Dear Friends and Family,
I'm writing today because I wanted to ask personally for your support for Living Yoga. We are collecting donations to help raise funds for a local nonprofit that provides free yoga classes to youth and adults in correctional facilities, drug and alcohol recovery centers, domestic violence shelters, and for those accessing other transitional services.
If you currently do not have a charity that you support, or are looking to have a big impact in many people's lives - I highly recommend that you donate to Living Yoga! In the last year, they have provided more than 10,000 student hours of free yoga to teens and adults who are working to transform their lives. By offering yoga, they are sharing the benefits of a more than 3,000 year old practice that provides tools for stress management, self-awareness, impulse control, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
By providing the necessary life skills developed through the practice of yoga, many are better able to contribute both to the communities in which they now live and to the community to which they will return to or re-enter. Past offenders can adopt new behaviors and patterns from which to make safer decisions, teens can learn to make choices about their bodies and their actions from more grounded places, victims of abuse can re-connect within themselves and take steps towards empowerment and trauma healing, and addicts can overcome craving and desire as well as unhealthy and harmful behavior. These changes within individuals not only affect them personally - but everyone they come into contact with- their children, family, neighbors, employers, customers - and most importantly, their community.
I hope you will support us in supporting someone else's yoga practice. If you have time and extra money, even a couple of dollars, please make a donation. Your support would mean the world to us. This year Living Yoga is hoping to raise $20,000 for their annual campaign. It is a tough and tight economy - and to be able to keep underwriting their free programs, they need financial support. Please spread the word and help keep bringing yoga to those who need it most!
Love and Peace
Yoga Shala of Portland
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