Wow...I just watched an inspirational video from Julia Butterfly Hill. Remember the lady who spent over 700 days living in a Redwood Tree in California, as a peaceful demonstration to save the trees from being forested? She is a part of the Global Mala Project, and what a leader she is! I found myself getting emotional during the part of the video where she says "our world is dying." How did we become so wasteful? And, when did it become ok for us to be that way? Now that we know better, we must be better. I hope you will take a few moments to watch this video, and perhaps you will find it lights the fire of inspiration within you to "be the change" instead of just talking about it. We can each make a difference in our own way. Perhaps part of the reason we do not change our ways is because we don't think our subtle shifts will have an impact...but the truth is they do...

You will also enjoy watching this video of Shiva Rea as she gives an eloquent introduction to the intention of the Worldwide Global Mala Project. I hope you will unite together with your community the weekend of September 21, 22, 23. There may even be Global Mala events taking place in your community. If there isn't an organized event, you can still align with the collective consciousness in your own unique way even if that means you spend 27 minutes in meditation focusing on the expansion of peace on planet earth. The Global Mala website offers some ideas of how to honor the sacred cycle of 108 or variations therefore to align together with the collective consciousness of Yoga as peace in action.

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy

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