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  • Sri Sri Is Emissary Of Peace In Kashmir
    August 15, 2008. Mumbai Mirror
    Amidst violence in the Kashmir over allocation of 40 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has emerged as a goodwill ambassador, trying to connect the Valley and the Jammu region, something that the tedious rounds of all-party meetings being held in the Prime Minister's residence or the North Block have failed to achieve. Read More

  • Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Works To Resolve Land Dispute With Non-Violence
    August 4, 2008. New Indi Press
    Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has appealed for peace in Jammu, where violent protests over the Amarnath land row have taken a communa tone. Read More

  • Sri Sri Inspires Community To Achieve Green Certification
    August 4, 2008. The Economic Times
    ...Clean and Green Hoshiarpur, which draws its inspiration from Art of Living Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has been at the forefront to raise living standards of residents by planting trees and making people aware of the advantages of keeping their colonies neat and clean. Read More

  • Shankar Touts Techniques Towards Happy Life
    July 12, 2008. Seattle Times
    To better handle the stresses of daily life — not to mention getting through this time of economic uncertainty — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar advises a simple starting point. Read More

  • Q&A: A Spiritual Leader's Message towards Peace
    July 10, 2008. Detroit Free Press
    A spiritual leader from India known for his breathing technique and social programs delivered a message of peace to about 1,500 people Wednesday night inside a Warren church. Read More

  • Spiritualist Whose Methods Focus on Breathing, Meditation, Heads to Indy
    July 7, 2008. Indianapolis Star
    Shankar, no relation to the famous sitar player, boils down many of the world's problems to a failure to understand how breathing can help people cope with life's everyday stress. He has taken the message to war zones and prisons and devotees in 140 countries. Read More

  • Breathe in the benefits (PDF)
    June 10, 2008, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana)
    Heidi Parker leads a group of four people in a series of breathing exercises on top of a tarp covering a grassy patch in Happy Hollow Park...Read More

  • One Breath at a time...(PDF)
    June 20, 2008. Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey)
    When Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living Foundation comes to the Raritan Expo Center, Edison, to teach workshops on meditation and yoga July 4 to 6, thousands from across the United States will catch a glimpse of the world-renowned spiritual leader. Read More

  • Sri Sri brokered peace between Raje and Gujjars
    June 1, 2008. ANI News.
    In a significant development spiritual guru and founder of Art Living Guru Sri Sri Ravishankar has brokered peace between warring Gujjars and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundaraje Scindia to find an amicable solution to the long pending problem of reservation. Read More

  • Breathe deeply; Inhale and experience the stress reducing, mind clearing benefits of proper breath control (PDF)
    April 28, 2008. The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
    The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide touts breath control as a good antidote to stress. It says: "Deep abdominal breathing encourages full oxygen exchange - that is, the beneficial trade of incoming oxygen for...Read More

  • Art of preventing farmers' suicides
    Daily News & Analysis. October 30, 2007
    Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar on his visit to a village in crisis-ridden Yavatmal on Monday said India has neglected agriculture sector for a long time, and it was time the country's glory is revived through spiritual and collective action. Read More

  • Simple advice for a complicated world (PDF File)
    August 18, 2007. Los Angeles Times
    Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar sees a better society if we are at peace with ourselves and good to others. A key tool is breathing techniques.... Read More (pdf)

  • Take a deep breath
    July 5, 2007. The Washington Post
    Shankar believes that rhythmic breathing exercises, combined with yoga and meditation, can bring people inner peace, and he has been teaching this formula to millions since he discovered it... Read More

  • New Orleans Mayor gives his team Shankar stress relief
    June 4, 2007. New Orleans City Business
    We are open to review the proposals of his holiness Shankar's for the achievement of harmony, stress management and clarity of mind, the mayor said. Read More

  • Invitation as ambassador of peace by the Government of Iraq
    May 21, 2007. The Times of India
    Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is visiting strife-hit Iraq to spread the message of peace armed with three simple but invaluable weapons: Yoga, meditation and breathing techniques. Read More

  • Sri Sri Ravi Shankar honoured in UK
    May 18, 2007. The Times of India
    The Art of Living Foundation founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was presented with the Mahaveer Award for his peace initiatives and promoting non-violence and universal brotherhood. Read More

  • Spiritual Master Shares Visions of Global Peace
    May 18, 2007. The Times of India
    In his most recent U.S. tour, of which Ithaca was one of six stops, Shankar emphasized the need to create a violence-free, stress-free America. Shankar traveled to Washington D.C., Salt Lake City, Boise, Kansas City and New Orleans before coming to Ithaca. Read More

  • World peace one breath at a time
    April 2, 2007. The Times-Picayune
    The art of living is found in breathing, an activity so automatic and ethereal as to be beneath or beyond description. Read More

  • Spiritual leader makes first visit to Boise
    April 2, 2007. The Idaho Statesman
    Spiritual and humanitarian leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar spread a message of peace with humor to more than 1,200 people at Boise Centre on The Grove Sunday. Read More

  • Guru of calmness shares breathing techniques in Utah
    March 31, 2007. Utah News
    The self-effacing guru said that success is "a smile that nobody can take away from you." Ego, he said, is something we don't need to use all the time, so "give it some rest." And a soul mate, he said, is somebody we can create happiness for, rather than the other way around. Read More

  • Learning Kindness
    March 26, 2007. Washington Times
    ...The Art of Living Foundation encouraged students in grades 3 to 12 to do acts of kindness at home and at school for 30 days in January or February through its Kids for Kids and Teens for Teens human-values education programs. Students from 50 schools nationwide,... Read More (pdf)

  • Art of Living Offers Yoga Breathing Technique to Relieve Stress
    March 22, 2007. KSL Television & Radio, Salt Lake City UT
    Researchers have found stress to be at the root of many problems. Some people believe that avoiding stress could be a simple as breathing. Read More

  • Breathing techniques said to reduce stress. Groups gets city money to teach students
    March 19, 2007. Austin America Statesman
    An engineer at Dell Inc. said it helped him quit smoking. A former airline executive said it took away her migraines. The City of Austin believed in it so much that it gave a $20,000 grant to the nonprofit group that teaches it. Read More

  • Breathe better, live better?
    January 20, 2007. Kansas City Star
    Art of Living has operated in Kansas City for almost 15 years, sponsoring classes on yoga, meditation and stress relief and organizing its 120-or-so members for charity work such as putting together brown-bag lunches for schools in need. Read More


  • Art of Living helps people with HIV
    February 6, 2007. Stabroek News
    The Art of Living Foundation is introducing scientifically proven breathing techniques to persons living with the disease that will build their physiology and resistance to the virus by oxygenating body cells and increasing energy levels.
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  • Stressed paramilitary looks to Art of Living
    January 25, 2007. Indian Express
    Central paramilitary forces will soon be putting their personnel through the Art of Living programme in an effort to mitigate stress, which is being blamed for the growing incidence of suicide and fratricide.
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  • World Peace Prize conferred on Sri Sri (PDF File)
    January 11, 2007. Times of India Pune