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“Many Hands, Many Hearts, One Intention”

 

The time to ACT is now!

ACT is a way to encourage people in the yoga and healing community to get ACTively involved in being a positive influence in their community. Seasonal volunteer opportunities are planned around the Kansas City metro area so that we may serve in the true spirit of karma yoga – the yoga of selfless service through action. The healing of the planet begins at home. We can only Awaken Change Together! We must ACT now!
 

 

ACT’s Fall 2007 Karma Crew Project:

Harvesters Needs Our Help

Hunger erodes the body and mind and wears away at our community. Children struggle to concentrate in school. Parents make desperate choices to put food on the table. Seniors compromise their already fragile health. Harvesters is our community’s response to hunger, providing sustenance and hope to those in need.

You can help by joining us to sort food and household goods collected from food drives and donated by the food industry.

Spend an afternoon working side-by-side with other members of the yoga community in the true spirit of karma yoga. Bring friends, family and kids.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

1:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Harvesters Volunteer Center, 3801 Topping Ave., KCMO

Map: http://tinyurl.com/2qovh5

To join this Karma Crew: email Becky Holsen at Becky0303@aol.com

 

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Our Mission

ACT’s intention is to:

  • Direct people to be a positive force for change through their unique contributions, talents, and actions.
  • Foster  a sense of involvement by encouraging people to volunteer and offering various volunteer opportunities monthly to organizations and/or people in need.
  • Awaken in everyone that our personal responsibility should be towards the “establishment of the beloved community.”  (Martin Luther King, Jr.)  A healthy society is a family unit, and everyone has a profound duty to contribute to the higher good of the community.
  • Provide group learning and a positive social activity for everyone involved.
  • Be a unified and positive influence in the community.
     

How ACT works

Each season, several local yoga teachers or students will volunteer to be on the organizing team for that season’s volunteer opportunity. Each team member will research potential volunteer projects around the city, then after sharing findings with the group, the team will agree on which project to pursue.

Projects will typically be held on weekend days, usually only around a 3 hour commitment. Encourage your family and friends to join you – kids are welcome to participate at most events.

Once the project and date have been announced, interested volunteers may sign up to be on the “Karma Crew” for that event. You may decide to volunteer every season or just once; there is no obligation. It's about "being the change we want to see in the world," and being together, united as a community.

  

“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.” 

 ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 

"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world."
~  Anne Frank

 

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
~ Gandhi