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The Yoga Alliance Foundation (YAF) leverages yoga for social impact and fosters an expansive, accessible, and equitable yoga community.

The Foundation supports work in the following areas:

Broadening access to yoga’s healing potential
Fostering greater equity and more diverse representation within the yoga community
Expanding educational, service, and economic opportunities for yoga teachers

In response to the onset of COVID-19, YAF worked in partnership with Ivy Child International to establish an Emergency Relief Fund that could provide swift financial support to yoga professionals worldwide experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic. Here, just a few of the 430+ fund recipients hailing from 31 countries describe how the pandemic has affected their teaching and lives, and how their gift of sharing yoga brings a critical service to their students and communities during this difficult time.

Featuring: Annu Gaidhu, M.A., RAP., E-RYT 200; Ava Taylor; Carey Sims, E-RYT 500 and NASM CPT; Diane Butera; g Mechelle Davis, C-IAYT, E-RYT 200, RCYT, YACEP, Yoga Nidra II, Awak{end} Sleep™; Kevin Omollo; Tiare Kahana Bourget, RYT 500; Tori Wolfe-Sisson, RYT 500

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Teaching for Equity

This program provides financial support, resources, and community to yoga teachers who are teaching for little or no pay in historically marginalized communities and extends yoga access to those who may have encountered barriers or exclusion in the practice.

Eka Recovery Fund

The Eka Recovery Fund supports yoga professionals in returning to and/or sustaining their work, and sponsors activities that facilitate economic recovery.

Emergency Relief Fund

In May 2020, YAF partnered with the global non-profit Ivy Child International to introduce an Emergency Relief Fund for yoga professionals worldwide experiencing financial hardship due to the impacts of COVID-19. This program was open to yoga professionals across the globe, including YA members and non-members.

Coming soon— Well-Being Services

Well-Being Services will provide holistic mental health and well-being support for yoga professionals and those in their households facing barriers to these important services.

If you urgently need resources like those that will be offered through this program, please email foundation@yogaalliance.org to speak with our team.