by YGB | Nov 13, 2019 | Global News
“Don’t tell your girls to wear decent clothes – tell your boys to behave,” reads a sign at a vigil for the victim of a brutal 2012 gangrape in New Delhi (Credit: Getty Images) Every day around the world, 137 women are killed by an intimate partner or a...
by YGB | Oct 30, 2019 | #OneMillionYogis
“ I am honored to work with Yoga Gives Back to help express gratitude for how Yoga has shaped her life; and specifically to provide direct opportunities for women and children in her cherished India. I am inspired by the commitment of Kayoko Mitsumatsu to provide the...
by YGB | Oct 29, 2019 | Your Donation's Impact
Rupa grew up in one of the poorest villages, in North Karnataka, India. Rupa doesn’t know her father and lived together with her mother and her grandmother. She doesn’t have any siblings. Rupas’s mother died a after six months of fighting a deadly disease. With the...
by YGB | Oct 15, 2019 | Your Donation's Impact
This story is a testament of how your contribution is making a profound impact in somebody’s life in India. In 2007, we first met Guruprasad in Bangalore on YGB’s first official visit to India. He was a shy high school student with little English. His mother...
by YGB | Oct 15, 2019 | #OneMillionYogis
“Yoga is excellence in action. ‘Yogah Karmasu kausalam’. For me yogagivesback is karma yoga. When I found a group of yoga teachers doing their excellent selfless work towards a wonderful cause I looked no further. I joined the one million yogis by hosting...
