Guy Spiro: Mark, I’ve spoken with Johannes Sisslinger about Yoga Month at the national level. Tell us what is going on locally.

Mark Lerro: We have gathered as many prominent community yoga teachers as we can to help with Yoga Month. Yoga Month came to us with a great idea benefiting children, children’s health, and with a concert at the end of the day. So we grabbed the Devi 2000 Thousand Family Band as well as many local teachers from studios around the city. I put the word out to everybody in the area and people rushed in and filled all the slots.

GS: What is the time frame of the event?

ML: Saturday, September 13th, from early in the morning until probably about 9:00 p.m.

GS: Pretty much the whole thing will be going on at Nature Yoga?

ML: Yes, at Second Nature Yoga, our second location, right by the Whole Foods on North Avenue, behind the Whole Foods to the west on Kingsberry. It used to be the Transitions Bookstore Learning Annex. We have landscaped the backyard and it opens up to a beautiful view of the river. There is a nice grass area back there as well as a large deck.

GS: You will have yoga teachers from all the big studios appearing throughout the day.

ML: All through the day we’ll have different workshops. Everything is listed online with the schedule and a small description of the teacher and what they will be doing. You can buy guest passes and come for a single event or there are VIP passes where you can attend the whole day. There are many free sessions as well. You could spend the whole day, head out to the beach for a while, and then come back to a class and catch the concert at night. It is a great opportunity for meeting people, connecting with people and increasing the overall community so that we have a bigger impact on the things that matter to us. This community is very much involved in social change, social justice, health care, health and wellness and expansion of consciousness. These are the things that most of our community gets involved with in their work life, in their studies. Here is a chance for everybody to come together and then use those intentions with one another and increase the ripple effect of this positive conscious movement.

See the Yoga Health Festival ad in this issue for more information.

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