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10-CITY YOGA MONTH HEALTH FESTIVAL TOUR ARRIVES IN LOS ANGELES
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Los Angeles, September 5, 2008 – In conjunction with Yoga Month, the 10-City Yoga Month Health Festival will make a stop in Los Angeles on September 20-21, 2008. Yoga community leaders, yoga enthusiasts, performers, and celebrities will come out to participate in the two-day festival held at Loyola Marymount University. Spearheaded by the Yoga Health Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, all proceeds from the Yoga Month and Yoga Health Festivals will benefit the Youth Health Alliance and health education for underserved children.

The Los Angeles Yoga Month Health Festival is presented by SoyJoy; additional sponsors include Toyota, Equinox Fitness, and Luna. Events and highlights include:

• Yogi Times Party and Benefit Concert: Sat. 9/20 from 6-10pm - Featuring Lili Haydn the "Jimi Hendrix of the violin”, equal parts Kate Bush and Pink Floyd, Neo-Soul R & B Sensation Lina and band, EEDAY and Urban Fire - Crossover Reggae & Dance Hall, and a Dance Party with DJ Dragonfly and rising star MC Yogi.
• Global Mala Sacred Movement and Music: Sunday 9/21 from 1-7pm - 108 yoga studios, thousands of yoga teachers and students, come together for sacred music and movement. The ritual celebration will include 108 Sun Salutations, Meditation, Yoga, Kirtan, Yoga Trance Dance, Paradigm Shifting Speakers, Music and more.
• Over 100 exhibitors introducing the newest products and services including, yoga, healthy and green living products and food; yoga wear super sales - brand name clothing up to 70% off; local yoga studios and teachers; health consultants, chiropractors,  and therapists.
• Kids Yoga Zone - Fun activities for the whole family: Youth Enrichment classes, yoga classes for children and families, health food and nutrition educators, other fun activities for kids of all ages.
• Green Car Pavilion – Toyota will showcase the green mobile that features gadgets, demonstrations, and tips for living a greener existence.  The latest hybrid vehicles may be available for a test drive.
• Celebrity Spa Experience - Free massages, facials, scrubs, and other pampering services delivered by professionals will be available to attendees.

The mission of the Yoga Month Health Festival10-city tour, which also has scheduled dates in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, San Diego, Austin, and Vancouver, is three-fold: Organizers hope to provide an entertaining and educational atmosphere for participants, promote a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle, and to encourage the end of the national health care crisis with holistic health initiatives and education.

“Nature has given us inexpensive, easy to find, and simple tools to assist conventional medicine in addressing our health needs,” said Johannes Fisslinger, founder of the Yoga Health Foundation. “The 2008 Yoga Month Health Festivals will offer holistic alternatives that work and do not cost a lot of money,” Fisslinger stated.

For more information on the Yoga Health Foundation and Yoga Month 09.2008, please visit www.yogamonth.org or contact Vera Alexander at 818-762-4767.

Yoga Month Poised to Make Statement at Democratic National Convention

Denver, CO – August 4, 2008 – Yoga Month 09.2008, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle, kicks off the eve before the Democratic National Convention in Denver with a nonpartisan yoga health festival and benefit concert.

The Yoga Health Foundation, a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization, will officially launch Yoga Month, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle, in Denver on the eve of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).  On August 24 and 25, the Yoga Health Foundation and OmPass, a yoga and health resource company, will produce the Yoga Month Denver Health Festival at the City Park in the Minsuk Cho Architectural Pavilion for Public Discourse.   The festival is nonpartisan and is part of Dialog:City, an event supported by the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee and the City of Denver Office of Cultural Affairs.   

The floating, futuristic Pavilion will house world renowned health and yogaexperts, green and holistic vendors, celebrated medical practitioners and health-conscious politicians during a festival geared toward cultivating awareness, inspiration and an action plan for conquering the health care crisis engulfing the country.   Yoga celebrities Seane Corn, Hemalayaa and Hala Khouri will team up with music sensation Justin Nozuka to raise the national consciousness about health care and the inexpensive and holistic options available to prevent and treat a myriad of illnesses.

