| YOGA GIVES BACK |
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| Written by Gabriela Rocha |
| Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:30 |
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JOEL BENDER
In 2005 yoga teacher Joel Bender visited South India to further his studies and found himself deeply moved by both the yoga and the people he met who were struggling to survive to amid poverty, disease and lack of opportunity. He imagine the U.S. yoga community reaching out to help those who live in the birthplace of yoga. Today Grameen Foundation (In 2006, Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Price for their pioneering work using microfinance to battle poverty) and Yoga Journal are making this vision a reality. "Compassion is a uniquely human quality that calls on out highest nature to respond to another person, an animal, even the earthitself. This is truly the highest yoga we can undertake, a tangible expression of the unity that underlies all life." Joel Bender...
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