Peoples Yoga Tonight is ON! Brunch Sun & More!

Greetings Detroit and all who grace us here! Feb 18, 2010 - North Corktown HQ, Detroit - I know that we just sent one of these out, but we've had some changes and I wanted to thank everyone who joined us in Eastern Market last night for the FREE screening of FOOD, Inc. Local Foods Resource Guide We had an incredible turn out and great local resources to share. I put together this bare bones Local Foods Resource Guide to hand out at the event and wanted to make it available to everyone. Though this list is FAR from exhaustive I invite you to help expand it and create a living document of the Food Security/Justice Movement in Detroit. Please send Resource Name, Contact Info (Name, Address, Phone, email, website) and a short description of their Local offerings my way. Offers of assistance to co-create this database will be heartily welcomed! People's Yoga is ON! We have been blessed to find an incredible instructor for this evenings People's Yoga session at Spirit of Hope Church (6:30p). Jill Shilling will be joining Angela for this special session. All are welcome and People's Yoga is always donation-based so that people who feel the need for yoga can access yoga whether they have a $10 in their wallet or not. I'm very thankful for Jill and pleased that People's Yoga will carry on through my recovery this week. Here are the details on People's Yoga from my blog. Corktown Community Brunch Excitement about this Sunday's Corktown Community Brunch is building. Please visit the Brunch Minisite and check out our wish list. We would love to bring unused resources from your garage or basement back into circulation. We are also looking for accounting and legal assistance as we organize our Community Kitchen efforts. Please contact me if you are interested in learning more about this project. A Displaced Sweets For Your Sweetie Due to snow the week before Valentines Day our Sweets for Your Sweetie Meetup at Irene's was cancelled. Though slightly out of place post-Valentines, we can all benefit from sweetening it up on occasion. Details on the class are below. If you would like to join us please visit Irene's Meet-up page and RSVP there. Note: We're already excited about March's Spring into Raw Meet-up at Irene's! Detroit Urban Sustainability Training Detroit Urban Sustainability Training - 10 Days in Detroit learning Urban Sustainability from Detroiters living it. Angela and I are pleased to be involved in and to support this exciting grassroots program organized by Kate Devlin of Spirit and Faith Farms. We encourage you to consider the program and spread the word. Sprouts from Detroit Raw Community Farms We've been featuring our friend Carolyn's Detroit-grown Sprouts at many of our classes and events. If you'd like to order some of these amazing sprouts please contact Carolyn to make arrangements. We're pleased to share that you can arrange pick up of flats or bags of spouts at many of our events. Thank You all so much! Thanks again for all the well wishes. I'm feeling better daily. I'm sure that once again, I'm forgetting to add important items to this edition, but I plan to send these out on a more regular basis, so I'll do my best to catch it next time. Angela, Aya and I look forward to seeing you soon. Our blessings to you and yours. In Health, Joy and Liberation, Gregg on behalf of the Detroit Evolution Crew

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Detroit Evolution evolvedetroit evolvedetroit Anyone avail to hang w/Aya & I at our N. Corktown HQ 1-4pm today? Angela has an important meeting. Also need help w/chairs fm last night 41 minutes ago reply evolvedetroit Well, looks like Aya will be walking to his 1st Birthday Party next week. Oh boy! Let the fun begin. 2 hours ago reply evolvedetroit Made a few important updates to http://ping.fm/v6S1M Incld a Local Food Guide & the fact that tnght's Peoples Yoga is ON! Pls RT! 2 hours ago reply evolvedetroit Great turn out for FOOD, Inc. in #EasternMarket last night. Here's the #Detroit Local Food Resource Guide we provided http://ping.fm/NmXHW 4 hours ago reply Join the conversation Detroit Evolution also offers Private Kitchen Classes Personal Chef Service Catering for any sized event Nutritional Counseling Private Yoga & Meditation Instruction Massage & Bodywork Sessions Sustainability Workshops Motivational Presentations Please contact info@detroitevolution.com or call 313.316.1411 for a personalized quote or our hourly rates. We actively pursue trade/bartering and will gladly offer a sliding scale for those in need. Please help us Evolve! Now that we have settled into our new home in N. Corktown we are once again expanding our offerings and events. If you have found value in our work, whether through a tasty hand-crafted lunch, a meaningful yoga class, or one of our awareness raising movie nights, please consider helping us to offset the cost of our offerings. By doing so you'll assist us to lay the foundation for the next phase of our work.

