Help Keep Embrace Yoga Studio Open

To our Dear Friends and Yoga Family,

Embrace Yoga Studio was created to “embrace” our community - a space for us to learn, practice, and support our spiritual growth, health, and wellness. Over the years, we have focused on creating a nurturing, safe and accepting environment that helped us grow together.

The pandemic has devastated small business worldwide. Public health measures have been instituted to slow the spread of disease, but these safety measures have necessitated closure of the studio.

Because Embrace Yoga is a small studio, Beth Toomey (the owner) is unable to pay the costs necessary to keep the studio alive during shelter-in-place orders. The studio faces the sad possibility of having to close permanently.

Unfortunately, Embrace Yoga was not able to secure a small business loan from the federal government. Fortunately, our popular livestream classes have provided a small income to cover teacher salaries. But income from our livestream classes is simply not enough to cover rent and other expenses. We have now been closed for two months and owe back rent and we do not know when the shelter-in-place will be lifted and the studio will be allowed to physically open again. With monthly rent + utilities costing over $4,000 we will be unable to move forward without outside assistance.

We are asking for your help to keep us going until we can reopen for our community. The money we collect will be used to pay past due rent and utilities, but most important, to keep our space until we are able to re-open in a safe manner.

We, as students and teachers, have started a Go Fund Me page. We hope you can make a donation of any size so that Embrace Yoga can continue to serve our community with its dedication to your health and well-being. We want our students to know we deeply value your participation and are committed to provide the best learning and healing environment.

Please share our page with your friends and family. No donation is too small. It would also be a HUGE help to get your friends to take livestream classes and sign up on our website at www.embraceyogamarin.com.

Much Gratitude,

Embrace Team






Testimonials:

“There is a special quality to the energy at Embrace.  It offers a quiet, serene atmosphere where members from all walks of life gather to practice individually while simultaneously drawing on the support of this dedicated spiritual community.  As a teacher, I leave each class suffused with the healing, strengthening energies of the collective practice we share at this unique studio.  Embrace is much more than a physical studio--it is a spiritual home for anyone who wishes to join with others in the ongoing work of Self-realization that is yoga.  I am so deeply grateful to have found my way here”. 
www.embraceyogamarin.com ~ Jennifer Newcomb

“I have been with Embrace since the early opening days.  When I think about Embrace Yoga, two words come to my mind instantly: Community and Family.  I LOVE teaching at Embrace! It is a place where everyone can come in and instantly feel part of a wonderful community and study the Art of Yoga with amazing yoga teachers that care for each student that enters the studio.
The studio owner, Beth Toomey, has been amazing from day one since she bought the studio a few years ago. Her passion for yoga and for this studio is something that we all see in her face and actions. I am so grateful that Beth is doing everything she can to keep her studio available, safe and provide the teachers with the ability to stay engaged and connected with our Embrace Family by teaching online classes.  Being part of this wonderful community, especially right now, helps us get through these challenge days and stay stronger as we practice the Art of Yoga with compassion, kindness and positivity in mind! I hope that you can join us in our effort in helping Beth keep the studio open now so we all can continue to enjoy what Embrace Yoga offers online until we are able to see each other again in person! May you be Well." 
~ Clara Gray