YogaFit's Mission
The mission of YogaFit is to bring Yoga to the masses. When
only 10% of the U.S. population belongs to a health club,
our need to get people moving is necessary. Yoga is a gift
for the body and the mind. At our flagship YogaFit Studio
in Hermosa Beach, CA we began offering Yoga classes for donation
only. The community responded gratefully. We believe that
if everyone in the world gave one hour per week of community
service work, the world be a better place. That is why we
require every YogaFit Level One trainee to perform 8 hours
of practice teaching in a community service setting before
receiving a Certificate of Completion.
Our trainees have
brought the practice and benefits of Yoga to seniors in long
term care homes, stressed-out corporate executives, cancer
patients and survivors, disabled persons, incarcerated persons,
terminally ill persons, children, mentally challenged individuals
and military servants, just to name a few.
The Community Service Program gives our trainees the opportunity
to practice their new teaching skills in a less stressful
environment with an appreciative audience. As the thousands
of letters we receive in our corporate office, state, volunteering
time and energy has proven to be the most rewarding experience
for many of our Trainees. YogaFit is dedicated to this work
as it promotes the essence of giving and sharing freely.
YogaFit encourages and supports the philosophy of “Conscious
Business”. In this Millennium we believe the companies
that are socially responsible will prosper from good will
and good karma. Together we are changing
the paradigm of what it means to do good business… really
good business.
Since
1997, YogaFit instructors have given roughly a half a million
or 56 years of community
service. Together,
they've brought yoga to at-risk youth, the elderly, disabled
adults and children, stressed-out employees, teenage
mothers, churches, synagogues and prisons." Beth Shaw
serves on the Board of many animal rescue organizations and
on National Leadership Council for the Humane Society of
the United States.
Here are just a few of the organizations
that YogaFit donates to on a regular basis:
•
Karma Rescue
• Meals on Wheels
• Pugs and Pals
• Humane Society
• Women for Women International
• Human Rights Campaign
• America's Second Harvest
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UNICEF
• Khushi Charitable Foundation
• Save The Children Foundation
• Action Against Hunger
• OXFAM
• The ONE (Fight against hunger) |
Please click here for important
news and projects YogaFit is currently involved in
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