On The Mat and Beyond A Healing Practice (1)

Lately, there are too many unhappy incidents happened in Malaysia Yoga World. At first, YogaZone (“YZ”) crisis started in Jun/Jul, followed by its Receivership in Aug and declared closure in Sep. Everything just happened too fast within a quarter (Q3 2008).

Now, it happened to yogaloft which should be a luxury yoga center with high end facilities has postponed their official opening due to internal problem and announced temporary closed for renovation. Luckily, they were willing to make a full cash refund to all the affected members with little compensation. So that the members’ hard earn money won’t get burnt again. No matter what is their internal business issue, the most important is none of the yoga friends / consumers being hurt.

There are too many negative chi lately and caused some very upset and disappointed. So, let start some POSITIVE chi now to light up everyone’s new hope. As usual, our nice bloggers here always send me useful information and the event that near to date is “On the Mat and Beyond - A Healing Practice”. This event is about a group of yoga teachers, practitioners, supporters and friends who got together and decided to organize a day of free yoga classes to a special group of people namely:

• the seniors - aged 50 years and above and beginners / first timers to yoga
• the blind and the hearing and speech impaired
• the critically and terminally ill
• stroke patients the physically disabled
• the overweight - BMI of 25 and above
• families and couples/partners

Their objective of this event is “to share their knowledge and skills with the participants so they could take the practice home with them. Through this event they hope to extend love and compassion transcending race and religion, tighten family ties and encourage healthy living.” Sounds great, right?

Due to this is a Charity event, they need some helps from the public for the items below for the event and also the volunteers (teachers and practitioners) on the event day on 4th Jan 2009.

• Yoga mats*
• Yoga blocks*
• Yoga belts*
• Steel chairs*
• Wheelchairs*
• Blankets*
• Bolsters*
• Bottled water
• Food items
• Teachers for advice and consultation on the sequence for the special groups and to lead and assist with the classes
• Sign language translators
• Volunteers on the event day
• Any other contribution i.e. publicity and word of mouth

* These items can be on loan or sponsorship/donation, new or used ones. The sponsored/donated items will be sold to the participants at the end of the event and the collection forwarded to the needy.

Below are the date, time, venue and contact persons and you may surf their website/blog for further details.

Date: 4 January 2009 (Sunday)

Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm

Venue: Main Hall, Ground Floor, Block B, Bakti Siti Hasmah Building, No. 6 Cangkat Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur

Website: http://onthematandbeyond.blogspot.com

Contact Persons: Roslin Mohd Daud +6 012 398 1229 (jeeszer@yahoo.com) OR Indra Widjanarko @ +6 016 361 4888 (indra.widjanarko@gmail.com)

Let start a good cause for year 2009 and have a brighter future in Yoga World Malaysia. CHEERS ^_^