Yoga Care

The YCF Needs a Communicating Yogi or Yogini

We are moving into the next phase of our development and we'd like to have you help!  If you have 2-3 hours a week that you want to contribute, to answer email, make a few phone calls, and do some of the coordination  of the YCF team meetings...you can make a difference. Just write and tell us a bit about why you want to work with the YCF and a bit about yourself. Write to us at yogacarefoundation@yogayoga.com.

Yay to more yoga for more people!

Sat Nam and Blessings,
The Yoga Care Foundation Team

Yoga Care Foundation Advisory Committee Meeting

If you've wanted to get involved with the Yoga Care Foundation but were unsure how, now is your chance. We will be having an Advisory Committee Meeting, and we want you to be there! Come and help us determine how best the YCF can serve the community. If you'd like to be invited, let us know: send us an email at yogacarefoundation@yogayoga.com.

Save the Date - Garage Sale Fundraiser - May 24th!

Save the Date!  May 24th, on the lawn in front of Yoga Yoga South there will be an awesome garage sale, and all proceeds will go to fund the YCF programs, including our research programs with Mary Quilty and Sat Bir Khalsa at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at the Harvard Medical School, and our local classes for lower income folks. Mark your calendars and start cleaning out your closets!

Yoga Care Foundation Premier Event Features Yoga Therapy Pioneer Gary Kraftsow

Austin, Texas - (November 1, 2007) The first event sponsored by the Yoga Care  Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to growing the art, science, and community of yoga, will be held on Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Yoga Yoga Westgate, 4477 S. Lamar, in Austin, TX. The keynote speakers at this event will be Gary Kraftsow- internationally renowned teacher, author, speaker and Director of the American Viniyoga Institute - and Rich Goldstein, Managing Partner at Yoga Yoga in Austin, Texas. They will address the historical role of yoga in our health care and culture, and the vital role yoga will continue to play in this growing arena. This event is designed to honor the founders and donors who have contributed to the creation of the Yoga Care Foundation and is by invitation only.       

Get Acquainted with the Yoga Care Foundation

What is the Yoga Care Foundation?

The Yoga Care Foundation is a public nonprofit charity which is being founded by Yoga Yoga and our community of Austin yoga students and teachers. 

What is the mission of the Foundation?
The Foundation is dedicated to growing the art, science and community of yoga. It has 3 primary missions:
1. Community Outreach
To provide access to yoga instruction for low-income individuals
2. Scientific Research
To research, explore and inform about the physiological, psychological and therapeutic effects of yoga.
3. Education and Training
To educate about the traditional teachings and benefits of yoga and provide scholarships and grants for yoga teacher certification and ongoing training.

Why was the Foundation formed?
As a community, we at Yoga Yoga have a commitment to serve.  We found that from time to time the corporate form of our for-profit yoga center was not the best possible structure for doing things that are better suited to a non-profit environment.  As a public charity, the Yoga Care Foundation lets us direct energy into supporting the growth of yoga through research, education and teaching as charity.  The Foundation also lets us include the larger yoga community in achieving the goal of enhancing yoga’s role in our culture’s health and well-being.

What are the first two projects the Foundation will fund?
The Yoga Care Foundation is in the process of creating a national community oriented ‘yoga-grant’ program to support individual initiatives focused on bringing yoga to traditionally low income groups within our communities.  A structure will be developed to allow teachers to receive income for choosing to contribute through teaching yoga to those in need. The first round of grants will be awarded at the end of 2007.

In September, 2007 the Foundation will begin participating in an outcome study to research the effects of yoga on individuals’ health and well-being when they first begin a yoga practice.  The YCF will provide infrastructure support and partial operational funding for a study being developed and coordinated with an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at the Harvard Medical School.