{"id":1905,"date":"2016-01-08T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:00:01","slug":"yoga-vote-congressman-tim-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ja\/journal\/yoga-vote-congressman-tim-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Tim Ryan: You Can’t Be a Yogi and Not Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the relationship between yoga and voting? Understanding how our practice can affect social and global change is an important part of the wellness conversation. The first step toward effecting this kind of change is to make your voice heard by exercising your civic right. Election Day<\/a> is Tuesday, November 6. Have you made plans to cast your ballot?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Congressman Tim Ryan<\/a> has been very vocal about his belief in the importance of mindfulness. At a Wanderlust Festival Speakeasy, he delivered some potent information about how we, as mindfulness practitioners can create change in our families,\u00a0our schools and our health care system by supporting the advocates for mindfulness meditation.<\/p>\n

“If we found a technique or mental discipline that increases focus and concentration\u2014that allows your brain to work better\u2014why would we not be for it? What are we going to wait for? We found it, it’s here! It’s now our job to say: ‘Here’s the science, we’re going to get organized, we’re going to vote at the local level, put people on our school board who support this.'”<\/p>\n