Update!

Dear all,

We had last Monday the first program of the tour. It took place in the Fine arts school of Cartagena - Colombia.  We were lucky to give the realization to little bit more of 100 students.

Today we will head to Quito and tomorrow we will start our programs there.

Here are some pictures of our first presentation:

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Dear all,


There are important changes we would like to announce.

Remember the old colonial theater where we were planning to have the main public program in Quito?

Part of the main stage got damaged and is under restoration. The city decided to change the venue for a more modern bulding, yet very spacious, with about the same capacity of the previous option.

Recently, the yogis were contacted from the administration asking if we have applied for the different permissions which are required by the law in order to have a happening there. From the beginning nobody told the yogis about this new burocratic process and those applications requires more money and time.

 They consist in a permission from the fire department, disaster management department and a third one that we cannot remember at the moment.

As a solution we decided to change the strategy: increase the number of programs, in smaller auditoriums, which are under the care of universities, schools or private sector and they have already applied for those permissions that we were not informed before.

With this solution we will use the money donated by many of you, and keep the target of giving many realizations.

Nevertheless, at the end of the tour we will have a finalcial report with all the details and in case that there is some money left, we assure that it will be use in a future sahaj project.

Additional programs in Colombia:

As many of you know, in order to reach Ecuador, we will travel from Finland through Colombia. There we will have few days of rest before the dinamic tour will take place, starting in Quito - Ecuador.

Anyhow, we will stop by a beautiful city called "Cartagena de indias". With the years the collectivity has been decreasing. We would like to help to boost the energy in the few yogis living there and with the help of the Colombian yogis, we will have a program in that city.

During the colony Cartagena was a very important city for the Spanish crown. All the treasures of  South America, were shipped from this city to Spain.

Mother visited Cartagena before Sahaja Yoga was established in Colombia, due to a diplomatic visit with Her husband. The lady who was in charge to be Her translator, contacted the yogis years ago when she saw a poster of Nirmala, the lady with whom she got a beautiful friendship.

She told many things that happen with Shri Mataji during that visit in 1979, but we recall a happening told by Mother Herself:


"I was surprised when I went to Colombia, I asked them, they had a condor as their emblem for navy, and I said, "How condor is your emblem?" because condor has nothing to do with the navy.

They said, "Our old Indians have told us that a God called Shri Vishnu," just see the name, "came on a condor." And really condor is the conveyance of Vishnu. Can you imagine? I was amazed at this".

Cartagena is the city where the navy has its headquarters in the country.

The same day of our return to Finland, 16 of October, in the capital city of Colombia, called Bogotá, we will held a program for the students , in the Catholic university called Pontificia Javeriana.

Both programs are arranged by the Colombian collective and the money collected for the Ecuador tour is not going to be use for this purpose.

The last but not the least, is our constant request to give us your bandhans and vibratory awareness.

We will travel in two weeks and we will try to keep you updated with all the details.


JAI SHRI MATAJI!

Julia,  Jessica & William
Ecuador Team. 

More help is needed!

Travel to another country and setting up the logistics of a journey to several cities requires money. We are still lacking 1200 dollars to make it possible.

101 dollars which were lacking from the last fund-raising in order to complete the target, plus 1099 dollars that are needed for paying two halls in Cuenca and Guayaquil, as well to help the transportation, food and accommodation for the artists and the translator. The people traveling decided to cover all their expenses from their own pocket, but we are trying that a small percentage could be covered by collective money too. 

In Finland we have been fund-raising inside the collectivity and it hasn't been  enough. That's the reason why we are starting this new request for help. 


In case that the money collected in Finland plus this international fund-raising will exceed the targeted amount, we will donate the money which is left to sahaj projects in Finland. 


Warm regards,




Realize Ecuador tour

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Dear Sahaja yogis and Yoginis,

The big public program will take place the 13th of October and we will arrive the First of October to cover the media interviews, programs at the universities, local organizations and street realizations.

We need a very big bandhan that the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa will accept to have a meeting with us. His secretary has said that there is a possibility in his agenda for 5 minutes.

