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“Full Circle- Life Changed Through Yoga” Zoja, Lisa, Lara, Natashalee
Length: 13:56 minutes
OPEN- Black Screen Definition of Sthirakaraman/Caren doing Yoga Explanation Of Now4Youth/Photos from Adaptation
MUSIC: Ravi Shankar/The Pixies-Anna
CLIP Caren Cooper
00:00:38
“It really was just I took the dog for a walk and I had recently just lost 4 grandparents in 18 months so I was kind of thinking of death but not in a negative way they all lived great lives; and I was just walking thinking I want to leave more of a foot print and that’s really how it started and then I thought back to always wanting to work with under privileged at risk youth and by the end of the walk the foundation of what is Now4Youth was basically formed. Another two months cause the only way I can think of raising funds was to do a yogathon which again had already been done and you don’t get as much return as what I wanted. I wanted to make a pretty big impact and then I thought of the coffee table book and I thought of the poses are gorgeous and they have never really lived up to their full potential I don’t think as far as visually and got that part of the idea and just ran with it. All I want from it is for every person who gets trained in the program it’s such a ripple effect of the positive that they will send out and especially because they have to volunteer back into the program they came from they now have the ability to have a positive impact on all those kids now that are going through it.
00:01:50
Black Screen/White Writing
“Two of the models featured in adaptation are Deva Datta and Orlando Batista. Both have overcome incredible obstacles in their lives.”
Music: Ravi Shankar
Played over top of images of Krishna Statues
Black Screen/White Writing
Deva-Datta
“Deva grew up in Windsor Ontario. Due to his difficult upbringing he felt the need to leave home at 14.”
Deva on the ground Chanting
CLIP Deva Datta
00:02:36
“Childhood wasn’t very easy for me it was quite challenging in many ways at school as well as at home. It got to the point that anywhere was better then where I was so I left home when I was about 14 years old. I had maybe $50 in my bank account and I took it with a nap sack with 3 pairs of shorts because it was summer, incredibly naïve and I hitch hiked to Toronto and then I was paranoid my parents were going to find me so I hitch hiked to Vancouver and I stayed in Vancouver for maybe two weeks and I liked Toronto better so I wanted to come back so when I came back to Toronto from Vancouver the summer was kind of a write off in terms of what I could do because it was summer, I could sleep anywhere I could sleep on the streets I could sleep in alleyways parks that kind of stuff it wasn’t hard to survive that way. Although one significant difference between living on the streets now compared to the early 80s you never asked for spare change on the streets back then it was just not something that happened. The other way that I survived by eating was eating out of McDonalds dumpsters they were incredible with throwing good healthy stuff away, healthy stuff I guess is left to your opinion but it was food and it was sustiness. It was more regular for me to eat out of McDonalds dumpster then it was to go in and steal food or something like that from a grocery store.
00:04:24
Deva Detta:
00:04:24
This is one of the places, Yong Street and just basically just north of College. This is one of the places that I actually got to eat the most when I was living on the streets. It was easy cus it was convenient. It was a lot more seedier looking back then, there’s a brand new building up here right now. The garbage’s have changed, they’ve actually upgraded to recycling which is pretty cool. The garbage bins have changed as well. The old ones used to be angled like this and you would have to lift up so to speak and everything was tossed in there together, and now its all nice packaged garbage in nice plastic bags. It was never like that, I used to hang in and grab whatever I could get, and it’s pretty updated which is pretty cool. Its kind of weird being back here, I mean the road is the same way you know with all the crevasses and stuff nothings changed that way. So everything this side of the alley way is there. But it was a lot darker; there was something else on this other side, not this building. So it was easy to hide which what was really nice. Cus living on the streets even though like I said earlier back in those days you didn’t pan handle like we have street kids asking for money and stuff like that these days. Never ever did you ask for things like that? So you didn’t want to get caught necessarily, you kind of knew it was socially incorrect.
