Tuesday, April 25, 2023
WIW and Whew! Fallout Of Alabama's Mass Shooting
I was called to stand as a Woman in White- WIW on Saturday April 22nd.
The call came A Week after our area was devastated by the news that 4 people were shot and killed and 30 others shot and wounded in a small Alabama town called Dadeville. Dadeville is not far away, people from the entire area including Tuskegee and nearby Opelika were in attendance and the next punch was hard and swift as more than one of the accused gunmen was from Tuskegee.
I was called to stand in solidarity with our local Councilwoman , (Norma Jackson City of Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama)A local Womens group and other Community Members and Leaders.
I was glad to be called because I was still in a frozen shocky sort of space where I knew I needed to do something, say something-- I just hadn't quite gotten past the horror and the crying to figure out what.
I was dressed in my white that day but delayed by an urgent call regarding one of my clients and missed the press conference. I decided to take a picture and figure out how to stand up and show up in response to Councilwoman Jackson's call to action for us to Heal and Assist in the legnthy recovery ahead of us in both communities.
She pointed out that several of the accused were children, not yet 18 , our children.
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As a Youth Yoga teacher and Green Educator not to mention mother of 7{Automatically aquainting me with a number of youth of various ages in public school, private school and homeschool } in the area--I knew and felt this profoundly. I was glad she reminded us, reminded the world, however because the responsibility for the state of mind and health of our children rests squarely on the shoulders of the adults in any community. We are inevitably asking ourselves, How did we fail them? How Did we miss this and most importantly How do we help now?
The call to the women in my community to wear white and show up in solidarity , was a call to all people who are asking themselves these questions. Its not about a color or a uniform look-- its about a willingness to serve, to heal, to do what is necessary in a community with many needs at this moment and to focus on getting the job done, shoulder to shoulder , putting other differences aside. I have served as a Woman in White in the past with some of these women and many others: Offering healing services to families under financial duress, supporting the mothers of victims of violence and creating youth programs to help guide and empower our youth. I am honored to do so again and I thank the Councilwoman and the Sisters Circle for issuing the call.
I offer my sincere condolences to all of the victims and their families and communities.
In addition I offer my Stress Management Services and any other resources at my disposal as A Wellness Organization/Community Health and Wellness TMC and a part of The Shanti Villa Institute Clinic which specializes in natural alternative health and Stress Management as well as Environmental Solutions. Many of our services are online and in person and group services can be arranged by asppointment. I have also recently completed my training as A Health Navigator- We provide informations and resources to help prevent infection or reinfection of Covid and other viruses as well as guidelnes and information on general health and management of chronic diseases.
I have had clients who say that the simple techniques we teach has helped them through grief and trauma immensley! I am also calling on some of our Youth to form peer support circles as they have in the past. I stand ready to help others in this way as well as other ways I am called upon.
Contact me by phone or text:
334-226-0777 (you may recieve a response from a different number)
contact form:
mamayogi.weebly.com
social media
FB @belessstressedwellness
Community Health and Wellness Tuskegee Macon County
or Instagram @mamayogiofearth or @tradoula
Other Resources
Macon County Health Navigators QUestions or assistance call:
334-245-9647
Mental Heallth Crisis Line Text:
RESTORE to 741741 to chat with a trained proffessional
This Calender lists Food Giveaways and Pantries in the area as well as local events.
https://www.maconprogress.net/macon-calendar.html
Many of my free resources are offered through email please place Free Help in the subject line or message that to me along with your email address to mamayogionline@gmail.com to be added to the list or check the comments on this post and I will add what I can here.
Please check comments for additional resources.
Friday, May 29, 2020
A Non Violence message from a Yoga Master
Non Violence
Those elite that reside at the top of the world society play the race card all the time. Divide and conquer mankind Non-Violence is your power
Refusing to inflict pain on any living thing is non-violence whether it is through thought, word or deed.
If the mind is full of hatred it will manifest in acts of violence. Violence in thought precedes violence in action. The load of anxiety and tension has to be eliminated. Unless the tendency towards disturbance is reduced no true spiritual practice can begin.
When we attempt to tackle the cruder aspect of these mental attitudes the subtler aspects begin to dawn on us. We then have to direct our efforts towards eliminating the subtler aspects. There is an underlying unity of life and non violence in us an attitude of love towards all. We first recognize the unity of life and then pattern ourselves accordingly, “Love Thy Neighbor as thyself”.
People resort to violence because they think this will bring quick results, this an expression of disharmony between mind and intellect. Violence brings in many calamities which the clouded intellect has never thought of. If we reduce the urge to seek happiness through the gratification of more and more desires the tendency towards violence would be curbed. In these times if we are to survive this should be practice on a larger scale.
Practice of non-violence destroys jealousy. Most people who have risen high in worldly scales are steeped in jealousy. They are far away from the “Kingdom of heaven within you”
“Love thy neighbor with all thy heart”, once you start this practice our intellect is purified. Our power of discernment between right and wrong gets sharpened. This strengthens our efforts to do the right thing in any circumstances.
