oxfam Italia sustaining ‘resilience’ within the framework of Oxfam Strategic Plan, 2013-2019: The Power of People Against Poverty. GOAL 3: SAVING LIVES, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE RESILIENCE: By 2019 resilience to disasters and conflict is strengthened in high risk countries, […]
Yoga in the West Bank
Originally posted on <a href="http://andrealeber.com/2013/09/22/yoga-in-the-west-bank">Yoga & Joyful Living</a>: <br />What would you do, living in an unstable country, your daily routine marked by either lack of food and resources, lack of security, an ongoing conflict about control of land – or even all of the above? These Palestinian women have turned their gaze inwards, towards the only stability they know they can rely on. They do yoga to connect to what lies deep within, to cope with…