00:05:45
00:05:45
I don’t know if your familiar with Evergreen on Yong Street it’s a street hostel place where street kids go and hang out to get support to get a warm meal and stuff. And it was around when I was around on the streets but I never went there because I had one friend who I thought we were going to be best friends forever, and he got involved in drugs. And one day he was there at Evergreen and the next day he was gone. And the talk and the gossip among the kids was that he was kidnapped away for child prostitution and pornography. Covenant house at the time was a house, that was at the corner of Church and Gerard, so they were not the big building or corporation that they are now, back then they were much smaller. Because now they take up a whole city block at Yong and Gerrard right? It’s a street hostile where kids go to get shelter to have a place to stay, to get it together. And back then you would sleep in the living room and it was divided, the guys would sleep in one house and the girls would sleep in another house all together somewhere separate. You know the gym mats you use in school? For gymnastics and stuff like that? The blue ones. You would get one of those each night they would move the furniture around and we would all sleep in the living room together. There was security for safety but um it wasn’t uncommon that there would be someone around who had a knife and they would take whatever jewelry r watches that you had while you were sleeping and hold you at knife point. I’ve had that experience. The protocol was that you would stay there you would sleep. You had two weeks to find employment. And they gave you forms to fill out as you were going out to find employment. So already the process is there to not help you survive. Because they’re trying to monitor what your doing. But who’s going to hire you? Like what person is going to say you’re a street kid I’m going to let you in? When you get a job and you get a steady paycheck, you have to give that paycheck to the people of covenant house. The idea is you have a paycheck to cover fist and last months rent. Then you can get your own apartment then you can move out and you’re on your own. So as that’s happening my friend was saying that he would like to get an apartment together to save the rent. We’ll get a bachelor it wont be so expensive, it all sounded really cool. So the time came when we were looking for an apartment. We saw an apartment but we didn’t want to take the one we were looking at cus it was like rat infested. I mean you kind of get what you can get but we thought we moved a little but up from the streets, lets keep the momentum up. The other aspect was I was trying to get back into high school to finish my high school education. But I had no residence so I couldn’t go back to school like I had no address. It’s the same thing with welfare you have to have an address for you to get welfare. So it was all a whole challenge you have to have somewhere to live before you get the help. So it wasn’t help you know what I mean? So once I had the job and could pay for rent she let me use her address and I started getting welfare then I got myself back to school and I finished my high school education. I started working in restaurants here and there to pay for rent and live my life. I never really got involved in drugs; I never got involved in drugs. Alcohol was fun for escapism. But drugs I knew not to get involved with. I knew it was the beginning of the end if I got involved in that. After I finished high school and started working, I spent about eight or seven years working and it wasn’t enough and I wanted more out of my life.
00:09:45
Introducing Orlando Black Screen
9: 50-9 58 Growing up in a traditional Portuguese family Orlando Baptiste had everything going for him, until a car accident changed his life and started him on a downward spiral.
Broll Of Orlando Baptiste: 10:02
Clip Orlando Baptiste
10:03- 11:06
You Know I did its interesting cause and I have heard that expression before and I know the expression quite well sort a like rebellious. I don’t really know if I rebelled or if I just you know depending on where you lived, depends on the friends you make and all that sort a stuff, you know your peers, not pressure I was never really pressure in my life. There was never anybody telling me do this or do that or um I just through words and my own experience and my own needs I think for my own development I just went on what a lot of people would not consider not a good path, you know and my parents yeah I am sure in there eyes there was a rebellion because it was a extremely painful youth that I had and it was a painful experience for them to go through as well.
Clip Orlando Baptiste
11:08- 11:34
. At first I started with tennis like that whole world kind of protected me and buffered me because I was quite popular in the tennis world because of how good I was and then I really got in a bad car accident when I was 16 and that sort of cracked my whole bubble. It turned my skin out basically. It was a world without any protection and that’s how I started to get into drugs.