“Love thy neighbor as thy self is compassion and mercy personified. He who practices this emanates holy vibrations which catch up with others. He becomes attune to all life. He spreads and instills love in others. Those who come near him drop their fangs of venom and become enamored within his aura. Any person that approaches him with evil intent is calm down and become harmless. This brief encounter leaves an inedible mark on the visitor and he is uplifted. Love is the force that binds all life and when one is imbued with love his consciousness become attuned to all life. With the practice of ahimsa one can delve deep into the mystery of life then bliss reigns supreme. Even a beast of prey sheds its ferociousness in the presence of person fully committed to “love thy neighbor as thy self”
“This is peace which passeth understanding”
If the mind is full of hatred it will manifest in acts of violence. Violence in thought precedes violence in action. The load of anxiety and tension has to be eliminated. Unless the tendency towards disturbance is reduced no true spiritual practice can begin.
When we attempt to tackle the cruder aspect of these mental attitudes the subtler aspects begin to dawn on us. We then have to direct our efforts towards eliminating the subtler aspects. There is an underlying unity of life and non violence in us an attitude of love towards all. We first recognize the unity of life and then pattern ourselves accordingly, “Love Thy Neighbor as thyself”.
People resort to violence because they think this will bring quick results, this an expression of disharmony between mind and intellect. Violence brings in many calamities which the clouded intellect has never thought of. If we reduce the urge to seek happiness through the gratification of more and more desires the tendency towards violence would be curbed. In these times if we are to survive this should be practice on a larger scale.
Practice of non-violence destroys jealousy. Most people who have risen high in worldly scales are steeped in jealousy. They are far away from the “Kingdom of heaven within you”
“Love thy neighbor with all thy heart”, once you start this practice our intellect is purified. Our power of discernment between right and wrong gets sharpened. This strengthens our efforts to do the right thing in any circumstances.
“Love thy neighbor as thy self is compassion and mercy personified. He who practices this emanates holy vibrations which catch up with others. He becomes attune to all life. He spreads and instills love in others. Those who come near him drop their fangs of venom and become enamored within his aura. Any person that approaches him with evil intent is calm down and become harmless. This brief encounter leaves an inedible mark on the visitor and he is uplifted. Love is the force that binds all life and when one is imbued with love his consciousness become attuned to all life. With the practice of ahimsa one can delve deep into the mystery of life then bliss reigns supreme. Even a beast of prey sheds its ferociousness in the presence of person fully committed to “love thy neighbor as thy self”
“This is peace which passeth understanding”
Sri Charles Davis
July 29th 2015
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Mama Yogi Lovestyle: A Trans-formative Experience
In Consultation with a dear friend and Visionary I was asked for More. I looked over my programs and found what I wanted to gift to her incomplete so I began the process of the Creation of More. In the Year of Defining More and by More I mean additional Healing Programs to the one she had completed-- a full set of Ayurvedic Healing Sessions that led to stress management solutions,better health, breakthroughs and Insights for her and now... she wanted More.
This idea resonated because she was not the first to ask for it. After Two months of daily interaction and twice weekly sessions over the phone and internet (in person if you are close enough) most of my Clients requested more, they didn't want the interactions to end and had more questions than I could answer in a closing session.
This was good but More needed to be designed. My ideal of more would be to have the Client move to dormitory quarters on my farm The Triple H or at Shanti Villa Farm and live their newly claimed Life and Lovestyle--eating food they helped grow from the earth without chemicals, doing healing fires several times a day, making meditating on a daily schedule a way of life and so much more!
How do I package that? I wondered.
A Consultation with the vibrant Coach Lisa Marie Rosatti provided a breakthrough I was finally able to receive. My Mentor Sri Charles Davis had been telling me for years in different ways and I couldn't see it. With them as my Doulas and that wonderful Visionary Sister Mama Friend : The Multi talented Artist Mishana giving me the name I finally Birthed and Named 'More':
Mama Yogi Lovestyle: Transfigure Your Life with Love and Fire
My lifestyle began an incredible transformation the day I took the leap into full time study of a healing Ayurvedic way of living. I had a simple instruction: Add the Fire to whatever you do. So I did. I added it to my Spiritual Studies and ways, I added it to my healing, I added it to my Sisterhood Studies and Writings and I added it to my Mommying of my 7 beautiful and blessed Lights. I added it to my Life and as will happen when you 'Just Add Fire' Everything blew up! In a good way, I was able to do things I'd never imagined, publishing my book The Passion of My Spirit under my own label(2015 GreenWellInk) finally, and share my stories about Earth and Healing with audiences of The Young and young at heart, Speaking at Libraries and Schools , Presenting environmental solutions to Political and Organization leaders and as my children grew watching in amazement as they became a second generation of young Environmentalists, Parents, Teachers and Leaders.
Now as I live on my own farm [The Triple H's stand for Hunter Homa Healing (Homa means healing with fire)] It is time to teach. For it will take many doing this in their own way to transform our planet from a toxic place to a healing one again.
