I am on my way to Toronto Yoga Conference and looking forward to reconnecting with some teachers and friends like Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Monica Voss and Todd Norian that I haven’t seen in a long time. Also joyfully anticipating meeting up with seasoned and new students as we bring YogaKids Tools for Schools into new classrooms across Canada and teach the ABC’s of YogaKids.

When I am not doing yoga, traveling, sleeping, teaching or relating, I’m generally reading, researching, devising and thinking about new ideas and ways to share yoga with children and adults to make our lives calmer and meaningful.

I wanted to share with you the latest book by one of the most profound living authors today. She is doing what my husband Don and I have talked about for 2 decades but couldn’t or wouldn’t commit to. Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life have changed each of her family members’ lives and hopefully will impact many of ours.

Back to the land, just like many of us crusaded for and lived in the 60’s. The time is now. Make your contribution on whatever level possible - the spectrum of possibilities is huge. Even just having a veggie burger, instead of a 1/4 pounder at Burger King, or saying no to any foods with dyes in their ingredients is a start.

“It’s about trying to eat in a way that makes sense for our bodies and our species,” says Kingsolver, one of my favorite American idols and authors. “The worst thing we can do is raise helpless offspring. Our society is doing that. We’ve convinced ourselves that being able to manage a website is more important than knowing how to grow food or cook it.”

Did you know that “a hamburger from a fast-food chain took more than a dollar’s worth of gasoline to make, so how could it cost only 99 cents? Because we we as taxpayers are paying for it. We must pay attention to the politics of food. The farm bill give enormous subsidies to the growers of corn and soybeans. That’s why junk food is cheap. Vegetables shouldn’t be more expensive.”

Please contact your local, state and federal legislators and let’s get subsidies, grants, and contributions that support our planet; organic farmers, green cars, less consumerism, happier, healthier children and food on tables all over the earth. We can do it. Together.