For Earth Day this year, Yoga Serves tackled a couple projects at Bandemer Park: re-building a washed-out section of trail and pulling and cutting down invasives. Thanks to the big group of volunteers who came out, we get the jobs done quickly and had lots of fun in the process!
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Sorting Hats & Gloves for The Education Project
The Education Project works to ensure Washtenaw County students in homeless and temporary living situations enroll, regularly attend and succeed in school. Every year, they work to supply winter gear for families who don’t have the money for such items or who are moving abruptly and often, so may lose them. Yoga Serves members helped sort a …
Food Gatherers – Rockin’ for the Hungry
A handful of brave Yoga Serves members were ‘freezin’ for a reason’ – to help Food Gatherers collect food and monetary donations at the local Kroger. Yoga Serves works with Food Gatherers year-round to help them in their goal of providing food to those in need in the Ann Arbor area. Rockin’ for the Hungry is Food Gatherers largest …
Check out Flow the Flim
A documentary worth watching, especially if you are a bottled water drinker who wants to know more about where the water you drink actually comes from. There is an interesting piece about the Nestle Corp, and how they have been taking groundwater from right here in Michigan, for free, to bottle and sell for billions …
Helping our Local Food Bank – Food Gatherers
Several times throughout the year Yoga Serves members help out at the warehouse doing various tasks such as sorting cans, restocking the pantry, shelving products, salvaging products, repackaging bulk foods, packing food boxes, cleaning out coolers, and sorting produce.
The Inn at The Rustic Gate – Fall Yoga Retreat 2011
Highlights – Yin, Energy Flow, Ashtanga and Partner Yoga classes; massages; an evening bonfire; a cougar spotting; hiking and biking trails through the woods; and gourmet, locally-sourced, vegetarian meals “I went on the retreat at the end of my first year of yoga, and left with a renewed enthusiasm for my practice and feeling more connected to The …
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National Trails Day – Stewardship Workday
National Trails Day is a nationwide event celebrating local trails and assisting with their restoration, creation and maintenance. At Barton Park on a hot 90 degree spring day, Yoga Serves members trimmed back overgrowth and spread wood-chips to help keep the trails accessible.
Yoga Music Playlists – Week of 6/20/11
Several people mentioned how much they loved the mix of chants I used in my Hatha classes this week. They are some of my favorites. Here they are: Aad Guray – Deva Premal – Dakshina Jap Man Sat Nam – Snatam Kaur – Anand Ishq’allah – Miten – Songs for the Inner Lover People of …
Yoga Music – Week of 6/13/11
Some of you asked if I was playing James Taylor in class this week. Actually, it was music by Alanis Morrissette’s brother, Wade Imre Morrisette. I have two of his albums that I use for yoga: Sargam Scales of Music and Strong as Diamonds. Check them out!
Earth Day Tree Planting Project 2011
Each year Yoga Serves volunteers at an Ann Arbor park for Earth Day. This year our volunteers helped neighbors of Huron Highlands Park in Ann Arbor plant a native garden in their neighborhood park.