Mama Yogi Lovestyle Events and Programs will embrace a full spectrum of experiences and lessons to help you become one who Loves Yourself, Each Other and Your Planet with every Action in your life. It is designed to help you become one who Lives your life on Purpose and Loves the life you live.
Stay tuned for Invites to Events, Groups and Initiatives including
Grass Roots Action Teams
The Empress Evolution
Live Presentations
Camping Out Loud
Raw Living Rotational Diet
and
Mama Yogi Surviving With Abundant Grace(SWAG)
as well as Community Health and Wellness International Healing Mission Initiatives
and Community Health classes and healing events including basic Ayurvedic Stress Therapy Sessions for the effective management of stress in your life.
I'm claiming being a #techsavage (opposite of tech savvy but getting it done!) so bear with me as I explore my social media options!The best way to stay updated is through my blogs and being on the email list: mamayogionline@gmail.com
I have no intention of letting internet grimlins as Shiloh Sophia calls them stop me from putting out my message!
I look forward to getting to know love and help you on the Journey of 'More'.
Much Love! Live Happy !Live Healthy Live Green!
Mama Yogi
https://greenwellink.blogspot.
https://momayogi.blogspot.com/
http://communityhealthtmc.blogspot.com/
https://deskgram.co/mamayogiofearth
https://twitter.com/asabihunter
This idea resonated because she was not the first to ask for it. After Two months of daily interaction and twice weekly sessions over the phone and internet (in person if you are close enough) most of my Clients requested more, they didn't want the interactions to end and had more questions than I could answer in a closing session.
This was good but More needed to be designed. My ideal of more would be to have the Client move to dormitory quarters on my farm The Triple H or at Shanti Villa Farm and live their newly claimed Life and Lovestyle--eating food they helped grow from the earth without chemicals, doing healing fires several times a day, making meditating on a daily schedule a way of life and so much more!
How do I package that? I wondered.
A Consultation with the vibrant Coach Lisa Marie Rosatti provided a breakthrough I was finally able to receive. My Mentor Sri Charles Davis had been telling me for years in different ways and I couldn't see it. With them as my Doulas and that wonderful Visionary Sister Mama Friend : The Multi talented Artist Mishana giving me the name I finally Birthed and Named 'More':
Mama Yogi Lovestyle: Transfigure Your Life with Love and Fire
My lifestyle began an incredible transformation the day I took the leap into full time study of a healing Ayurvedic way of living. I had a simple instruction: Add the Fire to whatever you do. So I did. I added it to my Spiritual Studies and ways, I added it to my healing, I added it to my Sisterhood Studies and Writings and I added it to my Mommying of my 7 beautiful and blessed Lights. I added it to my Life and as will happen when you 'Just Add Fire' Everything blew up! In a good way, I was able to do things I'd never imagined, publishing my book The Passion of My Spirit under my own label(2015 GreenWellInk) finally, and share my stories about Earth and Healing with audiences of The Young and young at heart, Speaking at Libraries and Schools , Presenting environmental solutions to Political and Organization leaders and as my children grew watching in amazement as they became a second generation of young Environmentalists, Parents, Teachers and Leaders.
Now as I live on my own farm [The Triple H's stand for Hunter Homa Healing (Homa means healing with fire)] It is time to teach. For it will take many doing this in their own way to transform our planet from a toxic place to a healing one again.
Mama Yogi Lovestyle Events and Programs will embrace a full spectrum of experiences and lessons to help you become one who Loves Yourself, Each Other and Your Planet with every Action in your life. It is designed to help you become one who Lives your life on Purpose and Loves the life you live.
Stay tuned for Invites to Events, Groups and Initiatives including
Grass Roots Action Teams
The Empress Evolution
Live Presentations
Camping Out Loud
Raw Living Rotational Diet
and
Mama Yogi Surviving With Abundant Grace(SWAG)
as well as Community Health and Wellness International Healing Mission Initiatives
and Community Health classes and healing events including basic Ayurvedic Stress Therapy Sessions for the effective management of stress in your life.
I'm claiming being a #techsavage (opposite of tech savvy but getting it done!) so bear with me as I explore my social media options!The best way to stay updated is through my blogs and being on the email list: mamayogionline@gmail.com
I have no intention of letting internet grimlins as Shiloh Sophia calls them stop me from putting out my message!
I look forward to getting to know love and help you on the Journey of 'More'.
Much Love! Live Happy !Live Healthy Live Green!
Mama Yogi
https://greenwellink.blogspot.
https://momayogi.blogspot.com/
http://communityhealthtmc.blogspot.com/
https://deskgram.co/mamayogiofearth
https://twitter.com/asabihunter
Friday, June 3, 2016
Surviving with Grace ; climate change and what you can do about it
Climate Change and What you can do about it Part 1
During the years I wrote for The Shanti Sun Magazine as a climate change (then known as global warming) reporter, I had one feverishly driven goal: To inform people of the iminent danger of climate change conditions. As the the conditions started to rapidly deteriorate and the political games continued to be played my feverish investigations and reporting slowed to a more steady roll. They didn't slow because the environmental conditions slowed, no they slowed because I had an epiphany and experienced a paradigm shift. The first part of the epiphany was Everybody is not going to survive this. The second part was-- those who do will Survive by Grace and Grace alone.
