Monday, June 11, 2012

Yoga with the Belugas

Did you know that June 8th is celebrated as World Ocean's Day?  Also, did you know that it is Canada who inaugurated this celebration around the world?

Here in Vancouver, the Vancouver Aquarium hosted the best World Ocean's Day Celebration! They organizing with Ocean Wise (this is the group that advises what fish are good to eat and which are endangered) the first ever Yoga with the Belugas!  And even better yet, this practice was led by none other then Ocean loving surfer-yogi Eoin Finn!

When my husband showed me this event, I immediately latched on and decided that I had no other choice then to fork over the cash and go!  Not only were all of the proceeds going to helping protect our oceans and environment but when will I possibly ever get to have this experience ever again???

Well, it was well worth it!  There were countless times that you would look up and there would be this incredible creature brushing up against the window curiously looking in on us.  It was such a surreal experience to be witness to!

Unfortunately on my way out the door, I grabbed the wrong bag, I grabbed the bag I had unpacked which had only some random things that I did not want for the day!  So of course I showed up with no camera and no video camera, only my iPhone!  Although the quality isn't superb, this clip I captured really caught the essence of the morning.  You could tell there was a connection occurring with our event, the music and  the belugas.  You could see through music what they enjoyed and the music that they didn't understand.  This song seemed to be one of their favourites, in their small entrapment, it looked as though they were dancing!

Enjoy!