an alarmist prediction for 2012: SERVE SERVE SERVE

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam,

 

aren't we all just renting anyway? being homeless is no joke as i pass at least

20-30 homeless folks in downtown berkeley every day. a tent adventure of a week

doesn't compare to a wet sleeping bag in the cold rain night after night. i

never read the alarmist prediction (don't worry, be happy) but the response i

liked best and try to live up to is SERVE, SERVE, SERVE. From cooking in a

Black Panther Party breakfast program in Chicago in 1971 til now i've tried to

exemplify " serve the people " . I have recently gone carless and encourage

others to do the same. Share Kundalini Yoga like Krishna kaur does. Yoga in

jails, homeless shelter, for at risk youth etc. The largest classes in the SF

East Bay are also low-priced: Prabhu Nam at San leandro Adult, Amars Singh and

Kaur at richmond Adult and yo, ram Das at Lakeshore ave Baptist Church. Package

rates make it about $5 a class. I think if everyone on this list halved their

prices, you might end up

with twice as many people and be teaching a less elite bunch of folks who need

it more because of the real economic or work-related stress they face. Ask

yourself if a single public school teacher with one or two kids can afford your

class. If you are dedicated to the upper and upper middle class so be it, but

then you ought to donate to groups like MSF, (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam,

South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign. Or i have an AIDS orphanage in rural

Uganda for you. I send them $10n K a yearl, some from yoga proceeds. Check out

Omtara's Yoga for a Cause.

 

Exemplary folks include Hank Wilson, a selfless AIDS activist who recently

passed in San Francisco, big memorial for him on Dec 6 and Marla Ruzicka who

singlehandedly forced the Bush Admin to shell out $1500 to families who members

were " collateral damage of the Afghan and Iraq wars. there's a book: Sweet

Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story, which may be a movie with Kirstin (Kristin)

Durnst. Be the change you wish to see in the world!

 

it's time for new agers to start Walking the Walk, put the " we are one " into

action. i wonder if anyone donated to the folks trying to start an ashram in

Jo=berg South Africa, the most crime ridden city on the planet where KY is

definitely needed? thye put out a post on this list about a year ago.....i

wonder how they are doing?

 

Humbly but ardently submitted and meditating for Al Franken's victory in

Minnesota,

 

Ram Das Singh (John Iversen)

[Guest guest]

Amen, Brother ji. Sat Nam.

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , John Iversen

<johniversen94702 wrote:

>

> Sat Nam,

>

> aren't we all just renting anyway? being homeless is no joke as i

pass at least 20-30 homeless folks in downtown berkeley every day. a

tent adventure of a week doesn't compare to a wet sleeping bag in the

cold rain night after night. i never read the alarmist prediction

(don't worry, be happy) but the response i liked best and try to live

up to is SERVE, SERVE, SERVE. From cooking in a Black Panther Party

breakfast program in Chicago in 1971 til now i've tried to exemplify

" serve the people " . I have recently gone carless and encourage

others to do the same. Share Kundalini Yoga like Krishna kaur does.

Yoga in jails, homeless shelter, for at risk youth etc. The largest

classes in the SF East Bay are also low-priced: Prabhu Nam at San

leandro Adult, Amars Singh and Kaur at richmond Adult and yo, ram Das

at Lakeshore ave Baptist Church. Package rates make it about $5 a

class. I think if everyone on this list halved their prices, you

might end up

> with twice as many people and be teaching a less elite bunch of

folks who need it more because of the real economic or work-related

stress they face. Ask yourself if a single public school teacher with

one or two kids can afford your class. If you are dedicated to the

upper and upper middle class so be it, but then you ought to donate to

groups like MSF, (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, South Africa's

Treatment Action Campaign. Or i have an AIDS orphanage in rural

Uganda for you. I send them $10n K a yearl, some from yoga proceeds.

Check out Omtara's Yoga for a Cause.

>

> Exemplary folks include Hank Wilson, a selfless AIDS activist who

recently passed in San Francisco, big memorial for him on Dec 6 and

Marla Ruzicka who singlehandedly forced the Bush Admin to shell out

$1500 to families who members were " collateral damage of the Afghan

and Iraq wars. there's a book: Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka

Story, which may be a movie with Kirstin (Kristin) Durnst. Be the

change you wish to see in the world!

>

> it's time for new agers to start Walking the Walk, put the " we are

one " into action. i wonder if anyone donated to the folks trying to

start an ashram in Jo=berg South Africa, the most crime ridden city on

the planet where KY is definitely needed? thye put out a post on this

list about a year ago.....i wonder how they are doing?

>

> Humbly but ardently submitted and meditating for Al Franken's

victory in Minnesota,

>

> Ram Das Singh (John Iversen)

>

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam,I agree with you Ram Das Singh, in fact I was inspired by your class at the church in Oakland.  Also I saw a video of Gurmukh suggesting that people could teach classes by donation.  I recently began a class at a Unitarian church in Berkeley, and I'm charging a sliding scale fee of $5-$15.  I had 3 students the first week, 7 the second and last week 12 students.  It seems to average out to about $8/student, which is fine.  (I used to get paid $4.50/student when I taught at a yoga studio.)  I just really like the idea that people can take a class for five bucks, especially in these challenging economic times.  And as you said, twice as many students at half the price is the same income, with double the planetary healing potential.http://www.relaxedenergy.com/11401/52332.htmlSimran SinghBerkeley> I think if everyone on this list halved their prices, you might end up with twice as many people and be teaching a less elite bunch of folks who need it more because of the real economic or work-related stress they face. Ask yourself if a single public school teacher with one or two kids can afford your class.