I pulled back from my urgent reporting to allow others who had finally gotten the memo to report the latest disasters and to focus on how to address the Survivors of climate change shifts and what exactly we would need to do to repair our world and prevent future disasters.
It will take no less than a global paradigm shift that will change the way we relate to our planet forever.
I ask for continued Grace and guidance from my Lord and all of His wonderful and varied names as I attempt to help bring light and comprehension to the cause of human survival in climate change.
I will start at the solution. It is known as The Solution to Polution and it is practiced worldwide by people in every country and of every faith known to man. I arrived at this solution through begging for guidance and a dream (for lack of a better term) of the offerings my Indigenous ancestors made to the planet having taken on a new more literal form..The thought crystalized within me that there was something I needed to give, to return to Mother Earth, she was suffering from a lack, from depletion. In the dream I heard " She has given to you now you must give to her." so I set out on a mission to learn what I could give to Mother Earth that would help replinish her.
Mind you all of this was long before I was an Environmentalist Apprentice. I was moving on faith and vision alone.. And I was led to a school of alternatives that taught The Solution to Pollution.
When I first arrived at the school SVI, as an attendee of an Earth Day Festival, I couldn't have told you that Pollution was the problem of the Earth and the root of so many of our problems.in the earth.
After attending several talks and enrolling in classes to become an Ayurvedic Stress Management Therapist I learned that pollution is the basis of most of Earths problems and a scientific solution existed that had been around for thousands of years..
The translation of the term Agnihotra is literally fire in a pyramid or fire in the middle. The way I like to define it is as a Vedic Air Purification System, or the process of air purification using the agency of fire.
One of the first and most initially compelling things I heard about this system is that it was used in India to Iradicate Air Pollutants in Kitchens, that made sense to me, What kind of bacteria can live in hot, burning air I thought.
It made even more sense as I became more aquainted with the facts. We live in a bubble, our buble is finite, that is how we are able to fill it with pollutants that compound on one another to create visible pollution like smog. This pollution interferes with the natural function of the planet which needs to 'breathe' in a manner of speaking like every other living thing within it. Our constant pollution has messed up the breathing apparatus of the earth, That's the bad news. The good news is , if we made the mess, we should be able to clean it up. What alters anything it comes into contact with? Fire! It turns water to steam, earth to clay and solids to carbon. At a certain temperature and velocity it also consumes and creates a vortex that sucks things in right? Enter a geometric shape designed to expand whatever energy is produced within it (a pyramid) make that out of the healing and absorbing metal of copper and you have the basis of Agnihotra. The heat and product of the combination of ingredients work on two levels to eradicate pollution. One is the heat itself and two is the organic chemical mix created by the ingredients and pushed up and out by the heat that literally zaps everything it comes into contact with. Unnatural elements are neutralized, natural elements are purified and whats left is literally the most pure air on earth.
In this Pure Air, healing happens, of people animals, plants everything on earth and the planet's breathing apparatus itself.
If people all over the world are doing this , you may ask, why isn't pollution eradicated, why isn't the problem solved? The simple answer is there's more of them than there are of us. In my teaching of the concept of Camping Out Loud--a system of living waste free with little or no carbon foot print I implore people to clean up their own mess and leave it better than you found it. Basic camping rules, The same can apply to our atmosphere, if each person cleaned up their own mess by practicing Vedic Air Purification combined with a lowered carbon footprint maybe the problem would be solved . That is not the case however and with only one in ever 10,00 people or so ( there is no official poll) that means there are 10 to one odds of polluters against pollution cleaners.
Where is the scientific community on this? Depends on where you live in the world. Indian scientists have loads of data and are studying Agnihotra farms (Ayurvedic Farming) in their area and their remarkable results. Germany has a clue but is doing a pretty good job of keeping their research under wraps, America just launched an intense study of Bio Char which looks at the positive and redemptive impact of burnt cow dung on plants (sound familiar?) but a coalition of scientists studying the effects of this practice on climate change is sadly missing from the radar of the west.
Mr President Could you please assign this job to the best scientists in our country?
Like much of naturapathic medicine and governmental change We the People must step up and speak up to force our elected officials to take this solution seriously.
In 2013 Georgia and Alabama awarded the Heal The Atmosphere Association a document of appreciation for consistent work with agnihotra to Heal The Atmosphere for the past 40 years. That marked the first time this environmental practice received any kind of acknowledgement from the government. We walked 1300 miles to get that recognition and now with information about Agnihotra splattered all over the internet , I believe higher numbers of practitioners and teachers will truly affect change.
