Interactive links to relevant projects & initiatives.
- yogaHOPE: healing ourselves through personal empowerment. TIMBo Program, Trauma Informed Mind Body
- Africa Yoga Project: educate, empower, elevate
- MandalaHouse: Self-directed healing programs in post-conflict populations and with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and ex-combatants in Uganda
- Yoga Dork: World news on yoga projects for community and individual development
- Yoga in the West Bank
- BBC Africa: Yoga in Sierra Leone is helping recover from the psychological effects of the civil war
- CNN Inside Africa: Yoga transforms lives in Kenya
- The Guardian: Mindfulness helps students cope with academic stress and the pressures of life outside the school gates. Matthew Jenkin examines the benefits of silent reflection in education.
- Breath of Hope Foundation & Satyagraha Ashram in Bali: empowering children at risk from poverty and disaster through yoga
- Off The Mat and Into The World
- The Earth Charter Initiative (2000): a people’s declaration of ethical principles for securing a just , peaceful, humane and sustainable future.
- STAR: Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience
- Decolonizing Yoga
- Survivors on the Yoga Mat
- QUARTZ: Colombia is converting former death squad members into yoga teachers
- LSE BLOG: Building Inner Peace: Yoga’s transformative effect on peacebuilding efforts in war-torn societies
- Project Air: This is the first initiative, formally endorsed by the United Nations, to help vulnerable Rwandan girls and women to heal and mend both their minds and their bodies – with yoga
- WE-ACTx: a non-profit organizatio in Rwanda that offers yoga classes to help survivors of genocidal rape alleviate symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Living Ubuntu a non-profit organization in California that focuses on mind-body approaches to heal the effects of stress, trauma and compassion fatigue working with vulnerable groups and refugees
- TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercise): an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD.
- Peace Revolution: Inner Peace + Outer Peace = World Peace
- Dunna: NGO that promotes pilots on yoga for reparation, yoga for reconciliation and yoga for peaceful school coexistence in Colombia
- Financial Express: Narendra Modi’s call for UN International Day of Yoga gets overwhelming response
- Anahanta International: an international nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC that started a yoga initiative in Ramallah, Palestine
- Mind & Life Institute: a non-profit organization committed toto help reduce suffering fostering interdisciplinary dialogue between Western science, philosophy, humanities, and contemplative traditions.
- ABC News Australia: Veterans take downward dog approach in fight against PTSD
- Give Back Yoga – USA
- Street Yoga: building capacity in youth to overcome trauma – USA
- Yoga Outreach: serving men, women, and youth facing challenges with mental health, addiction, poverty, violence, trauma, and imprisonment – Canada
- The Art of Yoga Project: early intervention to help at-risk girls – USA
- Yoga Medicine Seva Project supports The Village Experience in India: participants on the Seva Retreat visit local shelters and one of the organization’s anti-human trafficking rescue center’s for young girls, and conduct yoga sessions for the girls and marginalised kids
- Yoga Bear: a non-profit organization and a US nation wide network of yoga studios dedicated to connecting cancer fighters and survivors with free access to the benefits of healing yoga
- Krama Yoga: a Cambodian NGO run by young men and women who have changed their lives with yoga and now provide Kids Yoga, Teen Yoga and Yoga Therapy classes for other young Cambodians
- Kundalini Yoga Cambodia: a yoga program started to make yoga and meditation available to persons and groups suffering from trauma and stress – i.e. outreach activities in poor neighborhood schools and training school teachers is a NGO project for disadvantaged children
- Socially Engaged Yoga Network (SEYN), a a local network of people in the Chicago area interested in yoga service and outreach run through Yogacare, a nonprofit that helps SEYN to support yoga teachers and community organizations committed to sharing the benefits of yoga with underserved communities
- Yoga Service Council and The Journal of Yoga Service: a non-profit to bring yoga to marginalized communities in the US, and a Journal to record best practices at national level
- The Prison Yoga Project
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