Through Sunnyfield Independence YogaAid have been working hard on a pilot yoga program. For a year now, 5 individuals with intellectual disabilities have been taking part in one on one yoga classes in a local studio, mixing with the community and experiencing extraordinary health and personal benefits. The yoga program will be rolled out to their 13 day centres across NSW. This project includes research elements – YogaAid has a dream to present evidence of yoga’s health benefits to government, and eventually persuade health funding to support preventative health as well curative approaches. This is start.

Anahata Healing is an initiative that facilitates access to yoga for those who have been affected by cancer in order to promote healing and well being.

Research has shown that a regular yoga and meditation practice can have an amazing impact on the well being of those people affected by cancer. This includes those who have been diagnosed, those undergoing treatment, those coming out the other side of treatment and of course family members and carers.

Yoga can help combat stress and anxiety, it can also help in gently building physical strength and an overall sense of wellbeing and self confidence.

When someone registers to become a member of the Anahata Healing community, we will find a teacher or studio that best meets their needs and the studios offering – so you will never be inundated with requests or contacted directly.

How does it work?

For those who have been affected by cancer, they simply need to fill out a simple form on our website and tell us a little about their situation. All information provided is strictly confidential between them, us and their chosen studio or yoga teacher.

We will then provide them with an Anahata Healing membership number and match them with the teacher or studio that best meets their yoga requirements. Your yoga mat will be offered to them to encourage their practice.

The Art2Healing Project is an Australian based non-profit organization founded by Lydia Atira Tan in 2005. The project supports and empowers trafficked women and children suffering emotional and psychological wellbeing through creativity and embodied practices.

The Art2Healing Project believes in a holistic approach to healing, where a deep connection exists between body and mind. Through art therapy, yogameditation and education on women's health, the project has helped to set up art thereapy and yoga programs wikth anti-trafficking organizations in 8 countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Kali Shub supports a school and Hostel in Bali- it is run from a hotel- where Teenagers orphaned or underprivileged, homeless are taken in; the boys and girls live in two big dormitories. They are schooled in normal high school curriculum and they are taught English plus a scattering of other languages, all of them learn the ins and out of running a hotel resort, and health spa, plus all their own Balinese culture~ Arts Dance Song etc. The whole affair is run in a very spiritual manner. The teenagers are so innocent and sweet they all must do yoga every day and also learn to teach yoga. They need masses of yoga mats and yoga books. The hotel struggles to feed and keep these children- all the funds from the hotel go back into its overheads and looking after and teaching the children. http://www.baliheritagevillage.com/bali-foundation/history.html The Hotel is old but spacious in the rice paddies of Mass the children even grow their own vegetables as well. They have a strong green commitment. http://www.baliheritagevillage.com/suly-resort/ The students are so unbelievably loving and sweet . They really deserve the yoga mats you have to give away Thank you.