July 2024

Summer zoom yoga and the topic of Interdependence!

Class Schedule

Saturday, July 27, 7-9 pm Eastern

Join us from the comfort of your own home! We will practice a Kundalini yoga set for Physical and Emotional Cleansing, as well as a meditation. We will finish with a long restorative yoga practice to get you ready for a wonderful night’s sleep!

Fee: $30

Register with HarDarshan & you’ll be sent the zoom link.

919-257-7814. hardarshankhalsa@gmail.com

This class will be recorded in case you can’t make it live and/or want to practice it later!

Register by July 24!

Sacred Words

this month’s wisdom quote

With Independence Day just passed, I wanted to share a bit of a different take: A Declaration of Interdependence. This was presented by the David Suzuki Foundation for the 1992 UN Earth Summit.

Declaration of Interdependence

THIS WE KNOW
We are the earth, through the plants and animals that nourish us.
We are the rains and the oceans that flow through our veins.
We are the breath of the forests of the land, and the plants of the sea.
We are human animals, related to all other life as descendants of the firstborn cell.
We share with these kin a common history, written in our genes.
We share a common present, filled with uncertainty.
And we share a common future, as yet untold.
We humans are but one of thirty million species weaving the thin layer of life enveloping the world.
The stability of communities of living things depends upon this diversity.
Linked in that web, we are interconnected — using, cleansing, sharing and replenishing the fundamental elements of life.
Our home, planet Earth, is finite; all life shares its resources and the energy from the sun, and therefore has limits to growth.
For the first time, we have touched those limits.
When we compromise the air, the water, the soil and the variety of life, we steal from the endless future to serve the fleeting present.

THIS WE BELIEVE
Humans have become so numerous and our tools so powerful that we have driven fellow creatures to extinction, dammed the great rivers, torn down ancient forests, poisoned the earth, rain and wind, and ripped holes in the sky.
Our science has brought pain as well as joy; our comfort is paid for by the suffering of millions.
We are learning from our mistakes, we are mourning our vanished kin, and we now build a new politics of hope.
We respect and uphold the absolute need for clean air, water and soil.
We see that economic activities that benefit the few while shrinking the inheritance of many are wrong.
And since environmental degradation erodes biological capital forever, full ecological and social cost must enter all equations of development.
We are one brief generation in the long march of time; the future is not ours to erase.
So where knowledge is limited, we will remember all those who will walk after us, and err on the side of caution.

THIS WE RESOLVE
All this that we know and believe must now become the foundation of the way we live.
At this turning point in our relationship with Earth, we work for an evolution: from dominance to partnership; from fragmentation to connection; from insecurity, to interdependence.

Sacred Table

this month’s recipe for health and happiness!

Fresh Raspberry Chia Pudding

Ingredients:

2 TB Chia seeds

3/4 cup plant based milk

1 TB maple syrup

1/2 fresh raspberries

Press the raspberries through a sieve with the back of a spoon to release all the juice, with a bowl underneath to catch the juice. Discard the remaining pulp. Add the plant milk, maple syrup and chai seeds to the bowl with the raspberry puree and mix well. Cover and put into the fridge for at least 2 hours, stirring after 30 minutes to avoid lumps. You can also put the pudding into a mason jar and give it a good shake. Overnight is an ideal amount of time to leave it, and then you can have it for breakfast! It should keep for 3-4 days in an airtight container, but you’ll want to eat it before then!