What does World Y.O.G.A. Project do Differently?:

-WYP provides solutions for cultivating generations of healthy children and youth, creating community within schools, and partnering with parents.

-WYP focuses on planting the seed of healthy living within each student through integrating our program into the culture of the school and the school community.

-WYP host an annual Open Forum in the Spring, which provides an opportunity to have school teachers and/or staff members from each school to join us in the discussion on continuing to create positive experiences for their students through Y.O.G.A..

-WYP offers ongoing staff development coaching for our team of yoga teachers, providing them with the tools that they need to feel fully supported, enabling them to offer students truly impactful yoga classes.

-WYP provides yoga sessions for students that build upon a specific curriculum that works to incorporate the benefits of yoga with social reasoning.

-WYP partners with each school on fundraising efforts. Our fundraisers are structured to include the students we serve, their parents/families, the school, and the community.

Our Mission and Vision:

The Y.O.G.A. Foundation or the Youth Obtaining Great Achievements Foundation, a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, proudly offers free, quality yoga services for children in schools nationwide and globally! Our program meets and exceeds U.S. national standards for quality Physical Education. Recognizing the effects of the obesity epidemic on children and the alarming lack of funding for physical education in public and charter schools, we have developed an easy to implement and tremendously beneficial model to keep kids active and healthy.

World Y.O.G.A. Project, which is our core program, focuses on reaching children throughout the United States and worldwide, bringing the practice of yoga to their schools. By doing so, we expect to see substantial benefits to the students, teachers, and schools as a whole.

In addition to the multitude of physical benefits, students will experience greater awareness of their bodies and minds, increased compassion for themselves and others, improved self-confidence and self-control, and a greater ability to be focused on the present moment and the task or situation at hand. The benefits will extend beyond the individual students, into the classroom and enitre school, and then out into the world.