SERVICE YOGA & NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIPS

Our nonprofit’s mission is to deliver trauma-informed, diversity-sensitive, mindfulness-based yoga through partnerships with nonprofit organizations serving marginalized individuals to support healing, resilience, self-development and positive social change.

 

SERVING THE COMMUNITY

Nonprofit Partnerships

Through partnerships with other nonprofits, OG Yoga sends our Yoga Alliance-certified instructors to need-based communities for youth, seniors and adults facing poverty, homelessness, abuse, addiction, PTSD, incarceration and more. We aim to make yoga and mindfulness equally assessable to all.

To date, OG Yoga has worked with over 50 organizations across San Diego to deliver our services to 6,000+ individuals through over 10,000+ class visits. Below are some of the many nonprofits we’ve partnered with.

  • Department of Corrections Custody to Community

    WestCare Foundation specializing in substance abuse rehabilitation is in partnership with the Department of Corrections with a special pilot program in San Diego. A groundbreaking program to break the cycle of recidivism utilizing a multi-dimensional approach.

  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego

    Integrity Charter School and Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego– Bob Payne Family Branch help children lead resilient and healthier lives. 

  • Community Wellness Collaborative

    Community Wellness Collaborative's mission is to promote the use of integrative healing arts to the public and improve access to integrative health care in under-served communities. Since 2008, Community Wellness Collaborative has been hosting weekly free community outreach clinics.

  • San Diego County Schools

    Integrating yoga in schools can support students and teachers. Research has shown that challenges such as stress, anxiety, trauma, and bullying can be eased by yoga. Mind-body practices can help redirect attention, improve concentration, increase self-control, and provide reliable and healthy coping mechanisms.

  • Jewish Family Services: Safe Parking Program

    JFS operates a Safe Parking Program for unsheltered San Diegans living out of their vehicles, many of whom are experiencing homelessness for the first time. The Safe Parking Program provides a welcoming environment, meaningful resources and tools, and dignified support to help families stabilize and transition back into permanent housing.

  • S.O.A.R. Academy at the Juvenile Court

    Here in San Diego, OG Yoga is partnering with San Diego Juvenile Justice system to bring programming to Juvenile Hall (teens awaiting sentencing) and Urban Camps (teens serving sentences). This programming is designed to help these youth access yoga, meditation and mindfulness to heal trauma.

  • Harmonium, Inc. | PrimeTime

    Harmonium is a nonprofit organization based that provides a variety of programs, including after school programs, counseling services, teen programs, and family programs.

  • Project A.W.A.R.E.

    Project A.W.A.R.E. aims to educate at-risk youth and prepare them to take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. They provide a healthy environment where students can safely process their feelings and learn how to effectively incorporate problem-solving skills into their daily lives.

  • Project Access

    A leading provider of vital on-site health, education and employment services to low-income families, children and seniors. Their goal is to give low income families the tools needed to break the cycle of poverty, become healthier, further educated and financially stable.

  • FACES for the Future San Diego

    FACES for the Future San Diego is a comprehensive health careers pathway program that prepares at-risk high school students from City Heights in San Diego for careers that offer livable wages and upward mobility. City Heights is a a richly diverse urban neighborhood where as many as 40 languages are spoken. Many of the residents are foreign born. Fewer than 50% of the adults have a high school education, and 35% live in poverty. FACES students self-select into the program.

  • The Girls Rehabilitation Facility

    The Girls Rehabilitation Facility (GRF) is a residential detention facility for the rehabilitation of delinquent girls between the ages of 11 and 18. A report by the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law School shows that yoga programs can be particularly effective at helping girls who are incarcerated cope with the effects of trauma that many have experienced. Research shows yoga and mindfulness can promote healthier relationships, increase concentration, and improve self esteem and physical health.

  • Girls Scouts San Diego Outreach

    The Girl Scout Outreach program delivers the unmatched power of Girl Scouting to underserved neighborhoods. Every year, GSO serves over 4,000 girls, ages 5-14 from low-resource communities in 60 schools throughout San Diego County,

  • Just in Time for Foster Youth

    JIT is a San Diego nonprofit with a mission to engage a caring community to help transition age foster youth achieve self-sufficiency and well-being.

  • Braille Institute

    Braille Institute's mission is to eliminate barriers to a fulfilling life caused by blindness and severe sight loss by providing an environment of hope and encouragement through integrated educational, social and recreational programs and services.

  • Naval Brig

    Naval Consolidated Brig is a military prison operated by the U.S. Navy at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It serves as the region's confinement and correctional facility for both pre-trial and post-trial prisoners and is available for use by commands of all four of the Armed Services and the Coast Guard.

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    San Diego Center for Change

    Mental Health Systems’ San Diego Center for Change is the treatment provider on the Drug Court Team. San Diego Center for Change helps clients achieve success in living a productive life that is free of criminal activity. Treatment services offer group and individual counseling, and case management services provide for mental health, education, employment and community referral needs.

  • Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)

    CEO) offers individuals just coming home from prison the ongoing support necessary to build career capital and financial stability. As the largest reentry employment provider in the country, CEO is using scale, experience, and data – backed by our participants’ feedback on what works – to change the way government invests in criminal justice and workforce development.

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    Neuro-Rehab Management, Inc.

    Neuro-Rehab Management, Inc. (NRM) is an independent case management agency that provides case management and community support services to individuals who are living with a brain injury, neurological illness or neuromuscular condition.

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    SAY San Diego

    From before- and after-school programs and early childhood services to therapy services for youth and adults, to support for key populations, like the region’s local military families, SAY San Diego strives to make sure that every San Diegan can get the help they need, whenever and wherever they need it.

  • Villa de Vida

    Villa de Vida is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enable adults with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible by building residential communities with a resident support coordinator and community enriched activities that meet the needs of each resident.

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    San Diego Center for Children

    With over 130 years of experience in caring for children and teens who are struggling and often at-risk, the San Diego Center for Children has gained a reputable standing as an expert leader in improving the safety and quality of life for families in need.

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    Father Joe's Villages

    Established in 1950 to serve San Diegans experiencing homelessness and poverty, Father Joe’s Villages has grown to include a comprehensive campus and scattered-site programs that house over 2,000 people nightly.

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    NCRC's DA Juvenile Diversion Initiative

    The Juvenile Diversion Initiative is a countywide early intervention program that prioritizes diversion options for youth instead of filing criminal charges. Current initiatives focus on underserved youth and adults, and those individuals facing poverty, incarceration, and transition back into community. OG Yoga is on-site at Community Wellness Collaborative Free Clinic, Braille Institute, Rehab-Neuro Management for Disabled Veterans, Villa de Vida for Developmentally Disabled. New initiatives include Father Joe's Villages, San Diego Center for Children, SOUL Academy Court School, NCRC DA’s Juvenile Diversion Initiative, and the Youth Transition Campus.

INVITE OG YOGA TO SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY

OG Yoga will come on- site to your organization and deliver a restorative, meditative and mindful yoga practice for your community. We provide all the equipment along with a trauma-certified instructor to take you through a practice designed to promote healing, resilience, and reduce recidivism for our most vulnerable populations. Let us know how we can be of service to you!

 

 

OUR WORK IS FAR FROM OVER, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Support our mission and promote healing by helping us bring yoga and mindfulness practices to those populations who need it most - youth, homeless, people with disabilities, veterans, and many others.

  • $50 SUPPORTS ONE STUDENT

  • $250 FUNDS AN ENTIRE CLASS

  • $2,500 FUNDS A 10-WEEK NON-PROFIT PARTNERSHIP

 

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