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Why Mia Farrow Isn’t the Only Hungry One – Unite for Hunger and Hope

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Fifteen million children die of hunger every year.
Did you know that at this moment in time more than 500 million people are living in “absolute poverty” and more than 15 million children die of hunger every year? Let me say that again: Fifteen million children die of hunger every year. Fifteen million children. Die. [...]

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The Headstand Yoga Mala Challenge – Headstand

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Editor’s Note: Thank you to Share Yoga reader Catie Magee at cmyoga.weebly.com for this cool tip about the Headstand Yoga Mala Challenge tomorrow in San Francisco. Visit her site if you want to support her participation in the Headstand fundraising event where you can donate $5 (or more) to raise money to bring yoga [...]

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Yoga Bear: Non profit provides free yoga to cancer survivors

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ShareYoga recently interviewed Halle Tecco, who is the founder of YogaBear. YogaBear is a special service that matches cancer survivors with yoga studios. Halle came up with the idea when she realized that most classes aren’t filled to capacity and so it wouldn’t cost studios much to put that extra space to good use and [...]

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Watch the Path of a Kiva Loan (very entertaining, too!) (video)

January 13, 2009

As you may already know, I’m a huge fan of Kiva.org. This video shows the path of a $25 per person group investment all the way from the UK to Cambodia set to some great music by the Stones, Franz Ferdinand and others.
P.S. If you want to take a rewarding sabbatical from work, check out [...]

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Two Simple Ways to Experience Good Karma Yoga, Holiday Gift Guide

December 17, 2008

Most Westerners have heard of the term karma and know it to mean bad mojo. (Admit it. You immediately went to Austin Powers saying “that’s bad mojo, baby”.) However, karma is simply a Sanskrit term that means a deed or action. While I do not completely comprehend all the details of the Hindu concept for [...]

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