The Yoga Month Denver Health Festival will be the first of ten festivals implemented in celebration of Yoga Month by the Yoga Health Foundation.  Additional yoga health festivals will take place in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Austin, Chicago, Boston, Miami and Vancouver.  Proceeds generated by Yoga Month activities will benefit Youth Health Alliance, a charity that provides free yoga inspired enrichment classes to underserved youth and the families that support them.

The Yoga Health Foundation is a 501 c (3) nonprofit located in Los Angeles, CA.  The Yoga Month 09.2008 health initiative is the first of its kind and seeks to bring the benefits of yoga to underserved communities.   The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion designated September as National Yoga Month and lists Yoga Month as an official health observance on Healthfinder.gov.  For more information, please visit www.yogamonth.org or contact Vera at 818-762-4767.

Yoga Month Inspires Community Centers to Host Free Yoga Classes

Denver, CO  - August 2008 - Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA chapters and other community based organizations throughout the country are hosting free yoga classes for kids in honor of Yoga Month 09.2008, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle.  September has been declared National Yoga Month by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and is listed on Healthfinder.gov.

When Johannes Fisslinger founded the Yoga Health Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c (3) organization, he established with it the mission to deliver yoga to the masses in an effort to promote preventative health care.  Yoga Month 09.2008 was authored as a means to honor this mission.

Yoga Month is a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle.  In June, 2008, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion acknowledged the work of the Yoga Health Foundation and declared September National Yoga Month.  Yoga Month is included among the select group of observances listed on Healthfinder.gov.

In celebration of Yoga Month 09.2008, a 10-City Yoga Health Festival Tour will take place across the US and Canada.  The tour will convene August 24-25 on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Denver and will conclude in Vancouver on October 4.  Other festival cities include Miami, New York, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Boston.  The tour will feature nationally acclaimed yoga masters, respected health practitioners, green vendors, and conscious-minded musicians Justin Nozuka and Lili Haydn.  Russell Simmons, Mariel Hemingway, Sheila E, and other celebrated yogis have embraced Yoga Month and will participate in the 10-City Yoga Health Festival Tour.

In addition to the festival tour, Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA chapters, and other community based organizations throughout the country will take part in Yoga Month by hosting free yoga classes for underserved youth.  These classes will be led by Yoga Month Ambassadors and will focus on the importance of the national awareness campaign, the basics of yoga, nutrition, and simple ways to live a healthy and informed lifestyle at home and at school.  Many Yoga Month yoga classes have already been scheduled for implementation in August and September. Additional community organizations interested in hosting free Yoga Month classes should contact Vera Alexander at 818-762-4767.

For more information on the awareness campaign and the festival tour, please visit www.yogamonth.org.

Yoga Community Rallies to End National Health Care Crises

Los Angeles, June 17, 2008 – Leaders within the yoga community throw their support and knowledge of holistic health behind Yoga Month to end the national health care crisis.  Toyota, Equinox Fitness, Luna, Health Magazine, and Vibeholistic have also enlisted in the Yoga Month health revolution.

For decades, the 18 million plus Americans practicing yoga have reaped the rewards of a healthy and vibrant life.  Due to the health care epidemic engulfing the nation, the yoga community is aligning proven holistic techniques with traditional medical practices as it marches toward Yoga Month 09.2008, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle. 

Spearheaded by the Yoga Health Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, Yoga Month 09.2008 will gather yoga industry and health care giants together to take their knowledge of holistic living and its health benefits to mainstream society.  The Yoga Health Foundation stresses health prevention and holistic practices that complement traditional medicine.  Yoga Month 09.2008 is the first initiative of its kind to mobilize the yoga and traditional medical communities to ban together to fight the health care crisis in this country.  

