Penalver Monastery January 13 2025

This event occurred on 2/1/25 and this recording will be available until 2/8/25.

Zoom Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/3Yj3KLT5RF9R2xnfDWHYRmVIOMLFZ5TT_iFp-GXTSzg7Ad-MyAgJyd69DlnFPqsc.ZFXAMbfyafXI2WrK

Many thanks to all of you who supported this project, to my friend Marta Rodriguez from Spain who suggested I first went there in 1998, to Eduardo Pimentel for encouraging me initially to visit and bring teachers and trainings there, and to the many many folks who have come with us on trips and trainings and shared their hearts and been impacted by the sharings of the Cuban yoga and meditation communities in Habana and Holguin. And those of you who have never been there but have been moved to support these projects and send important medical and material supplies. As one of our participants, Margarita (see foto below) said, it is very touching to know that other people in other lands, whom you have never met, care and share.

If you wish to support this project, please go to http://yogava.org/support or contact our treasurer, Kurt, at <kurt@reisdesign.com> You can send a check or contribute via Zelle. These donations are not tax deductible but each contribution however big or small makes a visible difference in our yoga friends and families lives. Your contributions are the only way we could make this trip happen and besides bringing our yoga communities together, also bringing important medical supplies, clothes, books and food to their communities.
If you wish to go to Cuba, consider going with Altruvistas under the leadership of Malia Everette. If you are visiting Habana, do check out the wonderful apartment where we stayed on this trip

Intentions for the Future:
- support monthly phone accounts via Ding which helps folks access internet and improve their own yoga publicity and story sharing on our site and on theirs.
- fund the completion of an audio visual project initiated by Mary that is a series of interviews of Cubans dealing with challenges creatively and with resilience, with a particular emphasis on the yoga worlds and the ecological and historical arenas.
- support another trip to Cuba where we can bring a 3-4 day retreat as we managed to do this year under the organisational skills of Yoga Va Habana Director Jorge Avila.
- support Cubans to have their own retreats
- continue and develop the relationship with Yoga Alliance, and their staff to support certification of Yoga Va teachers and school.
- encourage the bringing of essential medical and material supplies, also educational resources to support their own trainings
- help inform the yoga and meditation communities about these inspiring practitioners and their stories and encourage a wider compassionate understanding of what is occurring on this island to a larger audience beyond the yoga worlds
- end the blockade!!! ¡Ojala!

Thank you to all of you who made this trip a reality.

Kamal Studio Jan 14 2025

Margarita