Hatha Yoga and Peace Week

Published: Mon, 01/18/21

Hello Folks,

I hope this email finds you well. Just two things below...

1. HATHA YOGA INTENSIVE

This is a reminder that next week, Monday, January 25th to Friday, January 29th, Robert Moses and I will be running a repeat of the Level One Hatha Yoga Intensive. These are the only classes I'll be teaching next week (except on Sunday, January 24th, when I will still teach the Primary and Intermediate classes). Below is the schedule for the Intensive, all of which will be recorded for people in different time zones. Level Two Hatha Yoga Intensive will be in March.

Monday-Wednesday-Friday (Tuesday and Thursday will be self-practice days)

5:30am Meditation

6:00am Sankalpa and Japa

6:30am Pranayama

7:45am One Hour Asana Practice

4:00pm Pranayama

5:00pm Yoga Therapy with a focus on the Lungs

6:30pm Hatha Yoga Pradipika Lecture

7:30pm Closing Mantras and prayers

8:00pm Silent Meditation

You can register for the course and make your donation in US currency here. If you would like to donate in a different currency, you can follow this link here, where you'll also see a list of correlate prices for different countries, so if you happen to live, for example, in India or Argentina, you will not be donating in US prices. We do have a sliding scale, and if you are unable to donate at this time, please send us an email to let us know and we'll sign you up regardless.

2. PEACE WEEK and DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

Peace Week is an official event on the New York City Mayoral calendar that occurs each year starting the day after Martin Luther King Day. It was started by Erica Ford, the founder of LIFE Camp, the Queens-based organization that works around the clock to end gun violence in NYC. Peace Week is founded on this pledge:

As Peace Week kicks off, our communities in southeast Queens that were at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak this past spring continue to struggle with recovery. NYC saw a 167% increase in shootings in 2020, largely in the second half of the year. LIFE Camp has been at the frontlines responding to this increased violence and the needs of various communities in NYC at risk to gun violence through violence interrupter programs, therapeutic wellness, employment programs, and the Cure Violence model.

During this year's Peace Week, the Teach A Man To Fish Foundation is generously TRIPLE MATCHING all donations that come in to support LIFE Camp's work in gun violence reduction! If you would like to support with $1, $5, $10, $20 or more, your donation will be immediately tripled, and those funds will go directly towards saving lives, and rehabilitating lives that have been destroyed through bullets. You can donate here if you are able and would like to!

It's humbling and daunting to be the co-Chairperson of the board of LIFE Camp, and I serve this organization as best I can without the experience of what it is like to grow up and live in a community that has been historically ravaged by gun violence. LIFE Camp accomplishes what it does with an extraordinary and dedicated group of people who are committed to ending gun-violence not just in NY, but throughout the country.

On this day commemorating the life of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, the remembrance of engaged, non-violent activism, is foremost in my mind.

Dr. King said in his "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, that:

"We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."

These words that he spoke were reminders to his brothers and sisters of all colors that our destinies are all intrinsically intertwined, and that:

"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead."

With peace and love,

Eddie

PS Please check out LIFE Camp's accomplishments of the past year in this graphic below: