Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday september 5, 2006 Winnipeg a9 Art of living founder teaches lessons in peace 300 expected at Day Long program by Carol Sanders i n a fast paced stressed out world taking time to Stop and breathe is becoming a lost Art. For 25 years sri sri Ravi Shankar has been reviving it by teaching peo ple the Art of living. This week the founder of the organization whose service projects pro Grams on yoga meditation and stress elimination have benefited 20 million people from All faiths and walks of life visits Winnipeg for the first time to try and help More folks. They re still going to work and to school and running their households but now they re doing it with a smile on their faces said Ruchi Sud a teacher with the Art of living in Winnipeg where around 200 people have Learned it. The people i be talked to said it made such a difference in their lives they want everyone to experience it said Sud. Close to 300 Are expected tomorrow at the Winnipeg convention Centre where Shankar ? who is no relation to the sitar playing Ravi Shankar ? will be teaching. The 50-year-old sri sri which Means respected Shankar from India has degrees in physics and vedic literature said Sud. In 1982, he decided to dedicate his life to bringing people the message of peace she said. We Are peace our very nature is peace every one needs to realize that Shankar said in a prepared statement. The non profit foundation he started has helped new York City firefight ers Cope with Post 9/11 stress Russ Ian police involved in the school hostage taking incident in Breslan mental health workers in Kosovo and people in hotshots around the world. Closer to Home schoolchildren in Winnipeg have taken part in Art of living workshops. This year Young people from the Northern aboriginal handout photo his holiness sri sri Ravi Shankar. Community of Pau Ingrassi went to the Art of living summer Camp for Young leaders in Quebec. Tonight at the Circle of life thunderbird House Shankar will meet with members of the aboriginal Community. He relates so Well to so Many peo ple said Sud. He Speaks to children and they get it. He a addressed Doc tors and they get tomorrow Shankar will be holding a Day Long program from 9 . To 3 . And an evening Celebration from 7 30 to 9 30 . At the convention Centre. Tickets Are $125 and $25 respectively. Call 633-6084 for More information and to Register. The website is big plans for new aquatic Hall of Fame Cuthbert a former Commonwealth by Aldo Santin diving Champion said she hoped a new Hall of Fame and museum would include the head of the aquatic federation of an internet component where the thou Canada said she has big plans for a new Sands of exhibits collected by Baird Over aquatic Hall of Fame and museum and the years could be seen by people with is sorry that it was kicked out of the pan out having to venture to its new Home am Pool. Wherever that happens to be. The pan am Pool is a special place for Cuthbert said she would put together competitors and they loved competing a committee under the federation aus there and wandering the Halls and Admir prices that would develop criteria on How ing the exhibits said Linda Cuthbert Dur a new Home City will be chosen. Ing a Telephone interview from her the committee will develop terms for Toronto Home. We Don to want to see the the Type of partnership wed like to have Hall of Fame die. Its part of our history with another municipality that wants to and legacy. Well find a new Home for House the Hall of Fame she said adding the aquatic Hall of Fame and Muse there is no deadline on when the terms us had been housed in the pan am Pool will be established or when the federa since 1967 but it was forced out of the Tion will seek bids from interested City owned facility at the end of july in municipalities. A dispute with City officials. Vaughan the aquatic federation of Canada is Baird the Halls chairman and ceo said the umbrella organization for the coun it could to afford the changes City offi try a four Pool sporting bodies ? swim vials were demanding including insure Ming diving synchronized swim Ingance and modern Security display cases. And water said he believed the demand was Cuthbert said she expected the Newa ruse by City officials who wanted the location for the Hall would display the gallery space at the Pool for recreation thousands of artefacts in a More coherent Al purposes. Fashion. She also thought that some of tens of thousands of exhibits include the Memorabilia could be packaged ingoing artefacts from local swimming Cham a travelling exhibit that would be taken ions were hurriedly removed from the to Canadian cities that Host National Halls former Home. Aquatic championship events. The exhibits filled both Walls along the Cuthbert said its possible that win pools running track and part of the Nipes would be considered to House Royal gallery a 1999 addition to the Pool revamped Hall and museum but added that was dedicated for the sole purpose City officials would have to agree Toof the aquatic Hall of Fame and Muse abide by whatever terms the search us. Committee develops. 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