When you come to your yoga mat, you feel the power in a hundred different ways. Clarity, peace, calmness, energy, connection… and the list goes on.
Help spread this healing power to others through our Power of a Yoga Mat campaign.
A yoga mat gives someone who lives in a 6′ x 8′ prison cell space to breathe and move, and find the strength to walk away from fighting. It offers a safe space to finally sleep for someone who is on high alert for the next missile attack. And a yoga mat may be the only place someone recovering from addiction is free from cravings.
“The first time I got on the mat, I got very emotional, and I knew that’s what I needed… to open up and relieve some of that energy that I had been walking around with for the last thirty years.”
“My recovery was jumpstarted and true sobriety began for me there on a yoga mat. My life is completely different today and for that I am truly grateful.”
The Impact So Far
To date, we’ve supplied over 25,000 mats to community yoga programs in 50 U.S. states and 10 countries.
Thanks to our partnership with lululemon and Gaiam, and the generous support of people like you, we have distributed yoga mats to 1,000+ organizations that bring yoga to individuals facing illness and hardship through our Mat Program.
You can make a difference
This October through December, help us change even more lives through yoga.
Make a donation
Help us empower more people with the life-changing gift of yoga.
Just $25 can provide a yoga mat to someone facing unthinkable challenges — such as a cancer diagnosis, homelessness, or the loss of a loved one to suicide.
“Thank you so much for the mats we were able to gift to kids at a teen grief camp! One girl stood up and taught the whole group tree pose, and another brought her stuffed animal on the mat to practice with her. Everyone felt supported and we could not have held the class without your support!”
“I started a yoga class in the town close to me after a series of horrific gun related suicides or accidents involving our young people. Since we received the gift of your mats, yoga has helped so many. One girl came just after her mother-in-law died by suicide. She showed up to her mat with tears, but she came to her safe place. This is the power of yoga.”
“This gift [of yoga mats] allowed me to tear down one of the barriers facing the deaf community when it comes to finding accessible yoga.”
Donate now, get your digital goodie bag!
When you make a donation, you will receive a goodie bag via email; it’s our way of saying “thank you.”
This bonus package is filled with rewards and special offers, including:
- replay access to an exclusive yoga class with David Swenson and Beryl Bender Birch
- FREE guided breathing practice and a $50 training voucher from Yoga of 12-Step Recovery
- $50 training voucher from Mindful Yoga Therapy
- FREE guided Meditation for Presence from Elena Brower
- Three-month complimentary membership to the Prison Yoga Project Online Community (valued at $60)
- FREE Yoga Sequence for Anxiety from Amy Ippoliti
- $100 training voucher from Eat Breathe Thrive
- FREE access to 66 guided meditations from iRest, plus $100 discount on Breathing for Life, a twelve month online course with iRest Founder, Richard Miller
- Special offer on the newly launched YoBack, a modular yoga wheel and back pain relief tool
- 20% off all replay packages & passes for Wellness After Covid: A Yoga and Healthcare Symposium
