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Yoga Hits the Streets

This article appeared in the Jan/Feb 2004 print edition of the Yoga Journal magazine. We are reproducing it here in case you missed the published version.  
 

Yoga Hits the Streets

  

When Mark Lilly, a software engineer and yoga practitioner in Portland, Oregon decided to organize yoga classes for the homeless population of that city, he learned it wasn't as simple as finding a teacher and and buying some mats.

"Many nonconventional places have had yoga teachers, but I found that in nearly every case, the teacher eventually had to stop teaching due to burnout or life events," Lilly says. "The homeless have had enough of good things dropping out of their lives. We wanted to provide ongoing teaching, simply as a way of honoring them with our commitment."

Encouraging Self-Respect Through Yoga

August 5, 2003 ENCOURAGING SELF-RESPECT THROUGH YOGA

[reprinted from The Oregonian] 

Summary: A new program, which began last month at Outside In, offers classes to homeless youths Colorful mats lie in rows across the floor, young people sprawled across them in yoga poses.

Yoga Helps Homeless Teens Get Centered

 

Teaching at Juvi -- Donald E. Long in Portland

The following was written in Winter, 2007 by Free Thomas, our primary Juvenile Justice teacher.

He writes: "I am now into my 3rd month teaching yoga to male teenagers in the RAD unit at Donald E. Long facility. I certainly knew from the beginning that this would be a challenge, yet I had no idea in what ways. Luckily, before I ever stepped foot in the unit, the staff had been talking up yoga and getting the guys excited because “Yoga” was coming!

Outside In

Outside In offers a safe place to connect with other youth, eat healthy meals, and access services that will help you stay safe, and help you build up for yourself the life you want.

White Shield Center

We started teaching yoga at White Shield in 2003.

The girls at White Shield range in age from 12-17. We have been teaching the longest in the Wildflowers program, where girls come to live for up to 3 months while waiting to be moved elsewhere by the State foster care system.

We have just taught our first nutrition/cooking class at the Cottagew 

Mending Body and Spirit

Information in this article, originally published January 11, 2006, was corrected January 12, 2006.


 Practitioners using yoga therapy to mend bodies and spirits

 

By Michelle Goodman
Special to The Seattle Times

A Space Without Struggle

from the May, 2005 issue of Yogi Times

by lucia viti

Yoga for Youth

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