I am so grateful for the help, support, and energy that has gone into this years Yoga For Peace. This year we really want to make a difference with this festival. We are hoping that people will learn or enforce techniques and lifestyles that will manifest more peace of mind, peace towards each other, and peaceful living with the environment. Studies have shown that group meditations cause a shift in consciousness and we are looking forward to affecting the community with 500 people getting together to meditate for peace. You are strongly encouraged to join us for meditation; together we can make a difference.

Living peacefully sounds great, maybe even sounds serene and wonderful. The reality is living peacefully takes work. Maintaining peace of mind, let alone attaining it can take years of effort. Meditation/Yoga is one tool that works to bring about peace of mind. Self study and study of sacred scriptures can be useful too. I attended a concert for peace a few months ago and experienced an incredible state of peace of mind through music. I asked myself what could come along that I would choose to give up this peace. After all, our states of mind are our choice. Sure enough, things came up in my life that I choose to be angry over and had to remind myself and go back to the peace. Like building muscle at the gym, peace comes from repetition of choosing peace and like muscle left unused our peace will wither away too. I love John Lennon’s song Imagine. Imagine all the people choosing to be peaceful.

Peace towards others begins with our own peace of mind. Maintaining peace of mind makes being peaceful towards other much easier. It is tough to be peaceful when we are angry. We get angry for various reasons. We expect certain things to be certain ways, communications go wrong, or good intentions go bad. Peaceful living means giving up the anger, practicing forgiveness, and remembering it is only you that makes you upset.

Living peacefully with the planet can be even tougher then maintaining peace of mind and peaceful relationships. We are born into a structure here in America where profits and convenience far out weigh environmental concerns. Our way of living is backwards in regards to nature and just learning how backwards things are can be disheartening. The efforts that we can make individually can seem futile next to the global problems. Hope and communication are our allies. We must keep hope alive and educate our children, friends, and families on better ways to live, eat, and work. We have the technology to maintain our quality of life here in America and live in harmony with nature. We just all have to want to live peacefully on this planet.

So if your for peace, I hope that you will join us on July 23 from 11am – 6pm at Ford Field in Dearborn.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Jim

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Chris Briney Yoga Workshop: Chris is one of the most highly trained and well-versed yoga instructors in the Metro Detroit area. He has been a dedicated student of yoga since 1997, and has maintained a full-time teaching schedule since 2001. His passion for his practice—to him the wellspring of his teaching—has taken him around the country and to hundreds of hours of continuing and on-going training, with numerous teachers widely regarded as some of the finest in the field today. His past Anusara studies and his current Iyengar Yoga training deeply influence his lively, inspiring, and playful style of teaching. His classes provide explorations in blending meaningful self-expression with precise physical and energetic alignment of the postures to create the optimal conditions for the positive transformation of his students. His stated mission as a teacher is to guide and support people in taking actions that enhance their quality of life and the quality of life in the world around them, while simultaneously challenging them to explore, honor and, ultimately, expand their limitations.

Restorative Yoga Workshop with Tracy : Visiting Song of the Morning begins to reduce your stress within a few minutes of breathing the air and feeling the energy of the land. Let your retreat be even more transformative and healing through Tracy's restorative workshop. Feel stress melt away from deep within while your body and mind open to new possibilities of peace and compassion. This is the perfect way to restore your bodies own energy and immunities. A less rigorous class focusing on more supported, and often passive, postures to create a more restorative and rejuvenating practice.

T’ai Chi and Qi Gong for Health, Peace and Relaxation: Join certified instructor Kaye Thomas-Hogan as you experience and learn these ancient Chinese forms and exercises of “moving meditation”. These gentle movements derived from nature were created to instill balance and inner harmony in the body, mind and spirit to induce better health and a happier lifestyle. Learn about Chi (Qi), what it feels like, how it influences our life, and how to gather and cultivate this healing, life giving energy. You will go home with exercises, a dance-like form and many handouts to help you to continue your own sacred practice.

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Sunday, July 23rd is the second annual Yoga for Peace. Volunteers are needed to make the day run smoothly. Details elsewhere in the newsletter about the event, and talk to Jim if you want to help out that day. Call 734-282-9642 or email jpero@risingsunyoga.com

Thanks for all your help with our volunteer programs.

Namaste,

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