Tell me how you first got involved in with YO? I can't believe it's been 10 year since I first got involved in YO! In 2007, I was a brand new baby lawyer and about to start working with marginalized clients in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. I was also a pretty...
Lori’s Story
I’ve always had a zest for life. I love exploring, learning and engaging with people, and I have always had an open heart; I was the kid in school that all the teachers put the new student next to. And in all my capacity for love of self and...
Yoga Outreach’s 2016-2017 Annual Report
To download our annual report, simply click on the link. Annual Report 2016 - 2017
Could trauma-informed yoga benefit drug treatment for youth?
Yoga Outreach has been providing trauma-informed yoga classes to justice-involved and at-risk youth for 18 years. Based on the empirical studies that have established trauma-informed yoga as an evidence-based treatment intervention, and the observations of Yoga Outreach teachers, Yoga Outreach submitted a proposal to the Department of Justice to...
What does it mean to hold space?
Yoga Outreach has been providing trauma-informed yoga classes to justice-involved and at-risk youth for 18 years. Based on the empirical studies that have established trauma-informed yoga as an evidence-based treatment intervention, and the observations of Yoga Outreach teachers, Yoga Outreach submitted a proposal to the Department of Justice to...
Yoga Outreach to provide trauma-sensitive yoga to women and children fleeing abuse across BC
Yoga Outreach and BC Society of Transition Houses launching 5-year research project called "Reaching Out with Yoga" funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada that will provide trauma-sensitive yoga programming for women and children in transition houses across BC. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (March 30, 2016) - Domestic violence affects...
Podcast – Dr. Joanne Baker Executive Director
We are super thrilled to have an interview with our ROWY program partner! Dr. Joanne baker, Executive Director fro the BC Society of Transition Houses discusses the research aspects of this project to bring yoga to women and children fleeing violence in BC. Listen HERE For more information please...
Invitation to a Friend Raiser
“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.” ~Brene Brown You may...