We would like to thank all your generosity given in vibrations, attention and money. We still have 4% left to reach the goal.

All our love,

Realize Ecuador Tour

Important changes

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Through a Skype meeting which took place during the last weekend, the organizers of the Realize Ecuador decided to change the dates of the tour due to the following factors:

- Five universities of Quito have expressed their willingness in using their main Auditoriums for Sahaja Yoga programs. Many of them told that the dates chosen before (From the end of June till the beginning of July) are difficult for advertising because the students are in their final exams and are heading for holidays. October was a month recommended to us. 

- At the same time we got amazing deals to fly from Helsinki to Colombia and from there, we'll reach Quito much cheaper. These sales will save us lots of money, comparing with the prices for June. 

- The City hall in Quito has availability for October, as the other contacted organizations as the Women's NGO,

 media and schools, among others. 

NEW DATES!

Later on we will confirm on this Blog, the date of the main Public Program in Quito, once the City will provide us 

the details.  But we will have the tour between the 1st - 13th of  October, 2012. 

We will try to keep the main plan to visit the cities of Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil. 

We would like to inform that changes might come and everything depends on the possibilities and eventualities 

that might arise during the planification. 

It is very important for everybody who is working on this Tour, that all of you who have given your generosity in the form of vibrated attention, willingness to join us and monetary donations, can follow step by step what is the situation with the Tour, until it can be  possible to report about the amount of realizations given, all the activities and a detailed expenditure document.  

So far our budget is planificated like this:

-We can use for free the university halls in Quito.

- Because we are a non profit organization, the cost for the City Hall in Quito is 2500 US dollars, instead of the normal cost of 4000 US dollars. Also the City Hall will allow us to advertise in their big banner with Mother's picture and the information of the main program.
We only have to pay 250 US dollars for this. That's a total of: 2750 US dollars. This money is coming from international sources and it's going to be covered by donations from different yogis around the
world.

- The dancers will pay their flight tickets from their own pockets, the original cost was 1400 euros,

now is only 654 euros to Bogotá - Colombia and from there it might cost less than 200 euros. 

- The budget for the staying and transportation between the cities of Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil, plus the payment of the halls in the cities of Cuenca and Guayaquil gives a total of 4.300 euros. This is
being fundraised in Finland. Nevertheless, we are managing different options to reduce this quantity of 4.300 and in case we collect it and less money is used, we will refund it to the general account of SY in Finland for future sahaj projects, as we agreed with the Finnish Council.  

As you can see this is a very big organization which requires lots of help and generosity, there is a big work going on in Quito by the yogis making contacts, involving the government, media and other organizations in order to have a big impact, meanwhile in Finland a group of yoginis and yogis are making different activities such as selling food or cinema nights for the yogis to fundraise the rest of the money. Appart of that, our dancers are practicing very hard due to so many presentations, so they can offer some variety in all the different programs and events we will have. 

All in all, this feels very auspicious and there is lots of joy in this planification, things are flowing and at least we got 3000 views of Realize Ecuador within March and these days of April. 

With all our love,

Yulia (dancer and accountant), Jessica (dancer and arts director), Outi (logistics for Finland) and William (keeps the communication with Ecuador and translator for the tour)  

JAI SHRI MATAJI!

Miracle picture of the Sahasrara puja in Colombia 1988, later Mother mentioned that Her skin had the color of Shri Mahakali. 

 

Pacha Mama

"Now the way we insult our Mother Earth, what we are doing is we are insulting the Adi Shakti.  So many ways there are, we should respect the Mother Earth.  I mean it was in India, the first time, to begin with, when you got up from your bed and you touched the Mother Earth with your feet, you had to say “Oh Mother Earth, please forgive me because I’m touching you with my feet”.  All the movements of Mother Earth are controlled by this inner Kundalini, which is the reflection of Adi Shakti.  The gravity that it has also is the manifestation of the Kundalini of the Mother Earth". Adi Shakti puja 1997

Jaguars, spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys, and plate-billed mountain toucans they all just breathe a little easier because Ecuadorians approve a new constitution in a referendum in 2008 that  grants these threatened animals' habitats with inalienable rights.


