Africa Yoga Project
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I am currently traveling around the world teaching and sharing my yoga practice and the healing and connection it offers. During my travels, I became aware of an opportunity to take my practice off the mat through a beautiful act of service. I need your help to support me in my quest to share the healing power of Yoga along with the Africa Yoga Project.
A dear friend and colleague, Mary Tilson, has organized a group of volunteer yogis to work with the Africa Yoga Project (AYP), which certifies local instructors in and around Nairobi, Kenya, to teach yoga as a practical way to earn income to support their families, as well as bring the emotionally, spiritually and physically healing benefits of the practice to their communities.
SO WHAT'S MY AFRICA TRIP ALL ABOUT?
The slums of Nairobi are a volatile place to live and many people have spent most of their lives experiencing repeated trauma and often turn to drugs and alcohol as a means to cope, believing these are the only tools available to ease their suffering. We feel that, by bringing the tools yoga has to offer, specifically through the veil of the 12 Step Recovery approach, we can help them to face and heal their trauma and addiction in a healthy way. Nikki Myers, creator of Yoga for 12 Step Recovery, will be joining us March 21-February 2, 2019, as we certify 60 local yoga instructors in the mind-body approach to Addiction and Trauma Recovery. On a personal level, I am incredibly passionate about the power of 12 Step Recovery because of the longterm benefits I have seen it bring to many of my family and friends, and want to have a more intimate and educated understanding of how to combine these benefits with those of yoga.
WHAT WILL YOUR MONEY BE SUPPORTING?
As a group, we are fundraising $44,000 to finance the certification process for 60 local yoga teachers, as we participate and learn right alongside them. Your donations will go to support these teachers as well as support me with program fees and personal costs.
Every last $1 counts so please donate anything you can and share this with your family and friends!
Sending you so much love and gratitude,
Emily McMichael
A dear friend and colleague, Mary Tilson, has organized a group of volunteer yogis to work with the Africa Yoga Project (AYP), which certifies local instructors in and around Nairobi, Kenya, to teach yoga as a practical way to earn income to support their families, as well as bring the emotionally, spiritually and physically healing benefits of the practice to their communities.
SO WHAT'S MY AFRICA TRIP ALL ABOUT?
The slums of Nairobi are a volatile place to live and many people have spent most of their lives experiencing repeated trauma and often turn to drugs and alcohol as a means to cope, believing these are the only tools available to ease their suffering. We feel that, by bringing the tools yoga has to offer, specifically through the veil of the 12 Step Recovery approach, we can help them to face and heal their trauma and addiction in a healthy way. Nikki Myers, creator of Yoga for 12 Step Recovery, will be joining us March 21-February 2, 2019, as we certify 60 local yoga instructors in the mind-body approach to Addiction and Trauma Recovery. On a personal level, I am incredibly passionate about the power of 12 Step Recovery because of the longterm benefits I have seen it bring to many of my family and friends, and want to have a more intimate and educated understanding of how to combine these benefits with those of yoga.
WHAT WILL YOUR MONEY BE SUPPORTING?
As a group, we are fundraising $44,000 to finance the certification process for 60 local yoga teachers, as we participate and learn right alongside them. Your donations will go to support these teachers as well as support me with program fees and personal costs.
Every last $1 counts so please donate anything you can and share this with your family and friends!
Sending you so much love and gratitude,
Emily McMichael
Organizer
Emily McMichael
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA