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By alexis mitchell, 30 August 2010

Fall is proving to be a busy time for Anahata.  Below is a list of upcoming events and opportunities for our Anahata Friends to add some more seva to your day.

• September 4th, please join us in the upper level of Meridian Hill park for a yoga class open to all (and taught by the lovely Emilia) followed by a potluck/picnic for Anahata volunteers and those that are interested in becoming volunteers. It’s a great way to spend some time getting to know like-minded wellness activists + have some time outside doing what we love – moving with breath. More details about our monthly potlucks can be found here: http://www.anahatainternational.org/index.php/news/volunteer-potluck/

• September 12th, Flow will have a table up at this year’s Adams Morgan Day Festival – a crazy time on 18th street with lots of people and opportunity to spread the word about the yoga studio + Flow’s outreach which includes Anahata! I will be there but need a number of volunteers to take 2 hour shifts to help chat with folks as they stop by the table. All help is appreciated :).

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By cuzzell, 28 July 2010

This week, Anahata Grace would like to honor our Outreach Associate Sarah Walter.  Here, she talks a bit about her experience volunteering with our organization. 

When I moved to Washington DC in January this year I decided to take the career jump – transitioning from my background in social work, nonprofit management and adult education to putting my yoga teacher training to use full time. After teaching in the studio scene for a few months I began looking for other ways to combine my other aforementioned backgrounds with my passion for teaching yoga. Enter…Anahata Grace. In addition to working with Anahata as an Outreach Associate, I am also volunteering to teach a group of elementary school-aged young people through a KidPower summer enrichment program at Amidon Elementary school.

Three classes in, this has proved to be a great learning experience for me as a yoga teacher. The elementary school age is very interesting – they at the point of beginning to develop their full-blown adult egos but also able to slip into present consciousness very easily and able to focus on exactly what they are doing (as long as we don’t do it for too long!). For example, can you imagine in an average studio based adult yoga class, having each one of the students come up and teach the rest of the class a pose? This kept the students entertained for at least a solid 30 minutes last week with the excitement over which yoga pose they got to choose and coming up to the teacher’s mat to guide the class.

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