About Us

yogaHOPE, is a non-profit outreach organization dedicated to establishing rehabilitative yoga programs in residential facilities for underserved women in substance abuse recovery, poor and homeless women, and victims of domestic violence.

The practice of yoga has been shown to produce positive motivational change by helping women regain their vital center of energy, satisfaction and stability. It also teaches mindfulness, impulse control, interpersonal relationship skills, discernment in decision-making, patience, and acceptance of self and of the surrounding world. The practice of yoga can help reduce low self-esteem and poor body image, and greatly improves a woman's sense of personal empowerment.

"The practice of yoga has been shown to produce positive motivational change by helping women regain their vital center of energy, satisfaction, and stability."

In addition to introducing the practice of yoga to these populations, yogaHOPE offers a scholarship program, which will enable dedicated students to attend a Yoga Alliance recognized Teacher Training and Certification Program. Once they complete this training, they will be eligible for employment as a yogaHOPE instructor. Your contribution helps enable yogaHOPE in our aim to help as many women as we can, and it is yogaHOPE’s goal to open yoga studios which will be managed, run and taught completely by yogaHOPE graduates.

Our team of volunteer teachers believes very strongly in the practice of yoga and the importance of making yoga available to those populations, therefore we bring yoga classes to the facilities where these women live or visit: Their residential rehab facilities, homeless shelters, prisons etc... To foster a feeling of ownership and commitment to the practice. We provide donated yoga clothing and supplies to the students. We make the practice accessible to all abilities and encourage the women to listen to their own bodies in order to determine how far they want to go in the practice.

Two additional aspects of our program are our Certificate Program and our Teacher Training Scholarship Program. In brief, these programs give the women an opportunity to work towards achievement recognition (the Certificate Program) and be awarded a full scholarship to a yoga teacher training and certification program (the Scholarship Program).

Our commitment is to helping these women make positive, permanent and profound changes in their lives.