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Yoga and Environmental Activism
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Swami Nityamuktananda Saraswati, Swami Jaidev Bharati, Swami Veda Bharati
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August 7, 2010
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Macalester Plymouth United Church
1658 Lincoln Ave West, St. Paul
Cost: $25 suggested donation
With the most serious environmental disaster in U.S. history continuing to develop in the waters and on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the perilous relationship between humans and the natural world has never seemed so fragile. While Congress investigates the cause of the oil rig disaster and thousands work to clear oil from both water and land, it may be time to consider a spiritual approach to understanding our relationship with the our natural environment.
The 2010 Himalayan Yoga Meditation Congress, sponsored by Northeast Minneapolis’ The Meditation Center, will explore spiritual responses to environmental challenges as informed by the 5,000-year-old Himalayan Yoga tradition. Through lectures, a discussion panel participants will have the to opportunity to know more deeply and personally the transformative power of inner wisdom and love that has the potential to save our world.
The theme for this year’s congress grew out of Swami Veda’s participation in a conference organized by the Global Peace Initiative of Women that was held concurrently with the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In his opening address at this gathering of activists and spiritual leaders, he said, “Humanity does not face many problems; all the problems are facets of the same, single one. It is the lack of understanding of what human fulfillment is. . . . We would not be taking from the earth 137 percent of what the earth can produce if we found an inner fulfillment through contemplation and meditation.”
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