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Retreat Centers and Education
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA, offers retreats, awide range
of classes, teacher training, vegan meals, and more.
http://www.humilityofmary.org/vmesc.html
Villa Maria Retreat Center, in western Pennsylvania, offers retreats,
a wide variety of classes, ongoing spiritual education for adults, and organic produce in the summers
The Yoga Alliance is an international organization that provides support services
and yoga teacher certification.
Periodicals
The Yoga Journal covers yoga lifestyle, health and yoga, poses, yoga wisdom,
conferences, and other information for the yoga community.
Yogi Times is dedicated to yoga, helath, and a sustainable lifestyle.
Spirituality and Personal Growth
The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness, sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, provides
information, practice, and support for those who want to increase their capacity for love and forgiveness.
A Complaint-Free World is a volunteer organization that provides tools, resources,
and support for those seeking to develop a more positive outlook on life.
Daily OM offers books, music, online courses, and products that nurture the mind,
body, and spirit. They will also email subscribers daily inspirational quotations and passages.
We mention this website because of the 10-week class Oprah Winfrey held with
Eckhart Tolle based on Mr. Tolle's book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. The site has video presentations,
worksheets, and activities to help increase awareness and ability to live in the present.
Living Green
The Environmental Working Group provides a wealth of information about personal
and household products, the relative toxicity of each, and a list of toxins or potentially dangerous ingredients in these
products.
Co-Op America, now called Green America, is a non-profit organization that
publishes the Green Pages, a listing of businesses that are environemtally friendly, and a monthly newletter with information
about living in ways that support our environment and fair trade.
Organinzations That Make a Difference
Six groups that promote children's health, literacy, conservation of rain
forests, animal rescue, food for those in need, and breast cancer awareness and prevention share this unique website.
Visitors to this site can click on buttons on each group's page, and the site's advertiser's will make contributions based
on the number of clicks received. Making this site your home page will help you remember to "Click Daily" and help out
without actually donating your own funds, although the organizations do accept donations.
FINCA, a non-profit organization dedicating to eradicating poverty, provides
financial services, including microloans, to the world's lowest income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets,
and improve their standard of living. Many of these entrepreneurs are women who use the money they borrow, sometimes
as little as $200, to buy the things they need in order to start small businesses and bring their families out of poverty.
Central Asia Institute was founded by an American mountain climber who was recued
and brought back to health by villagers high in the mountains of northern Pakistan. As a way of thanking them, he decided
to raise funds to build a school for the village. He has since funded over 55 schools, several women's vocational
centers, a Sherpa training center, and potable water projects in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. The group's
emphasis is on educating girls and women because after they go away to high school, they return to their villages and
become leaders who help improve the villagers' standard of living and quality of life, whereas the young men who go away often
don't come back home.
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