Clip Orlando Baptiste
11:35- 12: 18
And you are s f* out of control and you ask what I was chasing, what was I doing. When I stared to smoke crack like 5:00 in the afternoon and it is 4:00 in the morning and I ma by my self and I am on the floor looking for anything that might have dropped and you are looking through the window and on people wondering if anyone is coming and then 4:00 in the morning you run out of stuff and your brain tells you call the dealer and get some more.
Clip Orlando Baptiste 12:16- 12 49
I basically got sober and I got sober through treatment centers and all that stuff. I sort of start there and come backwards a little bit and um you you learn a lot in programs like Alcoholist. You learn all sort of stuff like you know you are an alcoholic for the rest of your life, it’s a disease, blah blah..
There’s all kind of stuff you learn in this sort of 3D world about dysfunction blah blah blah just all that stuff.
Fade to Black
Clip Orlando 12 50- 13 16
I could not be the guy today that’s going to sit down with my kids unless I went through that stuff .In some way, It’s the only way I could have broken that cultural gap in order to get to a place I needed to be a father that’s going to listen to my children when they are sad or when they are afraid or that kind of stuff. The story is not over its not complete of Orlando’s wife.
Black Screen 13: 20- 13 32
Orlando and Deva’s spiritual journey has made them who they are today.
Clip Deva13: 33- 13:34
“I realize I wanted a spiritual life”
Clip Orlando 13: 35 13: 37
I am a whole other guy and its some other way I die
13 38 FADE TO BLACK
Segment: Yoga
Zoya, Lisa, Lara, Natashalee
V/O-: Caren Cooper is a Toronto Yoga teacher who wanted to change some lives. She created a charity called Now 4 Youth to help underprivileged youth get into the wellness field. To raise funds, for the charity she decided to create a book called Adaptation. The book contains models from all walks of life that have been positively impacted by yoga.
Tape 1 Broll: 00:09:21- 00:15:21 Caren and students doing yoga
Tape 1 Broll: 00:15:22-00:25:14- Photos from book, “Adaptation”
Clip 1: Caren Cooper In Cue : 1:00:20:26
Caren- I took the dog for a walk, and I just recently lost 4 grandparents in 18 months. And I was thinking of death, not in a negative way. They all lived great lives and I was just walking and thinking I wanted to make more of a footprint. And that’s really how it started. And they I thought back, I always wanted to work with at risk youth and at the end of the walk, the foundation of what is Now 4 Youth was basically formed. OutCue:00: 50:16
Clip 2: Caren Cooper : In Cue: 1:01:05:29
Caren- “The only way I could think of raising funds was to do a yoga-thon, which again had already been done and you don’t get as much in return, as what I wanted. I wanted to make a really big impact. And then I thought of the coffee table book,
And I thought the poses are gorgeous and they’ve never really been taken to their full potential, I don’t think, as far as visually, and came up with that part of the idea and then came up with the gala, and then just ran with it. “ Outcue: 1:17:23
1:01:20:06- (Cover of ADAPTATION- still image)
Clip 4: Caren Cooper In Cue: 1:01:11
Caren- “But really all I want from it is everyone that gets trained in the program its such a ripple effect of the positive that they will send out and especially because they have to volunteer back at their program that they came from they now have a chance to make a positive impact on all those kids going through it.
V/O- “Deva Detta is one of the models in adaptation. Deva was a homeless teen who was introduced to Yoga while he was still on the streets.”
Tape 2: Broll: 1:21:03- 1:26:11: Deva walking on the Streets
Tape 2: Broll: 1:01:56:07- 1:30:02_ Deva Chanting
Clip 4: Deva Detta: Incue: 1;02:00:18- 1:43:29
“Childhood wasn’t very easy for me, it was quiet challenging in many ways, at school as well as at home. It got to the point where I thought anywhere was better then where I was. So I left home when I was about 14 years old.”
