{"id":202124,"date":"2020-01-07T04:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/yogis-for-marianne-2020-candidate-draws-150-to-event-days-after-laying-off-staff.html"},"modified":"2020-01-07T04:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T04:19:41","slug":"yogis-for-marianne-2020-candidate-draws-150-to-event-days-after-laying-off-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/yogis-for-marianne-2020-candidate-draws-150-to-event-days-after-laying-off-staff.html","title":{"rendered":"Yogis for Marianne: 2020 claimant draws 150 to eventuality days after laying off staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Election 2020: Williamson speaks about politics and spirituality\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vppids=\"[2451091001,2061157001,1969490001,1969396001,1789065001,1730806001,1403536001,3409614002,2737669002,2736053002,2735595002]\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,svp:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news\/politics\/elections,byline:Joseph Cress,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:PIOC,createDate:2020-01-05T03:15:07.409Z,credit:Joseph Cress, Iowa City Press-Citizen,duration:155000,headline:Marianne Williamson speaks about her story of politics, spirituality,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/68064e34-a6a5-43bc-82ab-3c2e81efd38d\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2817026001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/05\/PDEM\/b30719cd-3684-4b3c-8660-24340fde78ee-200104-Williamson-002.JPG,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2020-01-05T03:24:22.916Z,keywords:Marianne Williamson,Williamson 2020 Presidential Campaign,politics,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/68064e34-a6a5-43bc-82ab-3c2e81efd38d\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:Iowa City Press-Citizen,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/videos\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/01\/05\/marianne-williamson-speaks-her-history-politics-spirituality\/2817026001\/},promoBrief:Hear what Democratic presidential claimant Marianne Williamson pronounced about her credentials with politics and a intersection with spirituality, Jan 4, 2020.,publishDate:2020-01-05T03:24:22.916Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:elections,path:news\/politics\/elections,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:politics,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:elections,topic:elections},tags:[{id:3d80e280-d788-41ab-8897-596539674f5b,name:Marianne Williamson},{id:e1ca15c7-6b5e-4ffe-bb53-28c398fe854b,name:Williamson 2020 Presidential Campaign},{id:1c6892ed-7ea8-4086-82e3-d94bdf758d78,name:politics}],title:Election 2020: Williamson speaks about politics and spirituality,url:\/videos\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/01\/05\/marianne-williamson-speaks-her-history-politics-spirituality\/2817026001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/0cf87_b30719cd-3684-4b3c-8660-24340fde78ee-200104-Williamson-002.JPG\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">IOWA CITY, Ia. \u2014 The initial week of January, Democratic presidential claimant Marianne Williamson <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">laid off her whole debate staff<\/a>, including her staff in Iowa. Just a month before a Iowa caucuses, a pierce was a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Still, on Saturday afternoon, a author and devout beam drew a throng of some-more than 150 people stretched out over yoga mats looking to hear her message.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The organisation had already changed through\u00a0two\u00a0hours of yoga and imagining as Williamson\u00a0began to residence a crowd. While a few rolled adult their mats when she began, Williamson <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">held a immeasurable infancy <\/a>for 45 mins as she wove a summary singular to their common interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The use of yoga\u00a0across a country\u00a0and a ubiquity &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; in daily life is proof, for Williamson, that a organisation she terms a &#8220;spiritual community&#8221; has a lot of power. The problem, she said, is that a community&#8217;s\u00a0drive to improved themselves\u00a0tends\u00a0to pull them from divided from politics.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/ceb0c_1f602a47-7caf-433e-9221-83812a770819-200104-Williamson-001.JPG\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/05\/PDEM\/1f602a47-7caf-433e-9221-83812a770819-200104-Williamson-001.JPG?crop=5615,3159,x0,y285width=1320height=744format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Many people in a devout village didn&#8217;t wish to hear about politics. And many people in a domestic universe didn&#8217;t wish to hear about politics from me or from anyone with a devout perspective,&#8221; Williamson said. &#8220;I was vital in a space of connectivity between a two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Julia Theisen, 58,\u00a0is a co-owner of Dubuque&#8217;s Body and Soul Wellness Center and Spa. She pronounced she felt that\u00a0divide\u00a0until Williamson&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI had avoided going down this route, partly since we never found a claimant that spoke a same denunciation as me, and Marianne does that,\u201d Theisen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Having recently turn a U.S. citizen,\u00a0this cycle will be Theisen&#8217;s initial possibility to congress for a candidate. She pronounced she&#8217;s all in for Williamson &#8220;until a really end, either she&#8217;s boss or not, as prolonged as she is still running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">When asked about Williamson <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">laying off her whole debate staff<\/a>, Theisen pronounced if polling numbers or fundraising reports hadn&#8217;t jarred her support, conjunction would Thursday&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I&#8217;m perplexing so tough not to be meditative about this as a\u00a0traditional race, and so it&#8217;s like Marianne&#8217;s creation good decisions about what she needs to do \u2014 and that&#8217;s one of a decisions right now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So be it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Before Williamson&#8217;s event, 3 of her delinquent organizers who came forward of a eventuality had their &#8220;Marianne Williamson 2020&#8221; signs during <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">an anti-war criticism progressing that day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Having driven hours again for a campaign, they were assured in a merriment of a supporters they found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We trust in miracles,&#8221; Nancy Zak, 59, of Des Moines said. &#8220;That means anything is possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The law is that she&#8217;s a voice of reason during this indicate in time, and she&#8217;s being listened to,&#8221;\u00a0 pronounced Mark Gerstein, 58, of Ames. &#8220;And so let&#8217;s only keep\u00a0our ears open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Zachary Oren Smith writes about government, expansion and development\u00a0for a Press-Citizen. Reach him\u00a0at zsmith@press-citizen.com or 319 -339-7354, and follow him\u00a0on Twitter around @zacharyos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/615014684\/0\/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~Yogis-for-Marianne-candidate-draws-to-event-days-after-laying-off-staff\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Ia. \u2014 The initial week of January, Democratic presidential claimant Marianne Williamson laid off her whole debate staff, including her staff in Iowa. Just a month before a Iowa caucuses, a pierce was a surprise. 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