Thanks to everyone who joined to take action to give back
and assist India in COVID-19 Crisis. More than 70 events in 21 countries raised over $45,000!
We can empower many more lives at this difficult time in India.
The United Nations proclaimed June 21 as International Yoga Day to recognize the global impact of this ancient practice. This is the perfect time to express our gratitude for the gift of yoga that enriches our lives, especially during this time.
It is our goal to mobilize a community of #OneMillionYogis worldwide.
More than 1400 women and children we support in India remain most vulnerable, facing the second surge of COVID-19 which will add severe economic devastation to their lives.
Choose your way to give back!
Join YGB’s esteemed Ambassadors supporting this global campaign to give back to Mother India.
Seane Corn
Lisa Walford
Gurmukh
Kino MacGregor
David Swenson
Michiko Minegishi
Anouk Prop
Laruga Glaser
Kia Miller
Kathryn Budig
Marysia Do
Maneesh Kalra
Lauren Peterson
Wendy Chan
Mina Lee
Harmony Slater
Jocelyn Solomon
Chama
Mia Togo
Elena Brower
Nihan Hantal
Mark Robberds
Sarah Platt-Finger
Mariko Hirakawa
Birgette Kristen
Deepika Mehta
Marc Holzman
Kiyomi Takahashi
Haidar Watanabe
Daphne Tse
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YGB Special Sessions
Program
Date & Time
Teachers
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Program
Conference “Living Yamas and Niyamas” followed by Q & A
Date & Time
Sat June 19, 10 -11:30 a.m. PST/1-2:30p.m. EST USA,
7-8:30 p.m./Amsterdam
Teachers
Anouk Prop, Beryl Bender Birch, David Swenson, Lis Walford, Wanda Akin
“Ahimsa, Fear and Racial Justice” , A Brief Note by Wanda Akin Brown & Raymond M Brown
Program
“Ayurvedic Self-Care for Yogis”
FREE sessions sponsored by Banyan Botanicals
Date & Time
Sun June 20 , 8:00 a.m.- 1 p.m. PST/ 11a.m. – 4 p.m. EST/ 4 p.m.- 9 p.m. GMT
Teachers
Session 1: 8:00 AM PST “Sva-Dharma: Discovering Our Unique Purpose Through Ayurveda (Vinyasa and Q&A)“ Mariko Hirakawa
Session 2: 10:00 AM PST – ‘YOGA of Ayurveda” Conversation with Kia Miller, Laura Plumb
Session 3: 11:30 PM PST – Ayurveda 101 with Anjali Deva and Mila Grass
Program
Conference “ Yoga in time of COVID-19” (in Japanese)
Date & Time
Monday, June 21
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Japan Time/ 8 -9:30 p.m. PST USA
Teachers
Chama, Haidar Watanabe, Kiyomi Takahashi, Michiko Minegishi, Maneesh Kalra
Program
“Yoga & Health Remedies from World Class Teachers”
Recorded Sessions Package
Date & Time
June 21: 3:30-4:30pm IG LIVE “introduction”
Teachers
Larry Payne, Philip Goldberg, Julie Carmen and more.
Program
“Global Online Gathering: Benefit for India” with100 Artists from 25 Countries, Sponsored by LiveKick, In partnership with Hanuman Festival, PURE YOGA, Samahita Retreat, Global Mala Project Manila, The Vibrance Collective and more.
Date & Time
Friday June 25 – Sunday June 27
Teachers
Featuring Krishna Das, Belinda Carlisle, Deva Premal and Mitten, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, Donna DeLory, Sacred Earth,
Shiva Rea, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Ana Forrest and many more! MUSIC, MANTRA, MOVEMENT & MEDITATION
3 DAYS • 12 HOURS EACH DAY • BY DONATION
ASIA
EUROPE & Africa
MIDDLE EAST
north america
OCEANIA
Our goal is to raise $50,000 with this global campaign to assist urgent COVID-19 relief needs as well as to ensure that more than 1400 mothers and children can continue to empower themselves with YGB’s micro loan and education programs at this difficult time.
Please check YGB’s Covid-19 Response details.
Thank you to these generous sponsors
Empower Sponsors ($3500)
Gratitude Sponsor ($1500)
Support Sponsor ( $500)
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Testimonials
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“I immediately resonated with Yoga Gives Back’s ethos as it truly shows karma yoga in action. When I look at the kind of aid the YGB campaigns support, I see how not only “the price of one yoga class can change a life” but potentially generations. Being able to support women to start a business or gain vocational skills to help them move out of poverty, cultivate entrepreneurship and gain independence will have a profound effect on their whole families now and in the future. So what to us might seem like a drop in the ocean will create a lasting rippling effect. This is such an inspiring way to create sustained change. Supporting YGB also gives me the opportunity to give something back to the motherland of my practice, the practice for which I am so profoundly grateful. Yoga shows me how to find freedom and choice in my own life, so I am honored to be working with YGB to provide the women we support in India with freedom and choices which aren’t naturally available to them.”
Show your gratitude and compassion as a yoga practitioner, yoga teacher or just as a human being and join us in supporting real change. No one ever became poor of giving. Are you with us?”
“Recently, the most unfathomable thing happened to me. I was laid off from my job as a Pharmacist Project Manager after working for the same organization for 33 years. It was a shocking experience that I will never forget. Instead of wallowing in my sorrow, I chose to help those who need help. Since a year ago, I started practicing Yoga and Meditation to relief stress and anxiety. I met the founder of Yoga Gives Back (YGB) at a Yoga pop up class. Yoga Gives Back is an organization that helps empower women and provide scholarship to children and orphans by using ‘Micro-financing’, an unconventional financing to support women to start their own businesses.”
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