Organizations

The following rocking organizations and links may be helpful in finding preexisting community organized classes in your area, information, or receiving donated materials such as yoga mats or books.

Yoga Behind Bars

www.yogabehindbars.com

Yoga Behind Bars is a newly formed non-profit organization in Seattle that offers yoga to prisoners to specifically facilitate therapeutic, conscious human development and decrease recidivism. Our goal is to spread this learning model and to provide a unique opportunity for rehabilitation to those in need through compassion and devotion to the path of yoga.  

Your Own Greatness Affirmed Inc. (Y.O.G.A. Inc.)

www.yogaforyouth.org

Focusing on At-risk and Incarcerated Youth

Sharing and caring for our youth is a very rewarding experience for all of us. We appreciate the opportunity to give something meaningful to these youngsters and support them as the realization of their own greatness is affirmed within themselves. We welcome your involvement and salute your compassion and generosity.
 

Y.O.G.A. Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to establishing Yoga based programs in underserved communities around the world. Maintaining the highest integrity of the ancient and traditional styles of yoga,
 

www.streetyoga.org

Street Yoga is dedicated to bringing yoga to people who lack the means to study yoga in conventional settings such as studios, health clubs and retreat centers. We currently focus on teaching yoga to homeless and at risk young people ages 11-20.

Our volunteers teach free yoga classes at sites offering support to young people who lack reliable housing, who are transitioning through the foster care system, who are struggling with poverty, or who live on the streets.

To learn more about our programs, you can click here.
To learn more about volunteer and other opportunities to help Street Yoga, click here.
 

www.humankindness.org

The Human Kindness Foundation, founded by Bo and Sita Lozoff, is a non-profit organization which stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal spiritual practice.

Besides its internationally respected Prison-Ashram Project, the Foundation sponsors a spiritual community and visitor's center called Kindness House, plus Bo Lozoff's free talks and workshops. Since 1973, Bo has spoken in hundreds of prisons, hospitals, churches, universities and spiritual centers around the globe.

Our catalog features many of Bo's books and tapes (including his well-known classic We're All Doing Time), plus a few special, little-known spiritual gems and classics. 100% of the proceeds go directly to support the work of the Human Kindness Foundation. Donations are always needed and welcomed, and are fully tax-deductible. Most of the items in our catalog are sent free of charge to prisoners, and to anyone else who genuinely can't afford them.

www.living-yoga.org

Living Yoga is a non-profit group of yoga educators whose goal is to offer yoga to populations in recovery, such as people living in incarcerations, with eating disorders or illness. Through greater awareness of one’s breath, alignment and mental focus, yoga provides potential for significant benefit in improving one’s quality of life, body image and self-esteem.

www.yogaoutreach.com

Yoga Outreach is a Canadian charity that promotes healing through volunteer Yoga teachers to people in health care settings, shelters, treatment facilities and correctional institutions who would not otherwise have access to Yoga. Yoga Outreach places volunteer teachers in facilities and supports them with training and ongoing professional workshops, and provides them with equipment and newsletters for their clients.

Other Great Links!

www.youthhorizons.org

www.lineageproject.org

www.prisondharmanetwork.org

www.prisonphoenixtrust.org.uk

www.yifoundation.org

www.jailhouseyoga.com

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