Clip 5: Deva Detta: Incue: 1:44:16
Living on the streets, I had no idea what I was getting into. Like I said I was very naïve in a lot of ways. I knew nothing about homeless shelters, anything. I really just left because anything was better then where I was. Out Cue: 01:02:16
Tape 2: Broll: 1:44:16-1:47:28 : Streets
Tape 2: Broll:01:55:01-1:58:13- Apartment Buildings
Clip 6: Deva 01:02:04-
The summer was kinda a write off in terms of what I could do because it was summer. I could sleep anywhere. I could sleep on the streets, I could sleep in alley ways , parks that kinda stuff you know. It wasn’t hard to survive that way.”
Out Cue: 1:02:16
Broll tape 3:02:40:10- 02:42:16 Deva walking on the streets, visiting his old neighborhood, showing where he used to sleep.)
Clip 7: Deva Incue: 01:02:16
“You don’t really connect with a lot of people on the streets, you actually use each other to survive sort of speak, and you can see it a mile away. So I had that kind of an education while everyone was getting the academic education.” Out Cue: 01:02:27
V/O
Deva spent some months at covenant house ( a half way house for street kids). While he was there he found a job and saved money up enough money to get off the streets. Unfortunately, He ended back on the streets but with the help of a friend he found a place to stay and went back to school to get his high school diploma.
Tape 1: Broll: 1: 02:27-01:01:30_ Deva walking
Tape 1: Broll: 1:02:30-1:02:32- Deva walking
Tape 1: Broll: 01:02:32- 01:02:34- Streets
Tape 1:Broll: 01:02:34-01:02:38- Deva walking
Clip 8: –Deva Incue: 00:42:06:02-00:42:15:00
I spent probably 7-8 years working in the restaurant business. And it wasn’t enough I wanted more out of my life.
Clip 9: Deva Incue: 00:03:03- 00:03:26
I didn’t really find the fullest spiritual avenue until I came to the temple here and that’s when I really found what yoga was truly about in terms of the spiritual aspect of yoga. I was really attracted to what spiritual life was like and I wanted to live in the temple for about a year just to kinda get grounded in the spiritual life so I could come back outside have my job and live the spiritual life outside cause that’s what most people do.
Broll: Tape 3 00:03:11- 00:03:21
V/O
We asked Deva about his relationship with God.
Tape 1: Broll 01:04:56-01:05:00 Deva Praying.
Clip 10: Deva Incue: 00:03:30-00:04:44
Holy Crap Sorry, I’m not going to let anyone hold me back from anything in my life and I know… that the most compassionate person in my life is god…crishna and if he can accept someone like me he can accept anyone. And I know that I want to live my life with that example cause ive seen a lot of crazy stuff and ive seen a lot of crazy people do a lot of crazy stuff to a lot of people but just everyday stuff we can see each other really be disrespectful or hard hearted and I don’t want to live like that and I think that that’s the biggest choice I try to make everyday, is to not be like that.
End of piece fade to black.
Length: 4 minutes and 44 seconds.
PAPER EDIT FOR MAG
Zoya, Lisa, Lara, Natashalee
V/O-: Caren Cooper is a Toronto Yoga teacher who wanted to change some lives. She created a charity called Now 4 Youth to help underprivileged youth get into the wellness field. To raise funds, for the charity she decided to create a book called Adaptation. The book contains models from all walks of life that have been positively impacted by yoga.
Tape 1 Broll: 00:09:21- 00:15:21 Caren and students doing yoga
Tape 1 Broll: 00:15:22-00:25:14- Photos from book, “Adaptation”
Clip 1: Caren Cooper In Cue : 1:00:20:26
Caren- I took the dog for a walk, and I just recently lost 4 grandparents in 18 months. And I was thinking of death, not in a negative way. They all lived great lives and I was just walking and thinking I wanted to make more of a footprint. And that’s really how it started. And they I thought back, I always wanted to work with at risk youth and at the end of the walk, the foundation of what is Now 4 Youth was basically formed. OutCue:00: 50:16
Clip 2: Caren Cooper : In Cue: 1:01:05:29
Caren- “The only way I could think of raising funds was to do a yoga-thon, which again had already been done and you don’t get as much in return, as what I wanted. I wanted to make a really big impact. And then I thought of the coffee table book,
And I thought the poses are gorgeous and they’ve never really been taken to their full potential, I don’t think, as far as visually, and came up with that part of the idea and then came up with the gala, and then just ran with it. “ Outcue: 1:17:23
1:01:20:06- (Cover of ADAPTATION- still image)
Clip 4: Caren Cooper In Cue: 1:01:11
Caren- “But really all I want from it is everyone that gets trained in the program its such a ripple effect of the positive that they will send out and especially because they have to volunteer back at their program that they came from they now have a chance to make a positive impact on all those kids going through it.
