A Peaceful Projection

A Peaceful Projection

Our LA tribe contacted us last week to share a vision for an inspiring concept… world peace in 5 years.  P5Y.org, a global collaboration to create world peace in five years, launches on Februay 14, 2009 and has set the deadline for world peace five years later to the date, February 14, 2014.

This great picture was taken today at Town Lake here in Austin, TX.  We were amazed at how many people jumped in and joined us once they saw the banner.  Love those Austinites!  Demonstrations for peace in 5 years are coming in from all over the country and world.  Thank you Town Lake friends and the weather gods for making this possible!

Elevision Gets Selfcentered

Check out this fun Elevision interview with Namaste client and friend Max Simon. Elevision is becoming the “go-to” for progressive interviews online and Max’s get selfcentered Movement is making meditation cool!

Highlights from the Eco Gift Expo 2007

Namaste helped make it a greener holiday season by virtue of our partnership with Tommy Rosen and the ECO Gift Expo. We’re excited to share this video highlight of some of the incredible products that were available to over 6,000 eco-friendly attendees. The movement is just getting started!

Namaste Partners with Eco Gift Expo

We were honored when Eco Gift Expo founder and conscious entrepreneur Tommy Rosen approached us about becoming an integrated partner of his green holiday shopping event. Eco Gift is creating the first ever large-scale eco-conscious gift show that provides people with an uplifting experience and a solution to the inconveniences and terrible waste associated with the holidays and holiday shopping. The first will be held on December 15th & 16th in Santa Monica.

Here’s Tommy speaking about Eco Gift on Elevision!

Global Mala Making Headlines

The Global Mala Project has organically grown its way into the major media including Forbes Magazine and ABC News. Now with hundreds of studios participating, renowned teachers and major sponsors, GMP has quickly become the most anticipated yoga event worldwide. Global Mala’s purpose is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a “mala around the earth” through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108 on Sept. 21st and 22nd, Fall Equinox as the yoga world’s offering to further the UN International Peace Day. We at Namaste honored to be a sponsor of this incredible event!

Namaste Sponsors the Global Mala Project

We’re honored to announce our recent sponsorship of The Global Mala Project. Founded by Shiva Rea, the purpose of the Global Mala is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a “mala around the earth” through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108 on Sept. 21st and 22nd, Fall Equinox as the yoga world’s offering to further the UN International Peace Day. Each center offers their form of a Yoga Mala according to their yoga tradition and inspiration.

Each Center can be dedicated to practice or to practice and seva – service by integrating local action, and raising funds for the organization of their choice or joining forces with other yoga centers and raising funds for three specific projects within the below organizations:

Global warming (Trees for the Future)
Children refugees of war (War Child)
HIV/AIDS (YouthAIDS)
Any seva projects that yoga studios, ashrams are supporting

Funds raised are sent directly to the organizations with the awareness that $108 – $1008 is not a drop in the bucket when we join forces together to address the most urgent issues of our times. Visit here to learn more about the Global Mala project.

Calling all Peaceful

Filmmaker and conscious musician, Michael Franti, will be holding a free concert in Golden Gate Park on September 9th called the Power to the Peaceful. This event will feature several conscious artists, including Franti and Spearhead. In addition to the main stage of live music, PTTP also features morning yoga, an open-air art gallery, a healing arts tent, a DJ tent, vendors and food booths, eco village, kid’s zone, bicycle coalition, and social, environmental & political organizations tabling & forums.

The festival began in 1999, however when the attacks of September 11th, 2001 occurred, the festival took on a new significance, serving both as a day of remembrance for the lives lost in the tragedy as well as a day in which Northern Californians called for and end to all bombing around the globe. “Be Peace Now” is this year’s theme reminding us that the path to a less violent world starts from within. Or as Michael Franti sees it, “We can’t change the world over night, but we can be a drop in the river that moves a mountain”.

Hope to see you there.