Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week

Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa supports the African Village Survival Initiative!

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Well-known and beloved yogi Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa of Khalsa Healing Arts in Yardley, PA speaks on Seva, the highest form of yoga, and why everyone practicing yoga should support the African Village Survival Initiative.

Check out a class near you or DONATE a class today to be part of Yoga With a Purpose!

Come Practice Yoga & Support the African Village Survival Initiative!

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Scroll down and check out the great classes we have all week, all over the country!

The 2nd Annual Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week is over -- thank you to everyone who participated!

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THANK YOU!

Sunday, May 2nd

Philly:
10:30am-12:00 noon – Community Yoga, Adrian King
Massage Arts Center, 519 S. 4th St, South Philly
www.massagearts.com

1-2:30pm – Vinyasa
Shivon Pearl, Dhyana Yoga, in Clark Park
http://www.dhyana-yoga.com

Monday, May 3rd

Grenada Hills (LA area), CA:
6:00-7:30pm - Kundalini Yoga - Tamera Hanna, Mukhande Yoga Studio
17609 Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills, CA • 818-831-6000
www.MukhandeYogaStudio.com

Oakland, CA:
8:45-10:00pm - Late Night Flow
Vinyasa style of yoga that focuses on integrating breath with movement.
with Katy Cryer, director of Square One Yoga Collective, 1540A 62nd St., Emeryville
www.squareoneyoga.com

Yardley, PA:
6:00pm – Kundalini Yoga - Nihrbe Kaur Khalsa
7:30pm – Meditation – Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa
Khalsa Healing Arts, 301 oxford valley road, Yardley, PA 215-321-0305, http://meditationpathways.com

Tuesday, May 4th

Oakland CA:
7-8:30pm All Levels Yoga & Healthy Digestion Workshop
Special Class taught by Samantha Rasmussen, Yoga teacher trained at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco.
Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Contact oakland@uhurusolidarity.org

Wednesday, May 5th

Thursday, May 6th

Philly:

12noon-1:00pm Kundalini Yoga - Aadi Ananda
Art of Wellness Center - 647 Bainbridge St • (215) 305-2238
http://www.artofwellnesscenter.com

4:30-5:45pm ~Yin Yoga (w/ a Taoist twist)
Gabrielle “Plum Dragoness” {@ Yoga Child (Phila, PA) http://www.yogachild.net

7:00-8:00pm - Stress Release Meditation
- Wendy Whiting • Price: $15/person
Massage Arts School, 519 S. 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA • 215-383-0084

Walk-ins are welcome but space is limited. Best to call and sign up or email: wendy@empowerthespirit.org

Seattle, WA:
9:30 - 10:45 AM - Vinyasa- Alignment With Diana Bonyhadi
3310 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE #I • Sammamish, WA
(425) 677-8403 • http://www.urbanoasisyoga.com • http://kharmabellayoga.wordpress.com

5:30 - 6:45 PM - Vinyasa- Alignment With Diana Bonyhadi
3310 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE #I • Sammamish, WA
(425) 677-8403 • http://www.urbanoasisyoga.com • http://kharmabellayoga.wordpress.com

St Petersburg, FL:
6-7:30PM - Yoga With Kerry Porter
Classical Medicine: 1432 MLK St. N. http://kerrywillsyoga.com

Friday, May 7th
Ardmore, PA:
10-11:15am ~Vinyasa Yoga (w/ a Dragon's twist)
Gabrielle “Plum Dragoness” {@ Dhyana Yoga (Ardmore, PA)
http://www.dhyana-yoga.com

Tarpon Springs, Florida:
7:45-8:45pm - Intro to Yoga with Eve
Temple Goddess, 21 N. Safford Ave, Tarpon Springs, FL
727-493-2184 • templegoddess.com

Sunday, May 9th

Oakland, CA:
9:30 - 11:00am - fearlessYOGA
the first and only yoga approach ever designed for activists, allies, and agents of social change. Come experience fearlessYOGA in our Sunday drop in class and engage postures that are part of our warrior series posture sequences.
Location: Center for Transformative Change, 2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Cost: by donation

Sunday, May 16th

Dunedin, FL:
7:00 - 9:00 am - Mysore/Ashtanga class - Ally Ford
White Orchid Yoga, 304 Monroe St. Dunedin, FL, 34698
(727) 474-3771 http://www.whiteorchidyoga.com

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Support sustainability & social justice
by doing what you do best!

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in last year’s first Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week! Your support helped to make it a successful fundraiser for sustainable African community-led economic development projects in the U.S. and worldwide.

This year we have a goal of expanding to 70-100 classes in studios throughout the U.S., and we're calling on you to join many others in the yoga community by donating the proceeds from one class or workshop during the week of May 2nd – 9th, 2010 to the African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI)!

Yoga With a Purpose contributes to the cultural life of your school by educating your students and giving them a way to contribute to these positive African self-reliance programs. Seva is an important part of every yogi's journey, and Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week provides a great opportunity for service to the community.

Donate a class or workshop
Volunteer to build & attend the classes
Talk to other yoga teachers & schools about Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week
We can give informational presentations to your school!

Benefits the
African Village
Survival Initiative

Black community-led programs
for economic self-reliance

Recording Studio
Community Gardens
Commercial Kitchen

Sign up to donate a class, volunteer or help build the 2nd Annual Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week -- Keep checking here for classes!

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Africa's Resources in African Hands!

Support sustainability & social justice
by doing what you do best!

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in last year’s first Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week! Your support helped to make it a successful fundraiser for sustainable African community-led economic development projects in the U.S. and worldwide.

This year we have a goal of expanding to 70-100 classes in studios throughout the U.S., and we're calling on you to join many others in the yoga community by donating the proceeds from one class or workshop during the week of May 2nd – 9th, 2010 to the African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI)!

Yoga With a Purpose contributes to the cultural life of your school by educating your students and giving them a way to contribute to these positive African self-reliance programs. Seva is an important part of every yogi's journey, and Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week provides a great opportunity for service to the community.

Donate a class or workshop
Volunteer to build & attend the classes
Talk to other yoga teachers & schools about Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week
We can give informational presentations to your school!

Benefits the African Village
Survival Initiative

Black community-led programs for economic self-reliance

Recording Studio • Community Gardens • Commercial Kitchen

Benefit Week May 2-9, 2010 - Get Involved Now!

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2^nd Annual Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week – May 2-9, 2010

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in last year’s first Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week! Your support helped to make it a successful fundraiser for sustainable African community-led economic development projects.

This year we have a goal of expanding to 70-100 classes in studios throughout the U.S., and we're calling on you to join the hundreds of others in the yoga community by donating the proceeds from one class or workshop during the week of May 2nd – 9th, 2010 to the African Village Survival Initiative!

The African Village Survival Initiative is a program created by the African-led Uhuru Movement for community-based economic self-reliance. The Uhuru (Freedom) House in St Petersburg FL, the worldwide headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, is a working center for economic development. The African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI) is working to equip the Uhuru House with a recording studio as an institution of international African culture and a commercial kitchen for community based economic development projects.

At a time when unemployment is over 50% in African communities, these self-sustaining institutions are key to economic development, creating countless new jobs, expanding existing businesses and producing African culture in African hands.

AVSI Uhuru House projects are about the African community solving the problems by uniting Africans together all over this country and the world for self-determination.

This is not charity. Donate as solidarity with African people creating their own development by participating in the Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week!

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Get yoga studios in your community to donate classes
• Community outreach
• Volunteer at the events
• Teach a benefit yoga class or workshop
• Host a Yoga With a Purpose benefit house party!

In or near Philadelphia? Come to the Community Meetings:

Saturdays from 2-4pm:
• March 27 • April 10
and Every Thursday • 7:30pm

Uhuru Solidarity Center
3733 Lancaster Ave • W. Phila • #10 trolley

Yoga With A Purpose Classes - Sign Up Today!

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These yoga studios and teachers graciously donated a class to the African Village Survival Initiative during the week of November 16-22nd.
More info: CALL 215-387-0919 or email philly@uhurusolidarity.org.

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THANK YOU!