V/O- “Deva Detta is one of the models in adaptation. Deva was a homeless teen who was introduced to Yoga while he was still on the streets.”
Tape 2: Broll: 1:21:03- 1:26:11: Deva walking on the Streets
Tape 2: Broll: 1:01:56:07- 1:30:02_ Deva Chanting
Clip 4: Deva Detta: Incue: 1;02:00:18- 1:43:29
“Childhood wasn’t very easy for me, it was quiet challenging in many ways, at school as well as at home. It got to the point where I thought anywhere was better then where I was. So I left home when I was about 14 years old.”
Clip 5: Deva Detta: Incue: 1:44:16
Living on the streets, I had no idea what I was getting into. Like I said I was very naïve in a lot of ways. I knew nothing about homeless shelters, anything. I really just left because anything was better then where I was. Out Cue: 01:02:16
Tape 2: Broll: 1:44:16-1:47:28 : Streets
Tape 2: Broll:01:55:01-1:58:13- Apartment Buildings
Clip 6: Deva 01:02:04-
The summer was kinda a write off in terms of what I could do because it was summer. I could sleep anywhere. I could sleep on the streets, I could sleep in alley ways , parks that kinda stuff you know. It wasn’t hard to survive that way.”
Out Cue: 1:02:16
Broll tape 3:02:40:10- 02:42:16 Deva walking on the streets, visiting his old neighborhood, showing where he used to sleep.)
Clip 7: Deva Incue: 01:02:16
“You don’t really connect with a lot of people on the streets, you actually use each other to survive sort of speak, and you can see it a mile away. So I had that kind of an education while everyone was getting the academic education.” Out Cue: 01:02:27
V/O
Deva spent some months at covenant house ( a half way house for street kids). While he was there he found a job and saved money up enough money to get off the streets. Unfortunately, He ended back on the streets but with the help of a friend he found a place to stay and went back to school to get his high school diploma.
Tape 1: Broll: 1: 02:27-01:01:30_ Deva walking
Tape 1: Broll: 1:02:30-1:02:32- Deva walking
Tape 1: Broll: 01:02:32- 01:02:34- Streets
Tape 1:Broll: 01:02:34-01:02:38- Deva walking
Clip 8: –Deva Incue: 00:42:06:02-00:42:15:00
I spent probably 7-8 years working in the restaurant business. And it wasn’t enough I wanted more out of my life.
Clip 9: Deva Incue: 00:03:03- 00:03:26
I didn’t really find the fullest spiritual avenue until I came to the temple here and that’s when I really found what yoga was truly about in terms of the spiritual aspect of yoga. I was really attracted to what spiritual life was like and I wanted to live in the temple for about a year just to kinda get grounded in the spiritual life so I could come back outside have my job and live the spiritual life outside cause that’s what most people do.
Broll: Tape 3 00:03:11- 00:03:21
V/O
We asked Deva about his relationship with God.
Tape 1: Broll 01:04:56-01:05:00 Deva Praying.
Clip 10: Deva Incue: 00:03:30-00:04:44
Holy Crap Sorry, I’m not going to let anyone hold me back from anything in my life and I know… that the most compassionate person in my life is god…Krishna and if he can accept someone like me he can accept anyone. And I know that I want to live my life with that example.
V/O
Deva decided to be a model in adaptation because he feels that yoga can have a positive influence on the lives of others, like it did for him
B roll: Tape 3: 01:04:16-O1:04:37- Pictures of Deva
Length: 4 minutes and 37 seconds.
