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Has yoga changed your life?

Do you feel more grounded and peaceful in times of stress and challenge? Has that chronic backache finally disappeared? Are your arms and legs looking more toned from a regular practice of sun salutations? What about that sense of accomplishment and gratitude when you enter a place of stillness in a balance pose or inversion? Do you see the world with a little more bliss?

Doesn’t everyone deserve to experience the wonderful benefits of yoga for a healthier mind, body and spirit? We believe so, and Yoga Month is on a mission to motivate all of your friends, co-workers and loved ones to try a class with you.

National Yoga Month is an awareness campaign to educate citizens about the health benefits of yoga while inspiring healthy living across the country. This is an effort by the yoga community, for the yoga community. Let’s come together to bring one week of free yoga to your local community.

As the newest additions to the National Yoga Month staff, we are excited to serve as a vehicle for spreading awareness into your home, workplace, school, city or state. Take action today and sign up to be a part of our expanding team! Raise the awareness of National Yoga Month in your area by reaching out to your local community. You are a cornerstone in this grassroots movement, bringing yoga communities across the country together as one.

Thank you for your support and dedication.

Namaste, Meredith & Sora

Ways You Can Help

Volunteer

As a Communication Volunteer you can:

• Research the studios in your area
• Update our studio database to ensure contact information is correct
• Answer emails concerning National Yoga Month
• Attend city events asYoga Month representatives
• Opt to write articles promoting National Yoga Month
• Commitment is 1-2 hours per week

Contact Sora to be a volunteer or city ambassadors

As a City Ambassador you can:

• Raise the awareness of National Yoga Month in your area by reaching out to local yoga teachers and studios
• Coordinate and attend city events
• Opt to write articles promoting National Yoga Month
• Commitment is 3-10 hours per week

Contact Sora to be a city ambassadors

Donate

Donate twenty-five dollars and receive a copy of Titans of Yoga DVD and Yoga Revolution CD. Your donation of any amount supports National Yoga Month and Yoga-Recess in Schools.

Sponsor

Be a sponsor and support our valuable cause. There are several levels of sponsorship as well as media partnerships available. Reach out to 20 million health-conscious Americans who currently practice yoga, and the additional 5 million who intend to try this beneficial practice.

With your help, we can move towards a nation where yoga is a part of every household. Sign up today by clicking here.

Our New Yoga Month Team

Introducing our new executive directors.

Sora No Sora , RYT-200, spends most of her day laughing with her students. She has been an elementary school teacher for several years and has recently returned from teaching abroad. Sora earned a liberal arts degree from Barnard College, Columbia University and a Masters of Science degree from Fordham University. She is dedicated to teaching children and teen yoga and is the founder of Sno Yoga. Sora is a New York native who resides in Jersey City, NJ. Contact Sora about media partnerships, volunteer and other questions

Meredith Montgomery Originally from Houston, Texas, Meredith earned a liberal arts degree from Kenyon College with majors in Studio Art and Environmental Studies, and a minor in Dance. She received her RYT-200 in 2005. Previously working for eight years in non-profit management, she currently publishes Natural Awakenings Magazine in the Gulf Coast counties of Alabama. Meredith resides in Fairhope, Alabama with her husband, their son, three dogs and a tortoise. Contact Meredith about sponsorship and ways to partner with National Yoga Month

Read more about Yoga Health Foundation and our mission

Messages from our Partners

Yoga Energy Activism with Shiva Rea Please help us spread the word to your local yoga communities and help people sign people up for the Energy Regeneration Challenge. Resources are there for you to inspire your local studio and help be part of 1,008/10,008 people for Earth Day, April 22 through September 22 as well as eco-living tools.

Texas Yoga Association -Yoga law on its way I assume by now you have heard the good news about SB 1176. Jenny, Brandon, Brad and I attended the Senate committee hearing last week and Jen testified for the passing of the Bill. She did a great job and the Bill passed the Senate committee unanimously. It will now be put to the Senate floor and then on to the House committee and then House floor. This is a significant plus for us, but I caution that we are still in a fight. There are opponents of the bill. This week we head back to Austin to testify in front of the House.

2011 Yoga Month Partners