"The heart that gives, gathers." |
Dear friend,
Today, December 1st, is #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global effort to kick-start the charitable season through collaboration. Giving Tuesday is observed every year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It follows the popular shopping holidays Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As you make decisions about your giving for today and the remainder of 2015, keep Street Yoga in mind.
Everyone deserves access to the healing benefits yoga and mindfulness offer and Street Yoga helps facilitate that access. Once a young person learns how to focus their breath or feel safe in their bodies, we have empowered them with a skill set they can draw on for the rest of their lives. Yoga and mindfulness offer a toolkit for becoming centered, calm, in control, responsive instead of reactionary and with a sense of their individual purpose and inherent alive-ness. This is something that no one can ever take away from them no matter how transient or chaotic their life is, their economic status, family history, or their educational or career opportunities.
Street Yoga's Trauma-Informed Yoga Training and Weekly Class Programs make it possible for a gigantic ripple effect, spreading the benefits yoga and mindfulness offer across the country and the globe. We're asking you to join us in our efforts to make yoga available to everyone-- starting with young people who need it most. Below are a few suggested Giving Levels-- gifts of every size make a huge difference in our work and are greatly celebrated.
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$600
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Provide six months of yoga for youth. Your donation gives yoga to youth AND support the professionalism of our volunteer teaching team.
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$108
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GIVE INSPIRATION
Provide one month of yoga for youth. This gift equips young people with tools for self-regulation, resilience, and wellness through yoga and mindfulness.
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$50
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GIVE EDUCATION
Provide continuing education for 20 volunteer teachers. We offer workshops on trauma, science of addiction, and adapting postures for various populations.
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$25
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GIVE THE ESSENTIALS
Provide mats, mat cleaner and blocks for one partner site. Students can be hard on materials, we want to keep things fresh and functional.
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Thank you for thoughtfully considering what you are able to contribute this December. For more information about Giving Tuesday, visit the organization website at www.givingtuesday.org.
With great gratitude,
Everyone at Street Yoga
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CALL FOR SPONSORS: YOGALOVE 2016
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YogaLOVE is one of Street Yoga's biggest community events and fundraisers of the year. For YogaLOVE 2016 the entire month of March we will be offering a variety of classes, workshops and other yoga and trauma-informed awareness events that participants can attend individually or a purchase a month long "passport" and enjoy them all! More information coming soon.
We're looking for businesses of all sizes to support programming by sponsoring YogaLOVE 2016. Becoming a Street Yoga "Corporate Sponsor" is a great way to grow your brand and support an important cause. By partnering with us, your business will:
- Increase brand awareness through promotions on our Facebook page (7K+ followers), Twitter (22K+), and Newsletter (5K+).
- Highlight your commitment to corporate social responsibility and make your business more attractive to clients and customers who value doing good.
- Show your investment in the future of your community by teaming with a youth-focused organization.
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HOLIDAY SHOPPING: USE AMAZON SMILE
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Support Street Yoga as you do your holiday shopping! Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchase spending to Street Yoga through their foundation, Amazon Smile. - Click their logo below (or copy and paste this link: https://smile.amazon.com/ into your browser) to get started.
- Sign into your Amazon account (or create one).
- Search for Street Yoga as your charitable donation.
- The next time you shop, sign into Amazon Smile and Street Yoga will automatically receive a donation with each of your purchases.
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| DECEMBER 17, 2016: DONATION-BASED YOGA CLASS |
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DECEMBER 2016 STUDIO OF THE MONTH: HOT FEET FITNESS
ABOUT Join us for a 21-minute high-intensity interval WORKOUT class, and 51-minute heated Vinyasa YOGA class at Hot Feet Fitness in Burien, WA.
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WHEN Thursday, December 10, 2015; 6pm WORKOUT class, 6:30pm YOGA class
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COST Suggested donation $10+, 100% of proceeds support Street Yoga programming
PARKING & INFORMATION Parking is free and available right in front of the studio. Mats and water bottles are available to use, bathrooms are available on site and the studio warms up to around 90 degrees.