•Laughter Yoga with Purvi Jani
285/287 Newton Ave, Oakland
pveggielady@yahoo.com

•Adrian King
Hawthorne Yoga
1241 Carpenter St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(267) 593-4962
www.hawthorneyoga.com

•O15 Workout - High Intensity 15 Minute Workout
201 S. Camac Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215.732.0155
www.o15workout.com

•Meditation Class - Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa
Khalsa Healing Arts Center
301 Oxford Valley Rd Suite 1504
Yardley, PA 19067
215-321-0305
www.meditationpathways.com
events@khalsahealingarts.com

•Power Yoga - Carey Fritz
Hawthorne Yoga
1241 Carpenter St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(267) 593-4962
www.hawthorneyoga.com

•All Levels Vinyasa - Khushi
SANKHYA YOGA SCHOOL & WELLNESS CENTER
1206 North 5th Street, Studio C
Northern Liberties
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: 267-234-0196 ~ Fax: 267-480-2294
www.sankhyayoga.com

•Beginner Yoga - Polly DiBella
DiBella Yoga Studio
Depot Shoppes
31 Plank Avenue #304
Paoli, PA 19301
dibellayoga@verizon.net
www.dibellayoga.com
610-578-0733

•Hatha/Gentle Beginner Class - Sarah
SANKHYA YOGA SCHOOL & WELLNESS CENTER
1206 North 5th Street, Studio C
Northern Liberties
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: 267-234-0196 ~ Fax: 267-480-2294
www.sankhyayoga.com

•All Levels Jivamukti Vinyasa - Jordanna
Dhyana Yoga Rittenhouse
1611 Walnut St, 4th Floor
215 222-YOGA (9642)
www.dhyana-yoga.com

•Anusara level I/II class – Margaret Dunn-Carver
Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga
20 Kilburn Street
Burlington, Vermont 05401
phone: 802-864-9642
evolutionvt.com
lilayogavt.com
yoga@evolutionvt.com

•Kundalini Yoga - Ellyn Hutton
The Awareness Center at Fit
62 Rockford Road
Wilmington, DE 19806
www.awarenesscenterde.com

•Saraswati River Yoga - Denyse
408 York Rd, suite 2
New Hope, PA 18938
215.862.4520
www.saraswatiriveryoga.com

•All Levels Vinyasa – Leila
Dhyana Yoga West Philly
3945 Chestnut St.,
2nd fl in the HUB
215 222-YOGA (9642)
www.dhyana-yoga.com

•Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
1200 Arguello Blvd in the Inner Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco.
www.sfyoga.com
415-681-2731

•All Levels Vinyasa - Sara T
Dhyana Yoga Rittenhouse
1611 Walnut St, 4th Floor
215 222-YOGA (9642)
www.dhyana-yoga.com

•All Levels Vinyasa - Shivon Pearl
Dhyana Yoga West Philly
3945 Chestnut St.,
2nd fl in the HUB
215 222-YOGA (9642)
www.dhyana-yoga.com

•Vinyasa class - Lea Kreamer
PRANA MANDIR Yoga Studio
4 West 43rd Street - Suite 501
NY, NY 10036
www.pranamandir.com
212.803.5446

Vallejo Yoga in the heart of downtown Vallejo, CA
www.vallejoyoga.com
• Sunrise Flow, Level 1~3
Get ready to build heat, strength and suppleness in this invigorating class. Integration of a stimulating flow--along with a focus on alignment, breath and meditation--make this fun class challenging for all. Class may include a variety of musical themes, from traditional Indian music to The Beatles. Taught by Dariece Warren.
• Sattva Saturday – Beginners-Level 3
Discover the balanced union of body, mind and heart through poses, breath work and meditative flow. Sattva is a Sanskrit word that describes the state of attention without tension: a balance between effort and effortlessness, between rising to a challenge and simply letting go. Move from stress, stiffness, agitation and worry to centeredness, calmness and deep inner peace. Taught by Rhonda Slota.

