Sharing My Bubble: Tuning into the Global Field of Systemic Change

When Kevin Jones asked me to “unload” what I am noticing in the field of systemic transformation to a radically better world, I realized that doing it for a broad audience will be quite a challenge. With so much information that is never complete and always changing, it is hard to settle with a particular overview, but let me try. Approach My …

16 Annual International Folk Art Maket

Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 12, 13, & 14, 2019 The opportunity to shop for the world’s finest folk art while experiencing the dynamic diversity of global cultures comes only once a year at the International Folk Art Market Santa Fe, the world’s largest folk art festival. Art and culture lovers will definitely want to be in this acclaimed high-desert …

Lead With Love Summit

Lead with Love is a heart-centered social impact organization committed to shifting the culture from fear to love from the inside out. October 25, 26 & 27 in Aspen, Colorado, USA Register soon to attend this 4-day gathering focusing on Leadership, Well-being, and Service featuring the most inspiring presenters including (John Mackey, Rod Stryker, Lynne Twist, Rudolph Tanzi, Bob Chapman, Ashley …

Re-Generation Festival

Re-Generation festivals are celebrations like no other, they leave the land and people healthier and more abundant than before! The first Re-Generation Festival took place in La Junquera, Spain in Septembre 2018. This event was the ignition of a global movement of regeneration, working together to renew our soils, spirits, and societies. Here is an overview of the celebration in Action: Be …

MY PATH TO YOGA

My entire journey to yoga seems improbable and also inevitable……Karmic Part I: KARMA I was born and raised across the world from yoga in a comfortable suburb of St. Louis, Missouri in the embrace of family and synagogue.  I studied, swam, danced, and taught Sunday school content in my safe bubble where all questions had answers. My mind was blasted …

On The Essence of Yoga – A Conversation with Sasha Markovic

It is a true gift to visit with such an experienced yoga teacher as Sasha, may you find pure inspirations in her words... Emmanuelle: What originally drew you to yoga? Sasha: I did my first yoga class when I was 11. One of our teachers at school was a yoga practitioner and wanted to share it with some of the ...

Certificate of Abandonment to Connect with the World

I was born in Yueyang, China, and left at a bus station where I was found by the police the next day.  As I grew up, my parents taught me about my adoption through books, ensuring my understanding of my birth mother’s probable circumstances, and an adopting family’s process to bring a child home. Despite having been “abandoned,” I often …

Soles with Souls

Most of us buy shoes we don’t need. I must have 6 pairs of flip-flops in my closet, and I know I’m not the only one to store shoes I rarely wear. Remember Imelda Marcos? Her name has become a broader adjective meaning “buying grossly overindulgent numbers of shoes.” But two new shoe companies are trying to make each sale …

Super-Positive About The Future

A non-profit organization, human center, approach to solving poverty with profit presented by iDE Global's CEO, Tim Prewitt: Thinking about markets for the poor — using game theory  Solving poverty is no game, but serious business. However, there’s a benefit to thinking about market systems in the terms of games like poker. Poker, for example, is what economists would consider a “zero-sum ...

Cuba—A Moment In Time

There is a toothless banana seller outside of Vinales, a sleepy hamlet, four hours’ drive west of Havana. The old man’s banana cart sits on the side of a dead-end road, flanked by banana trees and vine-covered limestone towers, known as mogotes. A sign on the cart says, Nunca se es demasiado viejo para el amor—“Never too old for love.” …