During the month of September, yoga experts, homeopathic specialists, traditional health practitioners and green merchants will participate in Yoga Month’s 10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour.  Hillary Rubin, one of Yoga Month’s featured instructors, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 12 years ago.  Rubin believes she owes her drug and symptom-free existence to yoga and holistic living.  She will highlight her natural regime during the tour.  The festivals will benefit those interested in a lifestyle enhanced by various schools of yoga, informed eating habits, and natural medical remedies often found in household gardens.   These preventative and cost efficient alternatives provide a welcome counterpart to traditional health care.  The festival tour is scheduled for Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, San Diego, Austin, and Vancouver.

To fully realize the potential of Yoga Month 09.2008, the Yoga Health Foundation formed strategic alliances with corporate sponsors to assist in putting an end to the health care crisis.  Toyota, Equinox Fitness, Luna, and Health Magazine are just a few of the many sponsors on board in support of Yoga Month. 

In addition, the Yoga Health Foundation aligned with community outreach partner Vibeholistic to spread the message of Yoga Month in underserved communities.  An empowerment company founded and managed by women, Vibeholistic’s purpose is to serve people of color by providing knowledge in the areas of yoga and holistic health.  In preparation for Yoga Month, Vibeholistic will host a Spa Soiree on June 25th at the Creative Chakra Spa in Marina Del Rey, CA.  The event will bring together celebrated leaders within black and Hispanic communities to organize efforts for Yoga Month in September.   

Johannes Fisslinger, founder of the Yoga Health Foundation, believes the answers to many of the illnesses that maim, weaken, and destroy are found in nature and within the body’s natural ability to heal itself.  According to Johannes, “Nature has given us inexpensive, easy to find, and simple tools to assist traditional medicine in addressing our health needs. Yoga Month health festivals will offer holistic alternatives that work and don’t cost a lot of money.” 

Dr. Carrie Demers, an M.D. who specializes in internal medicine while practicing Ayurveda and homeopathy, agrees with Fisslinger.  “Most diseases are preventable and curable with natural medicines and a healthy lifestyle.  That is the simple truth.  The general population needs access to this information and support for making changes in how to eat, exercise and manage stress.” 

VibeHolistic and Yoga Month Promote Healthy Living to People of Color

Los Angeles –June 16, 2008 – VibeHolistic has teamed up with Yoga Health Foundation to promote healthy living to people of color during Yoga Month 09.2008, an awareness campaign to inspire a healthy and informed lifestyle.  A Spa Soiree on June 25th catering to black and Hispanic leaders will launch the partnership.

The Yoga Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, has partnered with VibeHolistic in an effort to promote holistic living to people of color during Yoga Month 09.2008.  The Yoga Health Foundation stresses health prevention and holistic practices that complement traditional medicine.  With this in mind, VibeHolistic, an empowerment company co-founded by two women of color, is taking the message of preventative and holistic living to ethnic communities throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and New York.

Founded by Kourtney Ketterhagen and Subhadra Bowmen, VibeHolistic’s mission is to provide people of color with knowledge in the areas of yoga and holistic health.  Through empowerment events that take place at beauty salons, barber shops, churches, and community centers, VibeHolistic arms attendees with information that can reform eating habits, sedentary behavior, and negative states of mind.   Highlighting inexpensive and ubiquitous items and techniques, VibeHolistic demonstrates to people of color simple ways to transform their health and, consequently, their lives.

In celebration of Yoga Month and its 10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour in September, VibeHolistic will set up booths at each of the ten festivals.  These booths will highlight healthy and holistic choices widely available within ethnic communities.

In addition, a series of community building events will be hosted by VibeHolistic and the Yoga Health Foundation in an attempt to mobilize people of color to reap the benefits of upcoming Yoga Month activities.  A Spa Soiree on June 25th in Marina Del Rey, CA, will be the first event in this series.  Held at the Creative Chakra Spa, the Spa Soiree will be hosted by hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy and will cater to celebrated leaders within black and Hispanic communities.  Guests will be pampered from head to toe with the latest holistic products, foods, and fitness techniques.  Leaders in attendance will be charged with motivating members of their communities to use these natural products and techniques in preparation for Yoga Month.  According to Johannes Fisslinger, President of the Yoga Health Foundation, “The Spa Soiree and other community building events are wonderful tools to empower leaders to go back to their communities and become agents of change for healthy and informed living.”