Our Next Brunch is February 21st - The Menu is Coming Soon! Please email to volunteer this month! The Corktown Community Brunch brings friends and neighbors together to prepare healthy all local/organic food for other friends and neighbors. All are welcome and encouraged to inspire and inform discussions of local resilience, food security and environmental and social justice. This donation-based Brunch is offered on the 3rd Sunday of every month. For more information please visit the new Corktown Community Brunch page. Sweets for your Sweetie Friday, February 26th, 6:30-9pm $10 Location: Irene's Myomassology Institute 26061 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48033 Join Chef Angela Newsom at Irene's Myomassology Institute and learn how to make your own raw chocolates and desserts for that special person in your life. (And that special person could be YOU!) We will be preparing a White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake and Chocolate Almond Butter Cups using raw cacao. Raw cacao has many health benefits including: Antioxidants - Raw cacao has more antioxidants than any food including blueberries, red wine and green tea! In fact, it has 4 times as many antioxidants than found in green tea! Neurotransmitters - Raw cacao raises the level of seretonin in the brain, acting as a natural antidepressant! Essential Minerals - Raw cacao is rich in essential minerals like magnesium and sulfur, great for building strong bones, a strong heart and beautiful hair! This class is part of Irene's ongoing Veggie Meet-ups. To save your space in this class please RSVP through meet-up.com

Detroit Evolution Yoga sessions are always dedicated to the health, joy and liberation of all beings. Special attention is paid to the act of practicing yoga in Detroit and sharing the personal change achieved in yoga with change in the community. Our classes are taught specifically for the students in attendance. Yoga is first and foremost about the breath and does not refer to our experience or physical flexibility. We strive to find common ground and practice from that point. This practice will benefit those new to yoga and seasoned veterans. Gregg Newsom has studied and practiced yoga since 1994. In 2004, he began to teach at yoga studios and medical centers across the Metro Detroit area. Though teaching many and varied styles of yoga his personal practice is Ashtanga. In 2006, Gregg traveled to Mysore, India to study with Ashtanga guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His time in India enhanced his connection to the traditional practice of yoga and he strives to share this with all of his students. He's also been blessed to practice and study with Maju Jois, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Tim Miller and R. Sharath Rangaswamy. Wednesdays: Temple Yoga with Gregg Every Wednesday, 7:15 - 8:15p - $12 walk-in Location: Bharatiya Temple 6850 Adams Road, Troy, Michigan 48098 Thursdays: People's Yoga with Gregg Every Thursday, 6:30 - 7:30p - Suggested Donation $10 Location: Spirit of Hope Church 1519 Martin Luther King, Detroit 48208 Evolutionary Yoga returns to Detroit thanks to the Spirit of Hope Church and all of our dedicated students who have continued to support and encourage our efforts to share yoga in Detroit. NOTE THIS CHANGE: Please park on MLK and ring the front door to enter. We will be practicing in the 3rd floor gym. Please give yourself extra time if you are new to this location. Call 313.316.1411 if you need assistance. There is no entry after 6:30p. Dress in layers or bring blankets for the pranayama (breath & meditation) that concludes our session. These secrets of yoga are within the hearts of everyone. ~Yoga Rahasya III.29

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Dr. Douglas Graham comes to Michigan! Friday Night, February 19, 7pm-10pm and Saturday, February 20, 9am-5pm Friday, Your Health Nutrition, and Fitness Questions Answered. Cost $25 in advance. This night's focus will be on you. So bring your health, nutrition, and fitness questions to this personally motivating event! No matter what diet you are eating, or what aspect of your life you seek to improve, Dr. Graham will be there for you. Saturday, Illuminating the Era of Raw Foods. Cost $125 until January 15; $199 January 16-February 19. Learn the pitfalls of the raw diet, how to avoid them and discover many of the current fallacies that keep you from achieving optimal health. A buffet lunch is included in this all-day event. For more details please see http://livingyoganow.com/events/index.html or contact Ellen Livingston at 734-995-0875 Dr. Douglas Graham, world-renowned raw food authority and fitness trainer, and author of The 80/10/10 Diet will be giving a rare appearance in S.E. Michigan (Livonia), sponsored by Living Yoga. US Social Forum Detroit, June 22-26, 2010 The US Social Forum is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country, and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world. The purpose of the USSF is to effectively and affirmatively articulate the values and strategies of a growing and vibrant movement for justice in the United States. Those who build towards and participate in the USSF are no longer interested in simply stating what social justice movements “stand-against,” rather we see ourselves as part of new movements that reach beyond national borders, that practice democracy at all levels, and understand that neo-liberalism abroad and here in the US is not the solution. The USSF provides a first major step towards such articulation of what we stand for.

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