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sharing the love
Street Yoga Happenings - Seattle Branch, February 2011
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In This Issue
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Introductory Note
Teaching Opportunities
Upcoming Events and Seattle Teacher Training
Opportunity to Serve on Seattle's Executive Committee
Other Ways to Support the Seattle Branch
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Dear Street Yoga Seattle Community,
I am continually in awe of our community -- the teachers who donate their time to work with the youth served by Street Yoga, our partner sites that work hard at meeting their clients' multiple needs, the community memebrs who share their expertise and provide ongoing training at our monthly potlucks, the businesses and individals who support our work financially, the volunteers who donate their time and skills...
We're all in this together. As Martin Luther King said, "What affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be."
In that spirit of interconnectedness, we are called to put our love and compassion into action. Especially in difficult economic times such as these, when social service sites experience an increased demand for shelter, food, and other support services, it is imperative that all members of our community feel loved and cared for. A recent Seattle Times article reported that the "stress of being homeless can sometimes render people unable to function at a basic level." This is what we are working to heal through Street Yoga. Working to support our community, especially its most vulnerable members, in healing is an act of great love.
Thank you for sharing that love, and, in doing so, making our community stronger.
With warm wishes,
Stephanie Toby, Seattle Director of Operations
and the rest of Street Yoga
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Exciting Teaching Opportunities in Seattle!
If you are interested in any of these, please email me at stephanie@streetyoga.org
Spruce Street
We will have an opening for someone to teach every other week at Spruce Street, starting in April.
Details:
- Spruce Street is a secure crisis center for runaway and street-involved youth, and is operated by Pioneer Human Services. They provide temporary housing and support services for up to 14 days. More information can be found here.
- The classes currently takes place on Wednesdays from 5-6 p.m., but there may be some flexibility to change the day and time to accommodate the new teacher's schedule.
- One of our current teachers will remain teaching every other week, so that class takes place every Wednesday, but the two Street Yoga teachers alternate the days that they teach.
- The site is located at 1002 E. Spruce Street in Seattle.
Casa de los Amigos
An opportunity to teach weekly classes at Casa de los Amigos begins in March.
Details:
- Casa de los Amigos (under YouthCare) is a shelter for homeless, undocumented Latino youth ages 12-17. The shelter provides meals, educational programming, counseling, and life skills sessions, while staff work to find permanent placement for the youth.
- The class takes currently takes place on Mondays from 4-5 p.m., but there may be some flexibility on changing the time to accommodate the new teacher's schedule.
- The site is located at 3601 NE 123rd St in Seattle.
- Most of the youth speak Spanish and thus we greatly prefer a Spanish-speaker for this site. There is a possibility of having the staff translate, but our first priority is to have someone who is comfortable with the Spanish language.
Other Sites in the Future
Are you interested in teaching in the future at a different site?
Please email me at stephanie@streetyoga.org and we can start the process by having you fill out a volunteer application. This will help facilitate a quicker placement as we create partnerships with new sites and have openings at current sites.
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| Upcoming Events and Seattle Teacher Training
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| |  Trivia Night Fundraiser
On Thursday, April 21, Street Yoga will be hosting a trivia night from 6:30 - 9 p.m. at the Belltown Pub.
More details will soon be posted to our events page, including the fabulous prizes you could win! Please mark your calendar! Hope to see you there.
Next Teacher Training in Seattle
Our next Seattle teacher training will take place from April 29 - May 1 at the Ryther Child Center.
Sign up here! Just scroll down to the Seattle, WA Training for details, registration, and payment.
Come learn to teach yoga and mindfulness to youth and families struggling with homelessness, poverty, addiction, abuse, and truama. Completing this training will not make you a certified yoga teacher, but it will make you eligible to apply to teach Street Yoga classes at our partner sites!
You can learn more about our trainings here.
Thank you to YogaBlaze for sponsoring this training!
Potlucks
The 2011 potlucks take place the first Thursday of each month, from 6-8 pm, at my house (3917 Midvale Ave N, Unit A, Seattle 98103).
The next potluck will be Thursday, March 3rd. As Caroline Goodell was unable to make our last potluck due to an illness, she has rescheduled to present at our March potluck. She will be speaking about teaching Kinesthetic Awareness to youth and has extensive background in working with youth recovering from trauma. You can read more about Caroline here.
You can read one of Caroline's articles here. Please email me some questions in advance so she can be prepared to discuss the current issues you're facing in your classes.
As always, please bring a dish to share. RSVP's are greatly appreciated but not required.
Hope to see you then!
