Yoga Votes Yoga Video with Kerri Kelly at YogaVotes

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Location: San Francisco, US

Kerri was drawn to yoga in the late 90s after a series of running and sports-related injuries, Kerri quickly discovered the power of yoga, not only as a way to heal her body, but as a spiritual...

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The YogaVotes rally at the Wanderlust Festival in Colorado with Seane Corn, Kerri Kelly, Shiva Rea, MC Yogi, Janet Stone, Rod Stryker, Sianna Sherman, Suzanne Sterling, and Congressman Tim Ryan. With music by DJ Drez, MC Yogi, and Damon the Zen Drummer.

100% of all download proceeds from this video go to Off the Mat and into The World charities.

YogaVotes is a national, nonpartisan campaign to get yogis out to vote in 2012. Awareness, connection, and participation are core elements of yoga on the mat. They happen to be central to our civic life, too, whether that be at the most local level or in this year’s presidential campaign. YogaVotes will encourage the 20 million Americans who practice yoga to take their values into the public sphere and into the voting booth. We will use traditional and cutting edge organizing tools to reach, activate, and encourage these folks to go to the polls on election day—especially in key states where our collective voices will have a noticeable impact.

Tags: Yoga, shiva rea, vote, janet stone, colorado, wanderlust, yoga votes, kerri kelly, seane corn, mc yogi, sianna sherman, suzanne sterling, rod stryker, dj drez, damon, wanderlust festival, off the mat, into the world, world, votes, yogavotes

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Location: San Francisco, US

YogaVotes is a national, nonpartisan campaign to get yogis out to vote in 2012. Awareness, connection, and participation are core elements of yoga on the mat. They happen to be central to our civic life,...

Comments and Questions for the Teacher (15)

blissbabe
I'm not sure how this video even has 3 stars as I haven't seen one positive comment about this video yet. I do have to agree and perhaps it should be taken down. I also recommend MYO and I will make sure to tell them to skip this video! There are SO many great videos On MYO but if they somehow land on this video as their first, I have no doubt it would be their last. It's important to have reviews, both the good and bad.
6 days ago in Seattle, US
mknight
I enjoyed the video - if you don't like certain videos push the off button.
7 months ago in tyler, US
floating-drumbeat
I do notice this and other videos that seem to project an insider-oriented, "statement yoga" kind of trope. Capturing one (or a series) of those "you just had to be there" moments. Well, because I can't be there, as with many of the graffiti-backdropped, speaking-in-tongues kind of videos (which seem to be currently featured on MYO), this one could be a pass (for downloading to do - or do again, for argument's sake, or even just to watch, as a movie).

There is a reason for moving back to basics in yoga. Or else, you just have to be to the next one!
9 months ago in New York City, US
Murasaki
If this video were my first introduction to MYO I would never, ever sign up. I have been doing MYO since 2007, and since this video was released I will no longer recommend the site without an enormous qualification, and references to the truly great teachers I know about. I am beginning to rethink my membership because MYO must be responsible for appropriately guiding the thousands who subscribe, and not falsely lead them to believing that a cult mentality (or uncritical acceptance) is a form of liberty.

The practice and philosophy of yoga have been well documented for thousands of years. It is a solitary discipline, hopefully aided by a responsible master. Think about it (we don't give up thinking in yoga): silence and inner stillness. Is there silence and stillness in this video? Or is there noise and distraction? Since when is noise and distraction yogic or in any way spiritual? Look at those fashionably dressed yogi's! They're, IN, they've got the gadgets, their dreadlocks, their yoga pants, pullovers, mats and bottles...the teachers earn a tidy living out of all this commotion. They shout Siva and think they're spiritual. They're promoting illusion as the real thing.

Frankly spirituality is hard work. It requires years of education, reading the renouned texts from ancient times, both western and eastern; the road to spiritual liberty demands intellegent and well founded commentary on the texts, introspection, personal elation and falling as conditioned responses to stimuli, retun without warning. We fall again and again, year after year. Thousands go through ways and means to spirituality, and never achieve it, although they think they have. Those who think (like the masses following those leaders, and the leaders themselves) that chanting and bending and claiming that universal, uncritical acceptance of whatever nonsense is fashionable, is yogic, they're still lost.

MYO has been irresponsible and although I'm disappointed I'm not surprised. MYO has become too successful to remain untarnished by the vacuous cult of spirituality. After all, there's a tidy living in that, too ($).
10 months ago in Saint-Camille, QC, CA
nbawden
not every video is for everyone - as I am sure you are all aware, you can't please everyone. Just as some people (including myself) do not resonate with this video or agree with the content, there are those that do. Yoga is about acceptance, compassion and non-judgement. If this is not for you, it is not for you. If it is, enjoy it. The freedom is yours to decide which is an amazingly beautiful thing. I am proud of anyone who stands up for what they believe in and makes that information available to others. Peace, love and light.
10 months ago in Oakville, CA
janya
I am a paid subscriber and I think it is productive to have a conversation just like how the teachers in this video suggested. Why play this game of negative opinions should not be expressed and only positive ones are productive? That is a doctrine.
10 months ago in San Jose, US
janya
Just want to point out that I was not attacking nor do I think anyone is attacking anything. Simply stating how I feel. Is that hard to accept?
10 months ago in San Jose, US
strawberry
Agreeing with Dreamstar. Why such an attack? Why so afraid of this? Cult-like?? Ha.
Let others follow their passions and live their dreams; and we should all do the same. We can all have our own beliefs, and we can all co-exist peacefully. We can all talk about what we believe in, and rally around that, or we can keep our beliefs private - but either way - close to our hearts. The more we peel back the layers of fear and cultivate clear perception, the more we can be comfortable with the fact that others may have their own set of beliefs. We can agree with what others say - or not. But we don't need to argue about it or feel threatened by it...When can we just be ourselves and let others be themselves...is that so hard?
10 months ago
Murasaki
This is not "yoga off the mat" it's an indoctrination into a cult mentality that is decidedly anti-yogic. I've noticed something has changed in MYO in recent years. It used to be a simple and informative. It has become more and more a venue for marketing yoga.
about 10 months ago in Saint-Camille, QC, CA
dlilly
@dreamstar: I agree that people should be encouraged to use their voice and be conscious of it, however, voting is the absolute least thing an individual can do. It requires minimal time and effort. Plus that video reeks of a Jim Jones style indoctrination.
about 10 months ago in Warren, US
dreamstar
Not sure what all the hubub is about here. Why are people so upset?
Why shouldn't yoga teachers encourage people to take action?
All they are saying is that people have a voice, and that we should use it - in a conscious way.
Not so threatening. Not so terrible. Yoga is not just about postures in a class, after all.
about 10 months ago in Bruges, BE
dagmarcairns
Different...
about 10 months ago