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TRAINING ANNOUCEMENTS
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| CALL FOR COMMUNITY TRAINING PARTNERS |
Street Yoga is looking for yoga studios, non-profits and other groups willing to partner to help us promote our weekend-long Trauma-Informed Yoga Trainings.
COMMUNITY PARTNER REQUIREMENTS The Community Partner must be located in the city the training is being held (some exceptions apply). The Community Partner must have a social media presence and be willing to promote the Street Yoga Training on all their channels: including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, website and newsletter.
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WHERE Street Yoga is currently looking for Community Partners in Minneapolis (1), St Louis (1), Toronto (2), Seattle (2), Chicago (2), San Antonio (2)
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CONTACT jessicaosberg@streetyoga.org if you would like to learn more about the opportunity to partner with Street Yoga as a Community Partner.
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| UPCOMING TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TRAININGS |
Our weekend training is Street Yoga's core curriculum. It offers an inspiring and heart-felt introduction to the field of yoga service for youth experiencing life challenges. The densely-packed 14-hour training focuses on a wide-variety of practical, hands-on skills needed to serve youth with yoga and meditation in the real world. Areas for exploration and practice include communicating effectively, maintaining safety in the classroom, promoting healthy boundaries, choosing postures and exercises, handling challenging behaviors and situations, and collaborating with agencies. More about the Trauma-Informed Yoga Trainings here.
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This weekend!
December 4-6, 2015 with Mark Lilly
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December 11-13, 2015 with Ivy Katz
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February 5-7, 2016
with Ivy Katz
Early bird deadline Friday, January 1, 2016.
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 JOIN US FOR A TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TRAINING IN YOUR CITY
Albuquerque, NM - December 4-6, 2015 Washington DC - December 11-13, 2015 Minneapolis, MN - February 5-7, 2016 St. Louis, MO - April 8-10, 2016
Toronto, ON - April 15-17, 2016
Seattle, WA - April 15-17, 2016 Philadelphia, PA - April 22-24, 2016 Chicago, IL - April 29 - May 1, 2016 San Antonio, TX - May 13-15, 2016
Registration for Los Angeles, CA - June 2016 Training coming soon.
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| PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: YOGA SERVICE COUNCIL |
YOGA SERVICE COUNCIL RELEASES BEST PRACTICES FOR YOGA IN SCHOOLS
Best Practices for Yoga in Schools is a guide for yoga teachers, classroom teachers, school administrators, social workers, and anyone else interested in bringing yoga to children safely, and in a just and inclusive way. By outlining suggestions and considerations across a wide variety of topics, this book will help you effectively and sustainably offer high-quality yoga programming for all children.
Based on the collective wisdom and experience of 23 contributors and four reviewers, this Best Practices Guide will support your capacity to implement meaningful school-based yoga programs, with the potential to transform the educational environment and help students thrive in a wide variety of situations.
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SEATTLE YOGA NEWS is a weekly digital publication with informative, educational and inspirational content curated for the yoga community in the Seattle area. Subscribe for free.
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YOGA TEACHER CENTRAL donates 5% of proceeds to Street Yoga. Get instant access to expert teachings from diverse styles. Anatomy, Asana, Bandhas, Injuries, Mantras, Meditation, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Pranayama, Sequencing, Themes. www.yogateachercentral.com.
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THE SAMARYA CENTER offers $100 off their Integrated Movement Therapy (IMT) trainings to all active Street Yoga teachers! Read about IMT here.
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CONNECT WITH STREET YOGA
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Jessica Osberg
Executive Director
jessicaosberg@streetyoga.org
Dominique Lim
Program Coordinator
dominiquelim@streetyoga.org
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Street Yoga is a nationally recognized non-profit organization that teaches yoga, mindfulness and compassionate communication to youth and families experiencing homelessness, poverty, abuse, addiction, trauma, and behavioral challenges, so that they can grow stronger, heal from past traumas, and create for themselves lives that are inspired, safe, and joyful. Learn more at www.streetyoga.org.
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