•All Levels Vinyasa Class - Sara R
SANKHYA YOGA SCHOOL & WELLNESS CENTER
1206 North 5th Street, Studio C
Northern Liberties
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: 267-234-0196 ~ Fax: 267-480-2294
www.sankhyayoga.com

• Kundalini Yoga - Brenda Williams
Studio 34
4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly
www.studio34yoga.com
215-779-7846

• All Levels Kundalini - Harinderpal Kaur
Dhyana Yoga West Philly
3945 Chestnut St.,
2nd fl in the HUB
215 222-YOGA (9642)
www.dhyana-yoga.com

**Special Class on Thanksgiving Day!**
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26th

PHILADELPHIA:

10:00-11:15am - Thanksgiving Day Gratitude Flow with Brittany Policastro
Precede your turkey (or tofurkey) with yoga, tea, cookies and Gratitude!
Studio 34
4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly
www.studio34yoga.com
215-779-7846

Please join Brittany for this donation yoga class at Studio 34. We will gather together as a community to celebrate all of the things we are grateful for. We will flow, sweat, eat some cookies and have some fun!

The class is a donation based class so give what you can!

ALL Donations will be going to Yoga with a Purpose to benefit the African Village Survival Initiative.

Philly First Friday, November 6th - Open House at Dhyana Yoga!

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Join Us!
First Friday • November 6th • 6-9pm

Open House at Dhyana Yoga Old City
68 N. 2nd Street (2nd & Arch) - Old City, Philadelphia, PA
Benefit for the African Village
Survival Initiative (AVSI)
• Films and updates on AVSI Projects
• Online Silent Auction • Refreshments

Bid on the online silent auction until November 15th!

Participate in the Yoga With a Purpose Benefit Week to give and attend yoga, massage, dance & other classes for a great cause!

Support African Community Development in African Hands!

The AVSI is building economic self-determination programs to create a collective solution now, as unemployment in the African community reaches 50%. Programs include outfitting a licensed community kitchen as a resource for independent African food businesses. AVSI is also setting up a state of the art recording studio to give African artists, from throughout the world, a means to produce their own music, to use their talents and create their own self-sustaining employment.

Studio Owners! Yoga Instructors! Massage Therapists! Dance Teachers! Reiki Practicioners! Acupuncturists! Get involved in a week of giving back!

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YOGA WITH A PURPOSE BENEFIT WEEK

Uhuru Solidarity Movement
3733 Lancaster Ave

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-387-0919 • philly@uhurusolidarity.org • apedf.org

We want to invite you to participate in an important benefit for the African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI), “The Yoga with a Purpose Benefit Week”, November 16^th to 22^nd 2009.

We are calling on yoga schools and other healing arts teachers and studios in the Philadelphia area, as well as nationally, to donate one class or workshop during that week to support the AVSI programs.

AVSI is led by the Uhuru (freedom) Movement, and is bringing African people together in the U.S. and worldwide to build collective community sustainable solutions to the economic crisis that has hit the black community particularly hard. These crucial programs include community gardens; water harvesting and solar energy systems; and in particular at this time, the self-reliance economic development projects -- a recording studio and commercial kitchen for the Uhuru House in St Petersburg FL!

This is a wonderful opportunity for everyone in the yoga and healing arts community to support this important initiative. Another major benefit is that Yoga With a Purpose gives you the ability to reach out into your community and bring many new people who have the vision of participating in positive social change into your studio.

Here is what we are asking you to do:

During the week of November 16th-22nd either donate the proceeds from a particular class or hold a special class or workshop where all the monies raised will go to AVSI.

We can send you support materials to help build your class and promote your studio!

- Color Postcards
- Color Posters (which you can also download - can be modified to promote your class)
- Press Release

The beautiful color poster and postcard can be used to promote your class in your community. We are promoting the Yoga with a Purpose Benefit Week through the media and various internet sites and sources. You can use the press release to spread the word through local media and your studio's newsletter.

We will be glad to send you some literature with more information on the AVSI programs and a speaker to come to your studio. More information on these projects can be found at APEDF.org, You can download all the literature from the website to use to promote your class.

If every one of us donates just one class we will raise the much needed funds for exciting African self-determination projects including the opening of a licensed community kitchen which will help create community food businesses, and secure the equipment for a recording studio to give independent African artists a place to produce their work and express their true aspirations.

Please let us know if you would you like to join this exciting campaign, if you would you like to receive some info in the mail or on line and if you know anyone else who may be interested in participating.