Our Founding Programs bring specialized yoga programming to individuals affected by addiction, incarceration, war, eating disorders, and cancer.
Over the past twelve years, our programs have brought hundreds of thousands of classes to beneficiaries in forty-six US states and nineteen countries around the world. Today, our programs are being studied in cutting-edge research on the therapeutic benefits of yoga for these populations.
Eat Breathe Thrive
Yoga for Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are difficult to overcome; of those who receive treatment, an estimated 65% relapse. Eat Breathe Thrive offers yoga-based programs that teach skills for mindful eating, emotional resilience, and body confidence.
Mindful Yoga Therapy
Yoga for Veterans and Service Members
Veterans don’t have timely access to the health care services they need to manage the mental and physical consequences of war. Mindful Yoga Therapy helps veterans manage their symptoms and live healthy, peaceful, and productive lives.
Prison Yoga Project
Yoga for Therapeutic Rehabilitation
Mass incarceration imposes staggering social end economic costs, and prisons do not reduce recidivism. Prison Yoga Project empowers incarcerated men and women with yoga and mindfulness practices for healing and transformation.
Yoga of 12-Step Recovery
Yoga for Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Addiction and substance use problems wreak havoc on individuals, families, healthcare systems, and the global economy. Yoga of 12-Step Recovery empowers people with holistic tools for sustainable recovery and relapse prevention.
yoga4cancer
Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors
Cancer poses unique physical and mental health challenges, some of which persist for decades after treatment. yoga4cancer helps cancer patients and survivors manage treatment side effects and sustain cancer recovery.
The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute
Yoga Service Training
Most yoga teacher trainings don’t provide the skills needed to work with in-need and under-resourced populations. The Hard & The Soft Institute prepares new teachers to share the therapeutic tools of yoga and mindfulness traditions.
