TONIGHT–Do Yoga. Save the rainforest.

Here’s a thought: Skip out on the gym, or your regular work out session this evening and do some worldly good with exercise and meditation.  How?  Easy!  This evening at 6:30, at Mercury Hall, you’re invited to attend this year’s annual Changing the World, One Om at a Time.  This year’s beneficiary is The Eco-Entrepreneurship Initiative of the Finca Project.  In one night and one place you get refreshments, food, you get to sample different disciplines of yoga, all while contributing to reforestation, economic development and the future of the youth of Southern Costa Rica.  Talk about being productive.

The Finca Project is a non-profit that I hold very dear to my heart.  Their new efforts with the Eco-Entrepreneurship Initiative aims to equip the youth of Southern Costa Rica with the environmental knowledge and entrepreneurial skills they’ll need to sustainably employ environmentally friendly business practices in the future.

If the rain forest is Mother Earth’s lungs, then we are all dependent on its health.  The EEI hopes to teach the youth in Agua Buena, Costa Rica how to preserve the planet’s health while developing their local economies through fortifying methods.

I have had the honor of working with these amazing youngsters, and I am more than confident that they possess the talents to do remarkable things in their time.  Their appetite and curiosity for knowledge constantly inspired me to become more connected with my environment.  They have the passion, the drive and the talent, we just need to provide the opportunity.

In 2011 the EEI is extending a challenge to the students of its curriculum.  Competing students will use the skills they’ve learned during their coursework to create a business plan they wish to implement in their community.  EEI hopes to award two students with a $5000 grant, provided by donors, to help establish their entrepreneurship.

GOALS OF THE EEI:

• Inspire creative and entrepreneurial thinking in the youth of Southern Costa Rica
• Create businesses that will preserve and nurture the local ecology while producing wealth for their owner and social value for the greater community
• To empower the community to honor its own capacity to create prosperity

I hope you’ll help us meet those goals and be in attendance tonight.  Buy tickets here!

DEETS: Changing the world, one om at a time (March 23, 2010); Mercury Hall (615 Cardinal Ln, 78704); Doors at 5.45P, Event from 6.30-9.30P; $25 (incl food, yoga session and donation) Facebook Event

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