Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 47

COMMUNITY the planet herself. We feel we can control, outsmart, out-do Nature. And Nature cries louder than ever to be heard: I am here. What about global food shortages, floods, droughts, and hurricanes? Like a person with a raging fever to shake off an invasive virus, so too, the planet is feverish, trying to shake off the weight we put on her: the physical toxins we emit in the air, water and food, and the etheric toxins we emit in selfish actions and distorted thoughts. We tend to live disconnected from the whole, thinking somehow we will find the love we seek by wanting more. Yet we are already love. We are already loved. Our mother is calling us to stop, make amends, practice humility, listen to one another and listen to the still, small voice within. When will we reconnect with the beauty we already are, but have forgotten? We are her children. We come from her. We sustain her as she sustains us. We go back to her. She is the mother we all share. Nature’s agitation is not separate from our own. We cannot walk away from it and pretend it is not happening, just as we would not walk away from a person in distress. Yet like participants in a global hit and run, we outpour toxins onto our mother, and keep on going, expecting no consequence for our actions. We are being called to a new kind of action, one that understands that our wealth is global health because we are all connected. Every cell of your body is born on the Earth. She not only runs through your veins, she is the very stuff of which our veins are made. By resting in this undeniable unity, compassion calls us to wise action. As a child of the Earth, as a steward of the land, do you hear the call to give voice in communion with Nature to help protect the life that sustains all? Whether you feel the impulse to open an organic café, apologize to someone, turn your company 100% green, work lovingly with people you judged as bad, tithe your income to protect wildlife, plant trees, save our water systems - whatever it is - that voice is waiting to be heard by you. That voice is Her call, reminding you that you are not alone. We are One Earth Family. In response to the call, we founded the not-forprofit company parvati. org. Our mandate is “Supporting a healthy environment and healthy people so that we have a healthy world”. We are looking for research volunteers to support the success of our first campaign for the newly founded not-forprofit organization www. parvati.org to stop seismic bombing in the Arctic Ocean by big oil companies. Please contact [email protected] if you feel interested. Parvati Devi is the editor-in-chief of Parvati Magazine. In addition to being an internationally acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter, producer and performer, she is a yoga teacher and holistic educator. Having studied yoga and meditation since 1987, Parvati developed her own yoga teaching style called YEMTM Yoga as Energy Medicine. Her current shows, “YIN: Yoga In the Nightclub” and “Natamba” bring forward a conscious energy into the pop mainstream. Her book “Confessions of a Former Yoga Junkie” is a road map to a revolutionary life makeover for sincere spiritual seekers. For more information on Parvati, please visit www.parvati.tv.