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!