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The Cornerstones of YFR’s Mission

Recovery

Our trademark is everybody is recovering from something… Recovery is for everyone.

This pillar will support the challenges in recovery efforts by instilling new habits through Yoga based practices that can lead to a happy healthier life.

YFR will:

  • Offer friendly and non- judgemental donation based classes for those looking to take the first step of self-awareness. Attendees will range from those in recovery as well as their loved ones that support their recovery
  • Provide mindfulness instructors to recovery centers, therapy groups and underserved communities for groups that do not have a budget for mindfulness programs.
  • Offer Yoga class scholarships at Yoga studios for both caregivers and recovering Yoga practitioners.
  • Produce half day inclusive educational seminars centered on Yoga recovery methods in conjunction with health practitioners and recovery therapists
  • Create a searchable national class database for teachers to market their recovery classes for a small yearly donation to YFR

Self Care

The intention of self-care yoga is to accept that we all suffer and will suffer in order to build resiliency.  There is a need to understand that hard and difficult situations WILL arise and that these (traumas) are opportunity to turn dark to light, negative to positive.  To neutralize through effort, diligence, and faith.

YFR will:

  • Produce yoga class curriculum and workshops that are trauma-sensitive within safe spaces.
  • Advocate for yoga offerings that are resilience based and positive focused.
  • Promote and educate through campaigning, sponsorship, and collaboration that self-care is imperative to a recovery journey with the goal that yoga be provided to everyone regardless of financial health.
  • Make mindfulness and yoga accessible to all bodies and abilities anytime and anywhere.

Education

YFR will:

  • Train teachers to become familiar and comfortable with the multifaceted journeys in Recovery and Mental Health. The knowledge and style of each teacher who completes the program will be consistent so that students who travel from one studio to the next can feel comfortable knowing that their yoga experiences will be similar.
  • Education will be rooted in the concept that the teacher provides the appropriate environment to facilitate healing.  This is grounded in empathy and communication and the Yamas and Niyamas.  As part of the program the teacher will be guided through their own personal “work” and growth.  Through exploration, the teacher will become adept at communicating to future students the ways in which “Yoga meets you where you are.”
  • Teachers will learn a variety of tools that help students cope with anxiety, nervousness, fear, sadness and trauma.  They will ultimately provide the environment that help the students develop strength, resiliency and joy

Diversity

YFR will focus on bringing more inclusive classes to Yoga Studio through scholarships in underserved communities. Scholarships will also be provided for continuing education.

  • They are  people who self -identify as POC and LGBTQ+
  • The scholarship does not only provide access but it is an opportunity for unconsciously segregated Yoga spaces to learn about different culture through day to day interactions and conversations. These conversations will hopefully point to the ways that yoga spaces are unconsciously White centered and spark change in the industry.
  • The Yoga spaces will not know that participants are on scholarship. The participant will pay for their services, using the scholarship monies, like any other student would. This way, the student is not treated differently and their money is not seen as less valuable than other student’s money. They are not treated like a token or “othered” by the staff or management. The studio will have no idea that the student came from this branch of the YFR. This also insures that studio employees act like they always would and do not shift their behaviors on a surface level simply to appear anti racist and inclusive when they really are not. They will not be able to use this arm of the organization like a badge on their website to proclaim diversity that is actually not evident in the student make up.
  • Eventually, there will be anti-racism, diversity and inclusion training for Yoga studios and Yoga teachers

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