It takes a vision, lots of determination, energy, courage and hard work to start you very own magazine. It is not for the faint hearted but once you got your own publication up and running there are numerous rewards.

One person who took the plunge is Sirrka Wolke, founder and editor of “Tribe Magazine”. You can find it at www.tribemagazine.com.au

Sirrka says: ”I love success and abundance, I just didn’t want to sell-out to get it. There is no point following a path to riches if you are not able to enjoy the riches when you get there. Or the journey itself. Life doesn’t start when… It is now. So I figured I had better be doing something I love today! ”

Sounds like good, yogic advice to follow. We all should take note and take action and live accordingly!

Tribe Magazine is available for free online and offline. To find out more and to get past and current editions, go to: www.tribemagazine.com.au

Here are some of the rewards you get when you have your very own publication:

• you control the content
• you can state your own opinion, use your own ideas, nobody tells you what you can and can’t write
• you don’t need to alter or “water down” your content to please anybody else
• you can counter all the fear mongering and gloom and doom of the main stream press
• you can educate your readers so they gain knowledge to make informed decisions
• you are in a unique position to empower people
• you control the advertising that appears in your magazine, especially on the children’s pages
• you can get your own and other children/teenagers involved in writing and contributing and teach them valuable skills
• you can get direct feedback from you readers and interact with them
• you can build a community around your magazine
• you can grow your content according to what your readers want and the feedback you receive

These are some of the points we covered in our interview today, if you would like to hear more, listen to the show here:

Sirrka has made a special offer to our listeners: You get 20% off your first lot of advertising in Tribe Magazine when you mention that you found Tribe Magazine through our show.

She has also a passion for children being involved in creating the magazine, so there is a special section devoted to children. Contact:

junioreditor (at) tribemagazine.com.au to find out more. (Replace (at) with @ and leave no spaces).

Tribe Magazine has a distribution of 30,000 copies and is distributed around Sydney and the Southern Highlands. It will keep growing and hopefully will go national in the not too distant future. Have a look at the online version I think you will find it interesting.

Sirrka is a woman of many talents and has also written a book “FitKid7 – 7 Simple Steps for a Fit and Healthy Child”. She also created a Cd for Children so they can go to sleep easily. (Adults love it too!). You can find both of them here: www.fitkid7.com

She also started a little service where she sends you an uplifting and motivating SMS daily. You can find more information at the Tribe Magazine website www.tribemagazine.com.au

Till next time

Connie

Your Yoga Partner

from

www.yogainahurry.com

I came across this little movie and really enjoyed it – I hope you will too!

Till next time,

Connie

Your Yoga Partner

from

http://www.yogainahurry.com

Didi Ananda Kalika and Connie

Yesterday I had a meditation session and dinner with a group of friends. A special surprise guest at this dinner was Didi Ananda Kalika. She is a very softly spoken and modest woman who has done an incredible amount of work for homeless children in Mongolia. From very humble beginnings she has created a kindergarten, primary school and homes for 150 children. Being homeless in Mongolia is life threatening as the temperatures in winter plummet to between minus 30 to mimus 40 degrees C.

Didi Ananda Kalika has been working in Mongolia for fifteen years and was made a Member of the Order of Australia on 26th January 2009.

You can find information on Didi and her project below. As with all success stories her work has been underwritten by the support of many. Have a look at her amazing work:

http://www.lotuschild.org

Till next time,

Connie

Your Yoga Partner

from

http://www.yogainahurry.com

For the past 2 weeks Sydney has been celebrating the Chinese New Year.

The Year of the Rat was ushered in in style, with lots of noise, fun, celebration and food. Contrary to what you may think, the Year of the Rat promises to be a good year!

Here in Sydney part of the fun are the Dragon Boat Races in Darling Harbour. A lot of Corporations have Dragon boat teams nowadays – I suppose it keeps the employees fit and builds team spirit.

Today some very different teams were racing – they were all comprised of women, and every single on of these women was a survivor of breast cancer.

They all wore hot pink outfits (some even had pink paddles).

They had come from all over the country to compete in the race and “give a face to breast cancer”, to have fun, stay fit and experience solidarity and camaraderie. There were hundreds and hundreds of women, all ages, all nationalities. The ones who were unable to row supported their teams from the shore.

After the races, there was a flower ceremony. All the dragon boats went back out onto the water and formed one huge raft, the women linking hands. Thousands of pink/red rose petals were thrown into the water to commemorate all the women who had died of breast cancer. Some blue petals were amongst them as well (for the men, who can suffer and die from the disease as well).

The petals were floating on the surface of the water while everybody observed a minute of silence. It was an incredibly moving ceremony.

If you want to find out more go to:

http://www.dragonsabreast.com.au/

Click on the link and watch this video clip – it will brighten your day.

 http://www.blessedunrest.com/video.html