(Go here for some of the limited media coverage our Respect! walk for the environment attracted.
http://lawattstimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1077:black-woman-who-walked-for-peace-now-walking-for-the-environment&catid=11&Itemid=126)
If you are reading this you are hereby put on notice that your number has been called. Please by all means do your own research, there are links below and more to follow. I've explained what I do to heal the earth in the most elementary terms I could, there are others who do a better and more technical job of it. Please listen to them, and learn from them. Please also bring anything else that seems to you as effective as Vedic Air Purification(Agnihotra/ Homatherapy) to the table for us all to consider and practice. For your sake and your children's sake be a survivor! And for Heavens sake Survive with Abundant Grace.
http://www.shantivillainstitute.com/programs.html
http://www.vishwafoundation-usa.com/
The technological miracle of Agnihotra https://www.joomag.com/magazine/mag/0931468001410982618?feature=archive
facebook.com/communityhealthandwellnesstuskegeemaconcounty
During the years I wrote for The Shanti Sun Magazine as a climate change (then known as global warming) reporter, I had one feverishly driven goal: To inform people of the iminent danger of climate change conditions. As the the conditions started to rapidly deteriorate and the political games continued to be played my feverish investigations and reporting slowed to a more steady roll. They didn't slow because the environmental conditions slowed, no they slowed because I had an epiphany and experienced a paradigm shift. The first part of the epiphany was Everybody is not going to survive this. The second part was-- those who do will Survive by Grace and Grace alone.
I pulled back from my urgent reporting to allow others who had finally gotten the memo to report the latest disasters and to focus on how to address the Survivors of climate change shifts and what exactly we would need to do to repair our world and prevent future disasters.
It will take no less than a global paradigm shift that will change the way we relate to our planet forever.
I ask for continued Grace and guidance from my Lord and all of His wonderful and varied names as I attempt to help bring light and comprehension to the cause of human survival in climate change.
I will start at the solution. It is known as The Solution to Polution and it is practiced worldwide by people in every country and of every faith known to man. I arrived at this solution through begging for guidance and a dream (for lack of a better term) of the offerings my Indigenous ancestors made to the planet having taken on a new more literal form..The thought crystalized within me that there was something I needed to give, to return to Mother Earth, she was suffering from a lack, from depletion. In the dream I heard " She has given to you now you must give to her." so I set out on a mission to learn what I could give to Mother Earth that would help replinish her.
Mind you all of this was long before I was an Environmentalist Apprentice. I was moving on faith and vision alone.. And I was led to a school of alternatives that taught The Solution to Pollution.
When I first arrived at the school SVI, as an attendee of an Earth Day Festival, I couldn't have told you that Pollution was the problem of the Earth and the root of so many of our problems.in the earth.
After attending several talks and enrolling in classes to become an Ayurvedic Stress Management Therapist I learned that pollution is the basis of most of Earths problems and a scientific solution existed that had been around for thousands of years..
The translation of the term Agnihotra is literally fire in a pyramid or fire in the middle. The way I like to define it is as a Vedic Air Purification System, or the process of air purification using the agency of fire.
One of the first and most initially compelling things I heard about this system is that it was used in India to Iradicate Air Pollutants in Kitchens, that made sense to me, What kind of bacteria can live in hot, burning air I thought.
It made even more sense as I became more aquainted with the facts. We live in a bubble, our buble is finite, that is how we are able to fill it with pollutants that compound on one another to create visible pollution like smog. This pollution interferes with the natural function of the planet which needs to 'breathe' in a manner of speaking like every other living thing within it. Our constant pollution has messed up the breathing apparatus of the earth, That's the bad news. The good news is , if we made the mess, we should be able to clean it up. What alters anything it comes into contact with? Fire! It turns water to steam, earth to clay and solids to carbon. At a certain temperature and velocity it also consumes and creates a vortex that sucks things in right? Enter a geometric shape designed to expand whatever energy is produced within it (a pyramid) make that out of the healing and absorbing metal of copper and you have the basis of Agnihotra. The heat and product of the combination of ingredients work on two levels to eradicate pollution. One is the heat itself and two is the organic chemical mix created by the ingredients and pushed up and out by the heat that literally zaps everything it comes into contact with. Unnatural elements are neutralized, natural elements are purified and whats left is literally the most pure air on earth.
In this Pure Air, healing happens, of people animals, plants everything on earth and the planet's breathing apparatus itself.
If people all over the world are doing this , you may ask, why isn't pollution eradicated, why isn't the problem solved? The simple answer is there's more of them than there are of us. In my teaching of the concept of Camping Out Loud--a system of living waste free with little or no carbon foot print I implore people to clean up their own mess and leave it better than you found it. Basic camping rules, The same can apply to our atmosphere, if each person cleaned up their own mess by practicing Vedic Air Purification combined with a lowered carbon footprint maybe the problem would be solved . That is not the case however and with only one in ever 10,00 people or so ( there is no official poll) that means there are 10 to one odds of polluters against pollution cleaners.
Where is the scientific community on this? Depends on where you live in the world. Indian scientists have loads of data and are studying Agnihotra farms (Ayurvedic Farming) in their area and their remarkable results. Germany has a clue but is doing a pretty good job of keeping their research under wraps, America just launched an intense study of Bio Char which looks at the positive and redemptive impact of burnt cow dung on plants (sound familiar?) but a coalition of scientists studying the effects of this practice on climate change is sadly missing from the radar of the west.
Mr President Could you please assign this job to the best scientists in our country?
