I signed on to be a part of a fundraiser that my good friend Lisa Rueff put together, here in Mill Valley (my hood and home of the awesome Twitter feed MVAsswholes, not that I have anything to do with it). It’s called Collective Hearts for Haiti. (Aww.)
Now y’all know that I normally do not wax poetic about yoga events, but this one is for a really good cause. Lisa is single-handedly spearheading a charity effort to build an orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti — a town that was hard-hit in the 2010 earthquake and has an inordinate number of kids in dire need.
I was actually inspired to write about it for Elephant Journal.
The second of the two fundraising events is happening on Sunday, June 5th. It will entail me doing yoga for about 3 hours with my good friend Christy Brown and 13 other local teachers. I went to the first event. It was surprisingly awesome. If you want to sign up, I bet you still can. When you sign up to be a student, you’re on the hook to raise at least $125. The key is that there are so many students attending that, in the end, Lisa hopes to raise like $250,000. Yes, that’s right, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Your every 20-spot counts! So if you don’t want to sign up to raise money and come to the event, please do consider contributing in my name. Pretty please? I’ve already raised $125, but I want to be an overachiever. I’m not above groveling. It’s really easy to contribute. You basically just push a Paypal button on this page:
If you decide to join me on June 5th, there will be cupcakes.
