Om is Where the Heart Is
If you’ve taken yoga classes you know that the centuries-old technique has the power to restore and rejuvenate—it’s why you always feel better on your way out of the class than you did on your way in. So imagine how amazing you’d feel if you were way, way out. Like, say, way out in Africa.
In July, the Africa Yoga Project is sending people who believe in the healing power of yoga to Kenya for twelve days. Participants in this Seva Safari—“seva” means “selfless service”—work alongside community members poverty-stricken Nairobi neighborhoods, helping to further AYP’s mission: using yoga to empower communities and change lives.
Every yogi is immersed in local culture, spending a night with an AYP yoga teacher’s family, visiting Amboseli National Park (where giraffes and baby elephants are part of the local scenery), bonding over cups of chai, and participating in the weekly yoga practice that brings together yoga teachers and students from all around Nairobi.
Each participant raises $5,000 before heading to Kenya in order to cover program costs, and space is limited—so inhale. Exhale. Now bend and stretch your way into making a difference in East Africa.
Can't make it Africa? Pick up an Africa Yoga Project tee shirt for $40. All of the proceeds go to AYP so they can continue healing through yoga.
The Africa Yoga Project uses the transformative power of yoga to empower communities and change lives, working to foster non-violence, cultivate unity, and create possibility. By inspiring the global yoga community into active service, AYP delivers effective and innovative programs that foster peace, improve physical, emotion and mental wellbeing, facilitate self-sufficiency and create opportunities to learn and contribute across the communities of East Africa.