Like much of naturapathic medicine and governmental change We the People must step up and speak up to force our elected officials to take this solution seriously.
In 2013 Georgia and Alabama awarded the Heal The Atmosphere Association a document of appreciation for consistent work with agnihotra to Heal The Atmosphere for the past 40 years. That marked the first time this environmental practice received any kind of acknowledgement from the government. We walked 1300 miles to get that recognition and now with information about Agnihotra splattered all over the internet , I believe higher numbers of practitioners and teachers will truly affect change.
(Go here for some of the limited media coverage our Respect! walk for the environment attracted.
http://lawattstimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1077:black-woman-who-walked-for-peace-now-walking-for-the-environment&catid=11&Itemid=126)
If you are reading this you are hereby put on notice that your number has been called. Please by all means do your own research, there are links below and more to follow. I've explained what I do to heal the earth in the most elementary terms I could, there are others who do a better and more technical job of it. Please listen to them, and learn from them. Please also bring anything else that seems to you as effective as Vedic Air Purification(Agnihotra/ Homatherapy) to the table for us all to consider and practice. For your sake and your children's sake be a survivor! And for Heavens sake Survive with Abundant Grace.
http://www.shantivillainstitute.com/programs.html
http://www.vishwafoundation-usa.com/
The technological miracle of Agnihotra https://www.joomag.com/magazine/mag/0931468001410982618?feature=archive
facebook.com/communityhealthandwellnesstuskegeemaconcounty
A Portrait Not a Melting Pot
I've always hated the term 'America is a melting pot'. A melting pot implies that all of the elements of whats'Melted" have faded into obscurity, blended in beyond recognition and become one bland and endless color.
The salad bowl analogy is only slightly better. A tossed salad is several pieces carelessly thrown together, lighter pieces on top and heavier more dense one sinking unseen to the bottom, all of it drowned in a dressing so strong the individual flavors are often lost.
The ideal of our country was not either of these things but rather a skillful portrait, in which colors are artfully blended to capture their best qualities and placed beside other colors that allow them to be showcased at their most spectacular. Together this work of art was to hold the highest principles known to mankind and be so breathtakingly beautiful,that the whole world would celebrate its Maker and its exquisite function. Ideas that high don't occur by 'coincidence'.
And then... Life happened. Ego, Greed and misplaced ambition took over and our country has begun to resemble a blood bath more than anything else.
It is sad that there are so many layers of corruption. It is wonderful that there are those of us coming together to try and reclaim what is true, best and beautiful in our original intent.
Equality, Justice, Peace these are things that resonate with the spirit and soul.
Every race of people knows we need these things to live, The question becomes, how do we bridge the gap between races so that each can see that the other is equally deserving of these principles?
As a yoga teacher it is my obligation to teach all and any who seek what I have to give.
It is my experience that between the two major races at conflict in my country the stand I take on race is perceived from two major angles.
Black People tend to think by trying to teach love and peace to everyone I am taking a low road to avoid conflict and not really speaking out about the 'real' issues of institutionalized racism and inequality. While white people tend to think I am 'safe' a loving soul who sees no color and will not judge them based on the actions of their ancestors , friends, relatives or neighbors.
Perception is key. Neither are ever prepared for what I actually believe and have to say.
There are much bigger issues on the table than your race. There is a game of life and death being played that will wipe out significant numbers of people off the planet.
Race can and does play a factor, both races need to know and understand that. If injustice and invasions had not weakened the nations of Africa and caused a power shift in this country that makes it hard to hear the voices of Indigenous Peoples and those of African descent--there would be different decisions being made. The Indigenous tribes have known for some time the danger of fooling with Environmental and Ecological balance. White people invading the country neither knew nor cared to know anything that would stop their quest for material based power.
This does not mean race does not matter. It matters in that the perception of it has allowed injustice to occur.
What matters more is that the perception of race continues to allow injustice to exist.
I have frank conversations with people of all colors. Honesty is not our strong suit as a nation. I've sat with a white person who spills their soul about how horrible it is to be in a family of racist bigots then cringes the next day when they see me, embarrassed by what I now know about their kin. I've listened to Black people who agree fighting bigotry with bigotry is a losing game then soon after joins a group of friends or family members in making racist jokes.
Each of these people has difficulty being honest, insisting on authenticity in their relationships and maintaining a sense of self worth while fighting injustice. The truth shall set you free.
Race is a complicated issue. As mothers we face the complex daily. Patience, kindness , love and focus are all necessary. I listened to a young mother on the radio earlier this week. Her child is a minority in a public school. She is watching the young girl carefully for signs she is suffering from diminished self worth from being the only one of her kind in the class. She took note of the fact that the 'conversation' is different between students of different colors, all of the experiences this girls classmates are having are very different from hers. She is forced to have conversations she would not have otherwise, she is forced to see life from someone else's very different point of view. She and her child are white.
The children will look to us and ask what to do in these situations but they will also teach us what to do, for to teach them anything other than Justice, Equality and Peace is to diminish their character and go against their grain.
