International Day of Yoga

The Brahma Kumaris participated in a number of events to celebrate Yoga Day 2020.

The Meditation Center, a chapter of the Brahma Kumaris in Cinnaminson, NJ,

Yoga for The Future We Want.

celebrated the International Day of Yoga on June 21, 2020, with a conversation between two yogis: the Venerable Bhante Y. Wimala, a spiritual teacher and humanitarian who has been a Buddhist monk for 47 years; and BK Veronica McHugh, Coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris chapters in Florida and a Raja Yoga practitioner and teacher of over 40 years. More than 60 participants joined the celebration, which was hosted on Zoom and streamed live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=556320425038431

Read full report: https://bit.ly/idy2020TMC

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Global Harmony House, NY

In keeping with the June theme of The Heart of Well-Being: Living a Healthier and Happier Life, Brahma Kumaris Global Harmony House, New York, celebrated the United Nations International Day of Yoga by hosting a zoom event on Thursday evening, June 18, entitled, “Inner Alignment: Unity Starts Within Myself.” The guest speaker was Caroline Ward, a gifted guide, teacher, and author who specializes in transitions and transformation and who has studied and taught meditation with the Brahma Kumaris for over twenty years. The author of two books, the Four Faces of Woman and Mi Coraje, Tu Coraje (My Courage, Your Courage), Caroline is an Australian living in Latin America who works across the world facilitating ways in which people may embrace the challenges of changing paradigms. She offered an enchanting weave of fragrant insights on how each of us can find our space of well-being, reminding us that by not choosing a story of resistance, we can face our storms and obstacles with a creative and constructive outlook. One of the highlights of the evening was Caroline’s discussion of “inclusiveness,” a term has that has been co-opted by policy makers and which she effectively brought back to its true meaning, that of belonging. Our respective stories, bodies, and souls are unique, but we are at our best when we are lovingly inclusive. Using poignant anecdotes and lively figurative language, Caroline convinced us all that
bringing our head and heart into alignment, “yoked like oxen,” allows us to meet life’s challenges in a lighter, more transformative way.

-Michelle Schimel

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Costa Rica

Celebration of the Internacional Day of Yoga: The Brahma Kumaris Centers in Central América get together in a special meditation for peace.

The purpose was to unite minds in creating a wave of real love, positive energy and peace for all the world. Connecting with the Supreme Source of Love and with that love in our hearts, we offer solutions from love and not from fear.

Artists and Raja Yoga teachers participated: Balby León from ElSalvador, Anne Bonin from Guatemala, Delia Girón from Honduras, Marcia Avilés, Ligia Casco y Sandra Castro from Nicaragua, and Marcela Chavarría, Marianne Lizana, Johan Solano, Marianela Jiménez, Claudia Lizana from Costa Rica.

The event was opened by Bawa Syed Mubarak, Ambassador of India to Guatemala.