The new constitution gives nature the "right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution" and mandates that the government take "precaution and restriction measures in all the activities that can lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of the ecosystems or the permanent alteration of the natural cycles."



Dr. Mario Melo, a lawyer specializing in Environmental Law and Human Rights and an advisor to Fundación Pachamama-Ecuador, said that the new constitution redefines people's relationship with nature by asserting that nature is not just an object to be appropriated and exploited by people, but is rather a rights-bearing entity that should be treated with parity under the law.
"In this sense, the new constitution reflects the traditions of indigenous peoples living in Ecuador, who see nature as a mother and call her by a proper name, Pachamama," said Melo.


No other country has gone as far as Ecuador in proposing to give trees their day in court, according to an Article in Los Angeles Time. 

Chapter: Rights for Nature

Art. 1. Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.

Art. 2. Nature has the right to an integral restoration. This integral restoration is independent of the obligation on natural and juridical persons or the State to indemnify the people and the collectives that depend on the natural systems.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2008/0903/ecuador-constitution-would-grant-inalienable-rights-to-nature

"Now, why we are suffering in this beautiful planet is because we do not respect what we have to respect the most.  Mother Earth is to be respected, meaning what? – meaning that whatever is created on this earth, by the movement of the earth, by the sea, by all the elements, has to be respected.  Today’s problem is pollution, all kinds of things people talk of.  The reason behind it, people never understood the importance of all these five elements, which are supportive of our lives"

Adi Shakti Puja 1997

http://www.amruta.org/1997/05/25/shri-adi-shakti-puja-1997/

Shri Mataji's last visit to Colombia 1994

"Shri Mataji, please make that the sensitivity towards you existing in the collective unconscious of Ecuador, will allow many seekers of the truth to get their reunion with their roots,  the Pachamama inside"

We are at 60% to make all this possible, please don't hesitate with your donations!

"And did those Feet in ancient times..."

Shri Mataji said in Colombia that there is a story in the ancient texts about Shri Vishnu. He got tired after the creation and disappeared from Vaikunta and hid in a secret place to rest. For our surprise we heard from Shri Mataji, that He was hidden in Colombia and Deities have visited this part of the world long time back and surely this land was called with another name.


During those times, there were not the divisions between nations and brothers countries like Ecuador and Colombia were not delimited as such. 

Mother's Feet, Diwali puja 1994.

The Valdivian culture of Ecuador, is one of the most ancient cultures in South America, and in the world. Archaeologists have dated many of their signature "venus" figurines to as early as 3500BC. The artwork of the Valdivia is remarkably well crafted for its time, comparable to later art.

 A huge variety of the Venus figurines have been unearthed, each with its own unique features, tailored to real individuals, with distinctively detailed hairstyles. (source: http://alternativearchaeology.jigsy.com/valdivia)

No doubt they knew about the Goddess-Mother and still She is worshipped there as Pachamama (which literaly means Mother-World) among the indigenous.

when the spanish came and forced the indigenous to take to christianity, a fervor to Mother Mary was developed, even in the actual days. In other words, a transference of the hidden devotion to Goddess was projected to the Mother of Jesus. 

The "Virgen de Quito" (Virgin of Quito) is the most representative figure of the capital city of Ecuador, standing on the moon: an ancient symbol of the Goddess, She is throwing a rope to save the lost souls and even though the snake is a symbol of the devil in the Cristianity, in the aboriginal tribes is very much connected to the Mother archetype.

In the middle of a hill in the city of Quito, "Virgen de Quito" is visible from many places, contrasting with the beauty of the Andean snow mountains.

We pray to Mother, that this ancient devotion to Her will lead the seekers of truth to get their realization. May Her vibrations freed this corner of the left vishudhi of the world.

Puja in Brazil 

We ask your help to make this possible!