To the bright eyed students in Mama Yogi Circles who need guidance on race I say to the Black child: Be Just and firm as you open the eyes of others to the fact that you are equally worthy of respect in America and everywhere, hatred eats the soul and love is the most powerful tool of the warrior. Being love is not backing down, it is holding firm with a tool that can be shared by all. Be just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality, be it your time, your voice , your money or your power.
To the White child I say, You are not responsible for the actions of your ancestors , you are responsible for your own. Be Just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality , be it your time, your voice, your money or your power.
To all I say, We are Earthlings and our earth needs recovery from sea to shining sea. Breath deep and focus on the task at hand. With the focus of a Truth Warrior, like the Masai the Moors and the Samarai, you too can use your true self to win.
The tragedy befalling the earth is made up of many elements and one of them is racism, between all peoples and all types of people on our planet. Let us claim all aspects of healing my people!
In South Africa and in Germany, resources have been shared between races and are available from the government to help resolve the issues of the past, our resources for racism here are from private sources but I hope to see this change soon. We need these resources and training on how to be healed from racism and its effects to be government sponsored and available to all. Please find the information I have to share below and feel free to post your own.
Wekesa and Afiya Madzimoyo, Warrior Healer Builder, healing opressions wounds. The couple hosts retreats and speak throughout the country to help people of African descent recognize and heal from the effects of institutionalized racism in America. http://ayaeducation.blogspot.com/p/warriors-healers-builders.html
Jane Pittman,is the third grade school teacher who designed the blue eyed brown eyed exercise in 1968. She has been traveling and teaching with this exercise for over 18 years to help white people and others understand the 'anatomy of racism' and its detrimental effect on all.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/crusade.htmlhttp:/
For more information on healing and rebuilding practices of South Africa please see this article. www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/21/1203306/-Healing-truth-and-reconciliation-in-South-Africa
And these videos of white people and others on racial healing are enlightening and insightful. and http://www.me2weracialhealing.com/
Love Yourselves, Love Each Other, Love Your Planet. Peace!
The salad bowl analogy is only slightly better. A tossed salad is several pieces carelessly thrown together, lighter pieces on top and heavier more dense one sinking unseen to the bottom, all of it drowned in a dressing so strong the individual flavors are often lost.
The ideal of our country was not either of these things but rather a skillful portrait, in which colors are artfully blended to capture their best qualities and placed beside other colors that allow them to be showcased at their most spectacular. Together this work of art was to hold the highest principles known to mankind and be so breathtakingly beautiful,that the whole world would celebrate its Maker and its exquisite function. Ideas that high don't occur by 'coincidence'.
And then... Life happened. Ego, Greed and misplaced ambition took over and our country has begun to resemble a blood bath more than anything else.
It is sad that there are so many layers of corruption. It is wonderful that there are those of us coming together to try and reclaim what is true, best and beautiful in our original intent.
Equality, Justice, Peace these are things that resonate with the spirit and soul.
Every race of people knows we need these things to live, The question becomes, how do we bridge the gap between races so that each can see that the other is equally deserving of these principles?
As a yoga teacher it is my obligation to teach all and any who seek what I have to give.
It is my experience that between the two major races at conflict in my country the stand I take on race is perceived from two major angles.
Black People tend to think by trying to teach love and peace to everyone I am taking a low road to avoid conflict and not really speaking out about the 'real' issues of institutionalized racism and inequality. While white people tend to think I am 'safe' a loving soul who sees no color and will not judge them based on the actions of their ancestors , friends, relatives or neighbors.
Perception is key. Neither are ever prepared for what I actually believe and have to say.
There are much bigger issues on the table than your race. There is a game of life and death being played that will wipe out significant numbers of people off the planet.
Race can and does play a factor, both races need to know and understand that. If injustice and invasions had not weakened the nations of Africa and caused a power shift in this country that makes it hard to hear the voices of Indigenous Peoples and those of African descent--there would be different decisions being made. The Indigenous tribes have known for some time the danger of fooling with Environmental and Ecological balance. White people invading the country neither knew nor cared to know anything that would stop their quest for material based power.
This does not mean race does not matter. It matters in that the perception of it has allowed injustice to occur.
What matters more is that the perception of race continues to allow injustice to exist.
I have frank conversations with people of all colors. Honesty is not our strong suit as a nation. I've sat with a white person who spills their soul about how horrible it is to be in a family of racist bigots then cringes the next day when they see me, embarrassed by what I now know about their kin. I've listened to Black people who agree fighting bigotry with bigotry is a losing game then soon after joins a group of friends or family members in making racist jokes.
Each of these people has difficulty being honest, insisting on authenticity in their relationships and maintaining a sense of self worth while fighting injustice. The truth shall set you free.
Race is a complicated issue. As mothers we face the complex daily. Patience, kindness , love and focus are all necessary. I listened to a young mother on the radio earlier this week. Her child is a minority in a public school. She is watching the young girl carefully for signs she is suffering from diminished self worth from being the only one of her kind in the class. She took note of the fact that the 'conversation' is different between students of different colors, all of the experiences this girls classmates are having are very different from hers. She is forced to have conversations she would not have otherwise, she is forced to see life from someone else's very different point of view. She and her child are white.
