3.5 Million Breaths Come Together at World Festival to Create a Culture of Peace Shalini Parekh - The Huffington Post
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The World Culture Festival 2016 is a celebration of The Art of Living’s 35 years of service, humanity, spirituality and human values. The festival will celebrate the diversity in cultures from across the world while simultaneously highlighting our unity as a human family. (The Art of Living)

If it was reported that 50,000 kids in Mexico were at the brink of the biggest intervention the Mexican government has ever undertaken to turn around hopelessness, despair, addiction and enslavement to a culture of drugs among youth - would that make a compelling headline? Would it perhaps get even a fraction of clicks as dramatic pronouncements from Donald Trump vowing to build a wall along the border of Mexico?

If I brought your attention to the fact that this under-reported intervention in Mexico responsible for saving precious lives is a unique program combining holistic techniques including breathwork - would that grab any eyeballs? Would a media driven culture with an insatiable appetite for the negative or macabre, pause in consideration if a program using breathwork turned around thousands of young lives quagmired in hopelessness?

What would 50,000 Mexican youth have in common with over 30 million people around the world? And why are 3.5 million people coming together to honor and create a culture of peace? The common factor is truly common, but one seldom considered - the BREATH. In 155 countries over 30 million people have experienced the life changing workshops teaching programs that involves breathwork, yoga and wisdom.

The Art of Living Foundation has taught these programs for 35 years and will be celebrating its humanitarian endeavors with a World Culture Festival in New Delhi, India, March 11-13, 2016. Its founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, talking about the upcoming World Culture Festival, where 3.5 million people are expected to attend a first of its kind event, said,"Congregation of good people is enough to convey that negativity can be defeated." Sri Sri's message is simple: "Love and wisdom can prevail over hatred and violence." This message is not just a slogan, but through the AOLF programs it has been translated into action all around the world.

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