October Meeting Summary

At Thursday's meeting we had Joyce, Helen, Susan Anderson, Susan Loftus, and Tijen. We talked about how we can continue to support Martha and Steve, especially when they return to the island. We put information on the Karma Yoga board about the Lotsa Helping Hands site so community members can follow their progress and send messages to them.

We talked about finding a holiday project for the Karma Yoga group and thought Helpline's Project Wishbone would be a helpful and simple place to start. We can put a basket in the studio for donations and a list from Helpline of the items they need for family Thanksgiving meals. Food donations can be delivered to Helpline on November 18 and 19. We also discussed the possibility of adopting a family or families for the winter holidays so that people could bring in items to share with them.

This month's Yoga Journal has an article about "medmobs" which are like flash mobs but with meditation instead of dancing. There is a medmob website people can check out at http://www.medmob.org/ . We thought it would be fun to hold one of these on Bainbridge, possibly at the ferry terminal during commuter times. The events usually consist of one hour of meditation followed by a 10 minute "soundbath" of chanting "om" - how cool would that be? Then we started to get really crazy and thought it would be fun to have a "yogamob" event during school hours on the high school campus.

Lastly, we talked about our hope to do something together as a group. One idea was to bake cookies together (Joyce offered her kitchen) and to share the cookies with the community - perhaps having them available to passersby at the medmob. We'd love to hear more ideas for ways we can work together as a group to help people in our community.

Our next meeting will be November 17 after yoga class at BYH.