Yoga Journal, Omega Institute, and Yogaworks are just a few of the supporters on board to honor VibeHolistic’s community outreach efforts.  

Fab 5 Freddy also stands behind VibeHolistic and views it as, “A new movement that will change the game for those like myself who live the modern urban lifestyle.  VibeHolistic and Yoga Month will show us how to enter the world of healthy, green, and holistic living.”

For more information on the Yoga Health Foundation and Yoga Month 09.2008, please visit www.yogamonth.org or contact Vera Alexander at 818-762-4767.

10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour supports Youth Health Alliance

Los Angeles, May 2, 2008 – Yoga Month 09.2008, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy lifestyle, kicks off its yoga festival tour in support of Youth Health Alliance, a nonprofit that provides free enrichment classes to at-risk youth. Seane Corn, Shiva Rea and Sierra Bender are just a few of the yoga powerhouses appearing on tour in salute of this great cause.

Yoga Month 09.2008, a national awareness campaign to inspire a healthy lifestyle, will donate all proceeds from its 10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour to Youth Health Alliance, a nonprofit that provides free enrichment classes to at-risk youth.

The festival tour kicks off in Miami on August 31 and concludes in Vancouver on October 4. The tour bus will make additional stops in Boston (September 5), New York City (September 7), Chicago (September 10), Denver (September 13-14), Austin (September 17), Los Angeles (September 20-21), San Diego (September 24), and San Francisco (September 27).

Festivals will showcase world renowned yoga experts, free classes, seminars and 100+ exhibitors. Volunteers, business leaders and community activists are encouraged to lend their voices in support of Yoga Month 09.2008 and Youth Health Alliance.

For more information, please call 818-762-4767 or visit www.yogamonth.org .

Yoga Health Foundation announces YOGA MONTH 09.2008 national awareness campaign and 10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour

Los Angeles, Feb. 01, 2008 – The Yoga Health Foundation has announced Yoga Month 09.2008, a grassroots, community-based campaign to educate people about the health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle.

Yoga Month is a year-round campaign and will peak September 2008 with millions of health & socially conscious individuals practicing yoga at thousands of yoga studios, parks and homes around the globe.

The 10 City Yoga Health Festival Tour Sept. 2008 featuring lectures, concerts, yoga mini classes and workshops and exhibit booths will attract 20,000+ consumers and visit yoga-passionate cities like Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Ft. Lauderdale, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Vancouver.

“Yoga has been practiced for the last 5,000 years and transformed into one of the most popular and effective methods to balance body mind, stay flexible, fit and healthy and prevent disease - mainly because it works.”, says Johannes R. Fisslinger, president of the Yoga Health Foundation.

Yoga is attracting North American participants in numbers as high as 20 million. A recent Harris poll revealed that more than 100 million North Americans would like to practice Yoga for its health and fitness benefits.

With many Hollywood celebrities like Gwenyth Paltrow, Madonna, Russell Simmons, Courtney Cox and Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan, Ricky Martin practicing yoga and 27 billion spent in yoga-related products like yoga mats, clothing, DVD's, videos and books even traditional advertisers are paying attention.

The extensive list of current Yoga Month partners include magazines like Fit Yoga, Yoga+ Joyful Living, LA Yoga, Yogi Times, Yoga Journal, Yogamates.com, Whole Life Times, studios like Yogaworks, Exhale, Jiva Mukti, Power Yoga, Dahn Yoga and Bikram Yoga and teachers like Bryan Kest, Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, Shiva Rea, Larry Payne and Nike’s Margo Kellison.

The Yoga Health Foundation, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization registered in California, is supporting health education project for underserved children.

Contact:
Yoga Health Foundation
Phone 310 928 3720
Email media@yogamonth.org

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