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Yoga from Tokyo – It’s borderless!

Very helpful ofcourse to know the time difference. This is

very helpful so you don’t miss the workshop.

Looking forward to Akira Watamoto’s Live with Pranada – this event would have been impossible for me to have attended even if I were in Japan due to the schedule dedicated to serving my family SO … very excited that finally I get to visit his “studio” – a virtual one at that:)

Yogi Akira Watamoto, I once had the honor of translating his interview from Japanese to English, right after the 3/11 disaster. He’s been teaching for over 20 years in Tokyo and is known to have brought the concept of “Power Yoga” to Japan to restore the tarnished image of yoga back in the day.

If there is any kind of silver lining to the current distressful state of affairs, could it be that we are willing to explore new ways to reach and teach? Still a total newbie to this virtual world … I am blindly exploring.

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Beautiful Deeds Beautiful People

Well Said by local kids …

“Silence is Violence” “We can rise above Hate” “we can do better”… messages of … hope

I was surprised and thrilled to see these post-it messages pasted on a telephone pole … in a very white neighborhood. On the street there was a BIG chalk writing that said “WE CAN BE BETTER”. This is a neighborhood where even Asians were prohibited from living couple of decades ago and I rarely shades of browns and blacks … I suspect adults have thoughts of factors that lowers the property values shading their thoughts of righteousness … it’s ingrained; it’s systematic … SHAME Shame shame

Still it’s amazing that it’s out in the open and in thoughts of all rather than sweeping things under the rug and pretending all is well. Because. It’s not.

There’s hope.

These post-its carry that … hope.

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Healthy Living

Ways to make a difference

Not everyone is out on the streets protesting … there are ways to show you care …

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Of course all lives matter and those who think that’s not being addressed is missing the point. All lives should matter we are in agreement BUT discrimination, bigotry and injustice based on skin color unproportionately targets and torments black community and this, for years and decades.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

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“Every year, hundreds of journalists are attacked, imprisoned, or killed. For more than 30 years, CPJ has been there to defend them and fight for press freedom.”


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Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation – news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda – every day, in real time.

Media Matters for America is a web-based, not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Using the website mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.”