The children will look to us and ask what to do in these situations but they will also teach us what to do, for to teach them anything other than Justice, Equality and Peace is to diminish their character and go against their grain.
To the bright eyed students in Mama Yogi Circles who need guidance on race I say to the Black child: Be Just and firm as you open the eyes of others to the fact that you are equally worthy of respect in America and everywhere, hatred eats the soul and love is the most powerful tool of the warrior. Being love is not backing down, it is holding firm with a tool that can be shared by all. Be just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality, be it your time, your voice , your money or your power.
To the White child I say, You are not responsible for the actions of your ancestors , you are responsible for your own. Be Just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality , be it your time, your voice, your money or your power.
To all I say, We are Earthlings and our earth needs recovery from sea to shining sea. Breath deep and focus on the task at hand. With the focus of a Truth Warrior, like the Masai the Moors and the Samarai, you too can use your true self to win.
The tragedy befalling the earth is made up of many elements and one of them is racism, between all peoples and all types of people on our planet. Let us claim all aspects of healing my people!
In South Africa and in Germany, resources have been shared between races and are available from the government to help resolve the issues of the past, our resources for racism here are from private sources but I hope to see this change soon. We need these resources and training on how to be healed from racism and its effects to be government sponsored and available to all. Please find the information I have to share below and feel free to post your own.
Wekesa and Afiya Madzimoyo, Warrior Healer Builder, healing opressions wounds. The couple hosts retreats and speak throughout the country to help people of African descent recognize and heal from the effects of institutionalized racism in America. http://ayaeducation.blogspot.com/p/warriors-healers-builders.html
Jane Pittman,is the third grade school teacher who designed the blue eyed brown eyed exercise in 1968. She has been traveling and teaching with this exercise for over 18 years to help white people and others understand the 'anatomy of racism' and its detrimental effect on all.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/crusade.htmlhttp:/
For more information on healing and rebuilding practices of South Africa please see this article. www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/21/1203306/-Healing-truth-and-reconciliation-in-South-Africa
And these videos of white people and others on racial healing are enlightening and insightful. and http://www.me2weracialhealing.com/
Love Yourselves, Love Each Other, Love Your Planet. Peace!
Friday, August 29, 2014
A picture is worth a thousand words! Mama Yogi Activity Circles are designed to engage the hearts, minds and imaginations of active children. Enjoy these pics from Summer 2013 so far! We have had a blast learning how to care for our earth and answer the question; Whose Earth Is It? With An Earth Warriors Response: It's My Earth-- Don't kick it Around!
The Mama Yogi Activity Time Show! April 2014, this is a work in progress! What fun work! Here is my little crew at District 4 Community Center preparing yummy and fun snacks for our new show. We haven't aired any yet because the sound quality is awful!
It is a learning experience for all!
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Tiye and Elijah help Prepare a healthy snack during Crafts and Snack Time on The Mama Yogi Show
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Love Yourself. Love Your Earth. Love Each Other.
Love Yourself. Love Your Earth. Love Each Other
Teaching Educational Interactive stories, games ,songs and crafts about the environment, self esteem and good physical and emotional health to children is a richly rewarding experience for me. As a home school teacher I've used interactive methods for over 20 years. The children are challenged to participate physically and intellectually. When they walk away knowing they have helped to create something, the lessons they've learned are also more likely to stay with them.
Ayurvedic Medicine ( of which yoga is a part) is a preventative medicine practice. To care for yourself is to take the time to learn what you need to do in order to be healthy and happy. This type of self love has a big impact on your life and the lives of people around you. Often parents tell me all the reasons they don't have time for simple self care like soaking their feet or keeping a regular exercise routine. There is one major reason they should make time--the examples you set are some of the most important lessons you will ever teach your child.
When children see parents taking a time out for themselves , it becomes ingrained within them that this is an appropriate way to behave. This passive lesson becomes a part of the child's life, then future and like magic you have produced a healthier child.
Care of our relationship with our Earth and Our fellow humans follow the same principle. The problems in our environment today that I address in the Environmental News Magazine ; The Shanti Sun, are a result of our failure to understand the importance of building and maintaining relationship with our home, our planet.
When we start showing our babies from their earliest stages of development that this relationship is important to us and all humans , plants and creatures on Earth,it becomes second nature to them and again, like magic we have produced a healthier planet.
The 1300 mile walk for Earth and Peace that my family participated in in March and April of this year brought together the concepts of caring for earth and the concept of caring for each other as one. Who wants to live on the planet alone? When disaster strikes we are all struck by it. Our first thoughts during natural and unnatural disaster are usually 1st are my loved ones safe and then, how many in my neighborhood, city, country and planet have been lost? If only we can maintain this concern on a daily basis! Love one another every day and conflicts from the most interpersonal to the most global can become a thing of the past--yes , like magic we can produce healthier human relationships too.
On this most significant day when many still grieve the tragic loss of so much life let us each vow to do better in our own lives in all these areas and pass it on.
Peace and Love
Mama Yogi
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