HELP SPREAD THE NEWS ABOUT YOGA AND THE CAMPAIGN TOWARDS A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE!

If you have a yoga studio, are a yoga teacher or a yoga practitioner, a community leader, interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, a music artist, or want to be part of the media campaign, there is something in Yoga Month 09.2008 for you.

WHAT IS YOGA MONTH?

Yoga Month is a grassroots, community-based global campaign to educate people about the health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle.

Yoga Month is a year-round campaign and will peak Sept. 2008 with millions of health & social conscious individuals practicing yoga at thousands of yoga studios and homes around the world.

Its mission is to serve the yoga community through its awareness campaign and to support outstanding inspirational community leaders and projects.

The Yoga Month campaign is produced and administered by the Yoga Health Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 charity registered in the State of California. Proceeds will benefit yoga health related community projects like Yoga in Schools, Yoga-in-prison through its Yoga Month Challenge.

WHY YOGA MONTH 09.2008?

The world has become one filled with unhealthy lifestyles. How many people do you know who have no form of exercise at all and lead very sedentary lives? Are your own children becoming couch potatoes and prefer to sit in front of a computer rather than engage in sports?

The organizers of Yoga Month 09.2008 gave the explanation below. While the facts apply to the United States, I believe that this health situation very much applies to many of us in this part of the world (Asia) as well:

• Today, more than 70 million Americans suffer from one or more types of cardiovascular disease with an annual cost of nearly $400 billion.
• Arthritis is the nation’s leading cause of disability. 46 million Americans have doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Arthritis costs the economy $86 billion a year.
• According to the American Heart Association, high blood pressure and its complications are expected to cost the U.S. $66.4 billion in 2007.
• Back pain costs Americans around $15 billion per year in medical care and disability payments.
• The annual direct health care cost of asthma is approximately $11.5 billion; indirect costs (e.g. lost productivity) add another $4.6 billion, for a total of $16.1 billion dollars.
• According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), repetitive strain injuries, including carpal tunnel, are the nation’s most costly occupational health problems, with a price tag of more than $20 billion a year in workers compensation.

HOW CAN YOU BE PART OF YOGA MONTH 09.2008?

You can join in many ways.

1. If you have a yoga studio or teach yoga, click HERE.

2. If you are a community leader who believes in yoga’s benefits towards a healthier lifestyle and wish to spread the word, click HERE.

3. If you are a yoga practitioner like me and wish to add your name to this campaign, click HERE.

4. If you want to be a media partner, download the media kit, post a banner on your blog or website, or post an announcement, click HERE.

5. If you wish to be a corporate sponsor, click HERE.

6. If you are a music artist and wish to compose music to inspire people towards a healthier lifestyle with it, you can send in your musical entry, join the contest and win.

The winner of the Yoga Month 09.2008 Music Contest will experience the following:

• perform at a Yoga Health Festival September 2008
• national recognition including a press release and media appearances
• promotion of songs at conscious music download site www.omstream.com.

For details, click HERE.

7. And you can simply help by submitting a Yoga Health Community Project and possibly win –

• Free 5-Day Intensive Leadership Training
• Grants from the Yoga Health Foundation
• Publicity and support for your project
• An appearance in our national Yoga Health TV show

For details, click HERE.

Turn your PASSION into ACTION. And help more people become healthier….

Namaste!