{"id":5754,"date":"2005-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/06\/2005-12-06-sri-shuddhaananda-completes-us-tour\/"},"modified":"2005-12-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:00:00","slug":"2005-12-06-sri-shuddhaananda-completes-us-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/06\/2005-12-06-sri-shuddhaananda-completes-us-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Shuddhaananda Completes US Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.babalokenath.org\">www.babalokenath.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PORTLAND, OREGON, USA, December 1, 2005: Lokenath Divine Life Fellowship (LDLF) hosted Sri Shuddhaanandaa Baba&#8217;s semi-annual US tour in October-November, 2005. Baba  brought the ageless wisdom of the Vedas and Yoga to a wide variety of audiences from all levels of society through his Simple Art of Managing  Stress (SAMS). Baba inspired  each audience to honor and appreciate the gift of the body as the vehicle for life and to calm the mind through the transformative powers of the breath and meditation. He spoke to the  homeless; hospitalized mentally ill patients; university, high school &#038;  kindergarten students; city and county employees; church groups; health  clubs; corporate executives; and juvenile detention residents.<\/p>\n<p>After Baba&#8217;s talk, one homeless participant said, &#8220;[T]oday I realized there was hope again!&#8221;  A mental patient commented, &#8220;I felt energy, breath and connectedness to all beings.&#8221; Sixty-five Multnomah County, Oregon, workers have indicated interest in an advanced,  6 hour SAMS workshop.  One juvenile detainee in Portland wrote that the program, will &#8220;help me control my panic anxiety  disorder,&#8221; while another said, &#8220;I now know how to deal with my [depression] .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baba also participated with LDLF officers in procuring and making a donation of boxes to a Seattle community group sending Pakistani Earthquake Relief supplies to survivors. All tour presenter fees are being donated by LDLF to Mercy Corps&#8217; Hurricane and Earthquake Relief Funds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.babalokenath.org PORTLAND, OREGON, USA, December 1, 2005: Lokenath Divine Life Fellowship (LDLF) hosted Sri Shuddhaanandaa Baba&#8217;s semi-annual US tour in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}