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Know your status and be worry-free.  Come to the Medicard Lifestyle Center (Buendia corner Paseo de Roxas, Makati City) on Nov. 23, 2012, between 5 PM and 2 AM, and have your HIV screening test, with bonus tests for Hepatitis B and Syphilis – all for free.  Your information shall be handled with utmost care and confidentiality. For pre-registration, go to  http://tinyurl.com/makatiSEB .

On Sunday, 15 May 2011, the Yoga for Life community will come together to join the world in commemorating the 28th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial at the Glorietta 3 Park in Ayala Center, Makati. Entitled Yoga for Life: Touching Lives , it will be an afternoon that will gather yoga enthusiasts and HIV advocates alike in a candlelit sunset ceremony honoring the lives of people affected by HIV and AIDS. The Yoga for Life community will take the traditional candle lighting ceremony further by making an impact in the way that it knows best - through yoga. Co-founders Charmaine Cu-Unjieng and Paulo Leonido will be joined by the country’s top yoga instructors in leading the community through yoga poses, breathing techniques and guided meditation, to demonstrate how the discipline and community of yoga help those affected by HIV. More importantly, the event aims to unite the community’s energies towards igniting the flames of HIV awareness in the general public. The eve...

Yoga for Life is the first ever community-based yoga class series, specially designed for the needs of people living with HIV, but open as well to others who support them and want to experience the beauty of yoga. For inquiries, you may contact: Charmaine: 0917 540-4247 | charmaine.cuunjieng@gmail.com Paulo: 0917 388-9658 | comradepaw@gmail.com yogaforlife.ph@gmail.com Photos taken by Noel Abelardo http://noelabelardo.multiply.com/photos/album/61/Yoga_For_Life This Heart is Still Beating

www.thisheartisstillbeating.blogspot.com What are HIV and AIDS? • HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus . It is a retrovirus that causes HIV infection. Its entrance into the body lowers the immunity (body defense system) or the ability to fight off disease. • HIV Infection is the successful entry of HIV in the human host, weakening the immune system and leading to a spectrum of diseases. • AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . It is a condition characterized by a combination of signs and symptoms, caused by HIV contracted from another which attacks and weakens the body’s immune system, making the afflicted individual susceptible to other life threatening infection. How does HIV attack the immune system? 1. The human body is protected by the White Blood Cells in the immune system. 2. White Blood Cells in the immune system fight disease and germs for your body. 3. Strong diseases make the body sick, but the white blood cells usually win in the end. 4. HIV i...

www.thisheartisstillbeating.blogspot.com Yoga for life, and living for yoga Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=645944&publicationSubCategoryId=451 Article by: BENT ANTENNA By Audrey N. Carpio (The Philippine Star) Updated January 07, 2011 On the first day back from the holidays, my yoga class was expectedly full with new people and their steely resolve to get on the fitness track. As we stretched out our creaky bones, saturated with Christmas fat, and sweated out the hangovers, I once again thought about what it was about yoga that has made me keep coming back to it throughout the years. I was always a nerd, unathletic and gawky, and in high school I would skip PE classes by managing to always have my period. The competitiveness of team sports didn’t appeal to me, and running like a hamster in the gym was boring and tedious. Discovering yoga was somewhat of a breakthrough in my physical routine, mainly because it wasn’t all about the physi...