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World Yoga Day 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012

For the fifth year running, Heather George and Tony Davis will be organising special Yoga classes as part of World Yoga Day to raise money to support human rights on Sunday 26th February at River Bourne Health Club, Chertsey. They will be joined by local Yoga teachers: Jean-Claude Rawady, Debbie Wherlock, Alex Imbastari and Becky Lennox.

World Yoga Day is a 2 hour Yoga practice from 11am to 1 pm in every time zone around the world thus leading to 24 hours of continuous Yoga. It will start in New Zealand, then cross Australia, Thailand, mainland Asia including Russia and then Scandinavia, the Middle East & Africa and into mainland Europe. As we finish we will hand over to Uruguay. Then classes will spread across South America, Canada and the USA. The final classes will be held in Portland, Oregon.

Photos from World Yoga Day 2011

This year the chosen charity is Reporters without Borders.

defends journalists and media assistants imprisoned or persecuted for doing their job and exposes the mistreatment and torture of them in many countries.
fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom. - gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists.
works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

Reporters Without Borders is present in all five continents through its national branches (in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), its offices in Bangkok, London, New York, Tokyo and Washington, and the more than 140 correspondents it has in other countries. The organisation also works closely with local and regional press freedom groups that are members of the Reporters Without Borders Network, in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Burma, Colombia, Democratic Congo, Eritrea, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Somalia, the United States and Tunisia. Reporters Without Borders is registered as a non-profit organisation and has consultant status at the United Nations, the European Council and the UNESCO. Don’t wait to be deprived of news to stand up and fight for it.

The donations from WYD 2012 will be used for Emergency Desks for journalists. The desks address a wide range of needs and above all intervene in emergencies, providing legal support and financial aid to journalists in need or to their families, helping journalists in danger to find a safe refuge, helping journalists to apply for asylum, and providing material assistance to news media that have problems. It is a central but still little-known component of what Reporters Without Borders does to help journalists and bloggers in difficulty.

To Book

A charge of £12 will be made for the class. To book, please use one of the following options:

Print the booking form and post it with a cheque to the address shown or give it to Heather at a class together with a cheque or cash;
Use BACS to transfer the money to account: sort code 30-94-42, account no: 34906268 using the reference "WYD 2012, Your name";
Use credit card or PayPal using the buttons below. This will incur a booking fee to cover the charges made to use this facility.