One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”
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Save the D.C. Healthy Schools Act!
Read on to learn more about this important bill and how you can sign the petition to show your support.
Last year, the DC Health Department found that 43% of students enrolled in city public schools were overweight or obese — one of the highest rates in the nation. On May 4, the DC City Council unanimously passed a groundbreaking piece of legislation called the ‘DC Healthy Schools Act’ to fight this problem. The Act raises nutritional standards, brings fresh, local fruits and vegetables to schools, triples the amount of physical and health education, creates school gardens, and expands school-based health and wellness programs.
The D.C. Healthy Schools Act is a landmark bill that will:
* substantially improve health, wellness, and nutrition in our schools
* raise the nutritional standards and improve the quality of school meals
* bring more fresh, local fruits and vegetables to schools
* triple the amount of and vegetables to schools
* triple the amount of physical and health education by adopting national standards
* create school gardens and support other environmental initiatives
* expand school-based health and wellness programs
* Ensure that low-income students have access to a nutritious breakfast every day
Despite these incredible efforts to grow healthy children, the corporate lobby is fighting to stop this initiative. Coke, Pepsico and Dr. Pepper-Snapple and their super-sized lobby firm the American Beverage Association (ABA) are fighting the means to fund this bill: an additional penny-per-ounce of soda dedicated to healthy schools. ABA has already spent $5.4 million nationwide this year on expensive advertising and backdoor lobbying gimmicks. That’s why we need your help!
The proposed D.C. Healthy Schools Revenue Act would fund this initiative by:
* adding a one-cent-per-ounce tax to sugar-sweetened beverages to fight obesity
* the tax WOULD NOT include diet soda, non-caloric beverages, juices, milk, and water
* the soda tax would be imposed on distributors - NOT our small, local businesses. It would not apply to concentrated syrup, which is primarily sold to restaurants and bars
If you support this bill, sign the petition and share the link with friends! Every signature counts.
Holistic Moms DC: Ayurveda for the Family
Interested in how you can incorporate yoga into your family's life off the mat? This event fits perfectly with lil omm's mission. HMN is a great organization. Check it out and learn more about other HMN activities!
What: Holistic Moms DC June 2010 Meeting
When: Tuesday, June 1, 6:30-8:30 pm
Topic: Ayurveda for the Family
On Tuesday, June 1, the DC Chapter of the Holistic Moms Network will welcome Anne Thiel, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, who will teach us how to incorporate the healing science of Ayurveda into the care of our families.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian healing science that is often considered the “sister science” of yoga. It was developed by “rishis” (seers) through observing the world and human beings around us. Also coined “medicine of nature”, at its core, Ayurveda seeks to teach us how to live in harmony with nature, with its cyclical rhythm, but also with the way nature’s energies manifest in us. Ayurveda captures this manifestation of energies and how it plays out in human beings in the concept of doshas, or constitutional body types. Understanding yours and your child’s body types can go a long way toward preventing illness and furthering health and even happiness. In this session, Anne will discuss the basic tenets of Ayurveda and the three main forms of constitutional body types. She will teach us how to determine our and our childrens’ body types, imbalances that are likely to occur for each type, and how we can be proactive about preventing them.
Anne Thiel is an Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant. She was first formally introduced to Ayurveda in an Ayurveda/Thai Yoga training in 2005 and completed Kripalu’s School of Ayurveda program in 2007. Anne is passionate about the wisdom of this ancient Indian healing science and seeks to help clients identify lifestyle changes that allow them to find more balance and harmony in their lives. Anne has been offering workshops in the DC area for the past few years and also works with clients on a one-to-one basis.
Our "Ayurveda for the Family" meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Park Public Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008. There is street parking in Cleveland Park, and the library is also metro accessible through the Cleveland Park Metro/Red Line.
Kids are welcome!
Share your knowledge, experiences, and questions!
For more information, or to RSVP, email holisticmomsdc@gmail.com.
Also, see our website and blog!
Website: washingtondc.holisticmoms.org
Blog: holisticmomsdc.blogspot.com
Email: holisticmomsdc@gmail.com
Phone: 202-290-1855
Holistic Moms Network National Website
Summer Reading & Seva Series - Join Us!
The first summer reading series took place today, and in honor of that, wanted to remind all of you about this exciting event taking place at lil omm!
How does it work? Like any other book club, we'll discuss each book. But then we'll add a lil omm twist: experiential exercises to deepen the application of the principles in each book to help you truly enlighten and simplify your daily life.
Who will lead the way? Carolyn Butcher, an experienced yoga teacher, facilitator and executive coach will lead the sessions.
What does it cost? $10 for each session, for a great cause. Our summer reading series has a focus - SEVA! Seva in Sanskrit means service. We have chosen Citizen Effect as our charity of choice. All class fees will be donated to Citizen Effect to serve communities in need.
THE LIST & SCHEDULE
June 20, 1:00-3:00pm - The Not So Big Life (Author: Sarah Susanka)
July 25, 1:00-3:00pm - The Happiness Project (Author: Gretchen Rubin)
Aug 15, 1:00-3:00pm - Book: Simplify Your Life with Kids (Author: Elaine St. James)
All titles can be ordered on Amazon.com. Book prices range from $3.88 to $16.95 each.
Enroll at lil omm under "workshops".
Taking Intentions Further
Here's something I read today that make me think about intention. Not just on the yoga mat - but in life, with family, as parents, and even how we approach the small things that take us off-course throughout the day.
Yoga allows us to take time to look to ourselves, and look inward. This reading reminds us that while a big-idea intention is so important ("patience","grace", "openess"), it is also important for us to think about how that translates into each interaction we have, in every situation.
We Are the Decisive Element
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or dehumanized.
If we treat someone as the limited person they think they are, we support their sense of limitation.
If we treat people as who they could be, we help them become all that they are capable of becoming.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stroller Strides
Stroller Strides new summer outdoor classes begin this week! We'll
meet at 9:30am at Turtle Park M/W/F, at Lafayette School in Chevy
Chase on T/TH and at the Zoo on Thursdays. Saturday classes
will alternate between Turtle Park and the Zoo.
Stroller Strides is a fun workout group for parents and children
(babies can be from six weeks up to stroller-sitters (My
3-1/2-year-old loves it)). Drop-in to any class, the first class is
free. Questions? Contact Amanda Marr Book at
amandamarrbook@strollerstrides.net or check out the stroller strides
website: http://www.strollerstrides.com/
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