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 …
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.
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.
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.
Meditations from the Mat – Letting Go
Some of you asked if I could type out the reading I shared this week in my classes, where our intention was using our yoga practice to let go. It is from the book Meditations from the Mat. Here it is… “To begin, we let go. We let go of our thoughts, our old scripts, our …
Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu
The mantra that I chose for this week reminds us that we don’t just do our yoga practice for ourselves, but for all beings. This mantra means:May this world be established with a sense of peace, well-being and happiness.It is an invocation for harmony and blessings for all of creation.So the next time you’re on …
Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo
The mantra that I chose for this week is actually used at the beginning of traditional Kundalini yoga practices to tune in to your highest self. It means “Infinite Creative Consciousness, I call upon you. Divine Wisdom Within, I call upon you.” I take this to mean that we all have our own inner wisdom, …
Om Shrim Mahalakshmyai Namah Mantra
Reverence to the power of Sri, the great goddess Lakshmi! This mantra celebrates the power of Sri in the form of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. The word simultaneously means prosperity, elegance, radiant power and sacredness. When you recognize the power of sri within you, it leads to contentment no matter what your circumstances. You’ll feel …
Adi Shakti Mantra for Security, Creativity & Abundance
This mantra invokes the primary Creative Power which is manifest in the feminine. It will help you to be free of personal insecurities which block freedom of action. It is a mantra of devotion to the Kundalini, the Mother of all energies, which is the life force stored at the base of the spine. Call …
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