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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, 22 April 2010

Every week, Anahata Grace will honor our volunteer teacher experiences through a weekly blog.  This week, Finding Grace volunteer yoga instructor Scott Carson will talk a bit about his experience with teaching elementary school students from the group Kid Power, an organization that provided educational programming for 275 youth from underserved communities in DC.  Remember to check back weekly, as our journey of compassionate action has just begun.

“Sit in a comfortable cross-legged position, and turn your palms down to feel grounded.”

“Grounded!  What did I do?” 

“Grounded, like connected to the earth, not grounded, like in big trouble.  Communicating with, let alone teaching yoga to elementary school kids can be an adventure.”

One thing is for sure, you can’t just walk into a big city elementary school and put 12 or so 8 year olds into their sacred space.  Alexis and I arrive at Harriet Tubman Elementary, and the first thing we encounter is massive clamoring for yoga mats.  Each kid wants to choose their own, and while we start to mutter the words “equanimity” and “non-attachment”, they grab the mats right out of our hands.  So we take them back and have everybody sit down.  The theory is that the quietest gets to choose first.  This usually works, except that once in a while someone is so quiet that they are overlooked.  Then we get to come back to the idea of non-attachment.

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