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Zuniga, Diana <br /> From: Aarti Kaushal Chopra <consciouseducator@gmail.com> <br /> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 6:05 PM <br /> To: Bacerra, Phil; Ulmer, Anna; Amezcua, Valerie; Phan, Thai; Lopez, Jessie; Hernandez, <br /> Johnathan; Penaloza, David; bvasquez@santa-ana.org; Mills, Susan; eComment <br /> Subject: EXCITING NEWS! City of Irvine issues Int'I Yoga Day Proclamation at Tues 6/24 city <br /> council meeting! <br /> Attachments: IMG_5789jpeg; IMG_5788jpeg; IMG_5939jpeg <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana.Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br /> Hello dear Hon. Mayor Amezcua, Hon. Councilmember Phil Becerra, and all honorable city council members, <br /> I'm following up from my prior email sent last week with GREAT news—the City of Irvine just issued us an "International <br /> Yoga Day Proclamation" (retroactively dated to Yoga Day which is June 21) at their Tues 6/24 city council meeting! This <br /> win was spearheaded by Hon. Councilmember William Go, and unanimously voted yes on by Mayor Larry Agran and all <br /> the remaining city councilmembers,for which our Indian community and Irvine residents are so deeply grateful. <br /> In these difficult times,culture is and needs to be our ultimate unifying strength,and the Indian community humbly <br /> requests our elected city,county,and state officials to recognize yoga as the gift to all who are suffering and need <br /> respite with immediate, mindful solutions rooted in our ancient wisdom"technologies". This would be achieved <br /> through Santa Ana city council issuing an international yoga day proclamation following Irvine's footsteps; I'll be happy <br /> to provide the specific wording shortly in a subsequent follow-up email. <br /> With hundreds of millions of worldwide yoga practitioners and followers,traditional Indian yoga, meditation, and <br /> pranayama breathing techniques are proven to be the best well-being tools with a plethora of scientific <br /> evidence proving innumerable physical and mental health benefits. These mindful practices can be done anywhere <br /> and can never be taken away from anyone, even in the most challenging and distressing of circumstances. <br /> For tens of thousands of Santa Ana residents who derive benefits of practicing yoga in all your community centers,gyms, <br /> and more,we request Santa Ana City Council to recognize and honor this fact by placing this proclamation as an <br /> additional agenda item at this coming Tuesday,July 1 city council's meeting. Even though I'm an Irvine resident, I will be <br /> attending the meeting to give public comment on this item if it's added to the agenda or ends up being a non-agenda <br /> item. I would love to be able to bring others with me also for more public comments if you can confirm agendizing this <br /> proclamation,for which our Indian diaspora community would be so grateful! <br /> I'll follow up shortly with the wording for this Yoga Day proclamation for your ease, please don't hesitate to reach me for <br /> any questions about wording and to confirm that we can place it on the Tuesday July 1 meeting agenda. <br /> Many thanks in advance and warm regards, <br /> Aarti Chopra <br /> Indian American community leader, Irvine <br /> Founder/President, Be Sanskriti Legacy-A Positive Social Impact Organization <br /> 949-202-9986 <br /> ---------- Forwarded message-DC-------- <br /> From:Aarti Kaushal Chopra <consciouseducator@gmail.com> <br /> Date:Thu,Jun 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM <br /> 1 <br />