Inspirational students lobby for clean energy

Phil — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:28:25 +0000

Dahn yoga cares for the Earth and will be showing its commitment to Earth Day by holding free classes throughout the country.

One of the aims of yoga is to foster spiritual and personal growth. As Earth Day – April 20 – is upon us, students at Connecticut College will be promoting education and growth through knowledge about clean energy.

The students will attend a program in Washington D.C. called Power Shift, which will feature former Vice President Al Gore as a keynote speaker.

“Power Shift is an incredibly motivating and inspirational event that draws together thousands of people from all around the nation who are interested in the environmental movement. It offers a lot of opportunities to learn about organizing campuses and communities to mobilize for climate change,” said Zoe Diaz-Martin, a student who will graduate in 2012.

According to Elias Kauders, the student chair of environmental affairs at Connecticut College, many students wanted to be involved.

Earth Day will be celebrated around the country and people can do the simplest things, such as recycling, in order to help protect the environment and perhaps inspire others to do the same.

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Yoga attunes inmates to responsibility, interpersonal well-being

Phil — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:13:22 +0000

At its core, Dahn Yoga helps practitioners develop confidence and integrity through self-awareness. Selfhood is important, and working on bettering the self can have positive consequences for the mind and the body, but yoga also emphasizes the inseparable connection between the individual and the collective group.

Perhaps this is why some prison programs are utilizing yoga as a method of pacification, reflection and healing behind bars.

Giving inmates time to reflect on their lives and to pursue spiritual fulfillment may help keep the penitentiary environment a tranquil one. It may even reduce jail time by keeping prisoners occupied and content, Fox News Orlando reports.

Several studies have shown that yoga can improve behavior in a prison population. A 2005 report published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion found that inmates who practiced yoga had a more positive outlook and felt more connection and compassion for others.

A similar study conducted the same year and appearing in the Contemporary Justice Review determined that yoga and meditation helped prisoners find a sense of truth and meaningfulness that they did not possess before.

This sort of mental exploration is the goal of Dahn Yoga, a system which promotes mental healing as much as physical health.

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