Our board members guide the vision and operations of Give Back Yoga, empowering us to serve in a sustainable and effective way. Rob Schware, PhD, heads the Give Back Yoga Foundation and is President Ex-Officio & Advisor for the Yoga Service Council. In late 2006, Rob brought his two decades of management experience with the World Bank to a second career: helping to grow the yoga service movement.
He wanted to combine his development and project management expertise in over 30 countries including India, Indonesia, Turkey, Rwanda and Palestine with his passion for yoga, by forming an organization whose mission it is to bring yoga to underserved populations.
He wanted to combine his development and project management expertise in over 30 countries including India, Indonesia, Turkey, Rwanda and Palestine with his passion for yoga, by forming an organization whose mission it is to bring yoga to underserved populations.
Services
Our Mat Grants Program provides yoga teachers with supplies to kickstart yoga outreach projects. We supply and ship free mats to support projects that focus on:. Since 2015, we have shipped nearly 25,000 mats to help yoga teachers lead classes for prisoners, veterans, and people facing physical and mental illness.
We provide full yoga teacher training scholarships to black and ethnic minority people of color. Many of those who practice yoga don't see their identities represented by those who teach it. Our Scholarship Program provides underrepresented individuals an opportunity to not just become certified yoga teachers, but also to apply their knowledge to create inclusive and equitable yoga spaces in their local communities.
Our Legacy Programs offer yoga interventions to vulnerable and under-resourced populations. Our Legacy Programs bring specialized yoga programming to individuals affected by addiction, incarceration, war, eating disorders, and cancer. Over the past twelve years, our programs have brought hundreds of thousands of classes to beneficiaries in forty-six US states and nineteen countries around the world.
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.
How can yoga and mindfulness practices help veterans and first responders lead peaceful, healthy, and productive lives? Join Rob Schware and Founder of Mindful Yoga Therapy, Suzanne Manafort, and discover the benefits of yoga for people affected by severe trauma, the importance of more experienced teachers, and how you can help.
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