***Please note: Our speaker for the April potluck would like to use a projector for his talk. Please let me know if you have access to a projector that we could borrow for the April potluck. Thank you!
 Circus Yoga Training!
Circus Yoga is holding TWO events at the Samarya Center in Seattle this February - a workshop on a Friday night and a 2 1/2 day Ring One Immersion from Friday to Sunday.
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Workshop: Date - Friday, February 18, 2011
Time - 6:00-8:00pm
Place - Samarya Center, Seattle
Cost - $25/adult, $10/kid ages 7 and up - Ring One Immersion:Feb 18 - 20, 2011
Fri 6-9 p.m. · Sat 11:30 a.m - 5:30 p.m. · Sun 11:30 - 5:30pm
Location: Samarya Center, Seattle
Cost - $240
Street Yoga: $192
* Special Discount for Street Yoga! 20% email stephanie asap to secure a spot!
» Click here for more details!
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| Opportunity to Serve - Seattle's Executive Committee
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We are starting a new Executive Committee session in March and are looking for new members!
The Seattle Executive Committee serves as an advisory board for the Seattle Branch of Street Yoga.
The committee meets once per month for two hours in a conference room near the Whole Foods on Denny Way. Currently, we meet the third Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:30, although the day and time will change to accommodate the new group. The initial commitment is to serve for 6 months.
We are going to focus this year on fundraising (cultivating new individual donors, gathering business sponsorships) and outreach. We will have trainings during our meetings to build these skills and support one another in these efforts. Each committee member agrees to raise or donate a self-determined amount of money for the branch each session. We also report to the Board of Directors in Portland (via phone/Skype) as needed.
The Executive Committee has space for up to 8 members and we currently have 5.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please email me at stephanie@streetyoga.org and we can talk more! Thank you.
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| Other Ways to Support the Seattle Branch |
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There are many other ways to get involved with the Seattle Branch of Street Yoga!
Here are a few ideas:
- Have a special skill related to yoga, mindfulness, wellness, or our clients (youth and caregiviers struggling with homelessness, poverty, addiction, abuse and trauma)? Volunteer to provide a one-hour training at one of our monthly potlucks!
- Have experience with behind-the-scenes work such as accounting, bookkeeping, marketing, fundraising, grant writing, etc? Volunteer to help us out with some of these tasks!
- Have some old (gently used, please!) mats lying around, or know a person or studio that does? Donate the mats for use in Street Yoga classes!
- Have a desire to help but you aren't sure where you'd fit in? Email me at stephanie@streetyoga.org and we can brainstorm together!
- PLEASE NOTE that we are currently looking to borrow a projector for our trainer's presentation at the April potluck. Please email me at stephanie@streetyoga.org if you know of a projector that we could use.
Financial Support:
We rely on financial contributions to keep our prgrams running. Please consider the following ways to support the Seattle branch financially:
As always, you can donate anytime! To make a donation, click here, and choose the Seattle Branch as the recipient on the last page.
We now have the option for you to sign up for automatic recurring donations!
Our Warrior Level Donations begin at $9 a month for a total donation of $108 this year.
Buy a Street Yoga t-shirt! We have two designs
- "GIVE" design featuring our Street Yoga Heart with Wings. What a beautiful way to show how you spread love in the world.
- "TRIUMPH" design features Ganesh and a beautiful new design showing Street Yoga's path to overcoming obstacles!
- Both designs say "Street Yoga" on the back. The shirts can be bought in person for $22 or online for $25 (includes shipping).
 You can email stephanie@streetyoga.org to purchase one in person. You can go to our online donation form to order one online, and select the Seattle branch as the recipient of the funds.
Buy Street Yoga tea! Street Yoga Tea is a sweet, refreshing hibiscus blend that calms and clarifies. Hibiscus, the red flower sacred to Ganesh, contains vitamin C and is beneficial to meditation. Street Yoga tea also has calming chamomile, rosemary for concentration, peppermint, cardamom and cinnamon for digestion, lemongrass for its antioxidant properties, and stevia and licorice for taste. This tea is beneficial and safe for all, including children.
We have both $5 sizes and $10 sizes. You can email stephanie@streetyoga.org to purchase the tea in person. You can go to our to order one online here (only the $10 size is available online), and select the Seattle branch as the recipient of the funds.
Thank you! We could not continue to serve the Seattle community without your support.
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Thank you again for being a part of the Street Yoga Seattle community!
I'll leave you all with this quote...
"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response...There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. When we discover that, we will be able to make of this old world a new world."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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