Namaste Launches Sacred Energy Arts Site!

We are excited to announce the launch of Mathew Cohen’s Sacred Energy Arts Website! For those of you who have yet to experience Mathew’s incredible teaching, SEA is a method of health and self-development: a multi-disciplinary approach drawn from Hatha and Taoist yoga, martial and healing arts.

The project was a fun challenge for our team not only because of our deep reverence for Mathew as our teacher, but also given the compelling streaming media and integration of the multiple disciplines and earth elements into the overall site visitor experience. Here’s one of our favorite videos of Mathew and his expression of monkey kung fu and baghua. Enjoy…

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.

Namaste Launches the Revolutionary New Shiva Rea Web Site!

Shiva’s new site is a ground breaking new experience for the yoga web realm. When she came to us with the idea, we knew we were going to be part of a unique and completely off the grid experience. We’re excited to present our latest site design collaboration here.. Shiva Rea’s New Site!