Causes: Health, Health Care

Mission: Yoga Activist is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that offers by-donation trainings on trauma-sensitive and inclusive yoga and provides free guides on best practices in yoga outreach. This organization works between qualified yoga instructors, yoga studios, social service providers, government agencies and communities that have limited or no access to the science of yoga and its use as a self-empowerment tool. Yoga Activist educates yoga instructors on how to share yoga with diverse communities including but not limited to communities experiencing homelessness, trauma survivors, youth, incarcerated communities, and persons with drug and/or alcohol addictions, or mental and/or physical conditions. Finally, Yoga Activist donates mats to yoga outreach programs in need. As part of this mission, Yoga Activist also partners yoga teachers with social service organizations interested in offering yoga programming.

Results: Since 2010, Yoga Activist has impacted more than 2,000 individuals by supporting and coordinating hundreds of yoga outreach classes, training nearly 400 trauma sensitive yoga teachers, and donating over 700 yoga mats to yoga outreach programs around the world.

Target demographics: Communities experiencing homelessness, trauma survivors, youth, incarcerated communities, and persons with drug and/or alcohol addictions, or mental and/or physical conditions.

Geographic areas served: We work in communities that have limited or no access to the science of yoga and its use as a self-empowerment tool.

Programs: Trainings on trauma-sensitive and inclusive yoga, free guides on best practices in yoga outreach, and donates mats to yoga outreach programs in need.