Pint Club" or "PriCla" in Harajuku-Tokyo.


Can you believe this??

This is the instant photo booths insanely popular among young gils "Pint Club" or "PriCla" in Harajuku-Tokyo. 

No wrinkles, eye bags, rejuvenation---with my cousin Junko and niece Marina (15year old)…we had blast---Meggie loved it!!!!



Toyko!


Join Youga Gives Back Annual Day of Global Support


2012
Yoga Gives Back
For the cost of one yoga class, you can change a life.


Thank You Mother India
Yoga Gives Back's 2nd Annual Day of Global Support
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Let's unite again to express our gratitude to Mother India for the gift of YOGA. On this special day, we call upon the karma yoga of all studios and teachers from every discipline of yoga, from every city and country, to join us in supporting women and children in India.
Yoga Gives Back’s programs now directly fund 103 women and children in India with micro loans and educational funds. Together, we can make a difference to positively impact even more lives.
This year, our goal is to raise $50,000! Join us.

There are two ways to get involved:
1. Host a special donation class/event on Saturday, September 29th, 2012. If you cannot host one on this date, please pick a date and let us know.
2. Pledge your donation level and become a "Thank You Mother India" sponsor. Platinum - $2500, Gold - $1000, Silver - $500. Fundraise to your pledged level by inviting your community to your Online Fundraising page, such as Firstgiving, pre-sell tickets to your event, raffle or in many other creative ways.
Level Sponsors will be featured in our press articles, all promotional materials and post TYMI 2012 video!!!


     

From a proud Grandpa and Grandma 'Liesy' Reid

Daughter, Helen, gave birth to baby Ruben at 6.39 pm !  6 pounds 5 ounces.

Helen and Lee arrived at hospital at 5.30 pm and she gave birth an hour later! Helen said she nearly gave birth in their car!

Yoga Buzz Features Yoga Gives Back


Yoga Gives Back

Yoga Gives Back recipients in Tripuranagar, West Bengal

Yoga is big business in the West. In the U.S., more than $6 billion is spent each year on yoga classes, trainings, apparel and accessories. With yoga pants costing close to $100 and drop-in classes up to $20, the economic contrast is stark when compared to India, the land where yoga originated, where around 70 percent of the population lives on under $2 a day, according to the World Bank.

Recognizing an opportunity to mobilize the global yoga community in humble gratitude to India and its people, Kayoko Mitsumatsu, a yogini in Los Angeles, founded Yoga Gives Back (YGB) in 2007. Inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize winning works of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, whose highly successful micro-financing model encourages sustainable financial independence by giving loans to entrepreneurial men and women living in poverty, YGB, supports micro-credit programs in India which lend small loans to women in particular, who have no access to capital. Its motto? “For the cost of one yoga class, you can change a life.”

“As a yoga practitioner, I felt strong sense of blessing to my good health and peace. I wanted to give back to today’s India,” Mitsumatsu explains. “If [a fraction of the money spent on yoga in the US]  is redirected to help the poor in India, we can make a difference.”

YGB is currently sponsors 103 mothers and their children with microloans, according to Mitsumatsu, who has witnessed firsthand how this kind of support truly helps people change their lives. She mentions one woman, Jayashree, a mother of two who she met in 2007 when she received her first loan. “Every year, she has paid back the loan fully, and finally sent her elder son to a medical school. YGB is now funding his education until he graduates and becomes a dentist,” she says.

In order to raise funds, YGB created the annual “Thank You Mother India” campaign, which in 2011 raised $27,000. In addition, there are donation-based classes and “yoga relays” in studios around the country, including a special event tomorrow at the Stella McCartney store in West Hollywood taught by the intrepid YJ.com Challenge Pose blogger Kathryn Budig.  To find out more about this class and other Yoga Gives Back events and how you can get involved, go to the website.