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Friday, October 22, 2010
for Living Yoga's 5th Annual Gala
It will be a night to celebrate—filled with beautiful music, delicious food and beverages from Gourmet Productions, area restaurants and distributors, and wonderful auction items to bid on.
Already we have been putting together wonderful live auction items like a Guided Yoga Trip to Peru, Urban Farm, Authentic French Dinner Party, Year of Yoga, Surf Weekend at the Beach, Black Butte Vacation, and Yard Transformation Landscaping Package, and many more. Our Raffle this year will be the selection of one Live Auction Item!
Funds raised through the gala makes our programs possible. Nearly 80% of our total annual budget comes from this event. This funding enables us to develop, foster, organize and coordinate a mass effort to bring yoga programs to prisons, drug and alcohol rehab centers, domestic violence shelters, prostitution services, and other transitional services for youth and adults.
Proceeds from the gala support our programs for hundreds of youth and adult students in more than 20 classes/week (more than 1,040 classes/year) at thirteen different program sites from Vancouver to Portland to Salem.
Mission Statement
Living Yoga is a non-profit outreach program teaching yoga as a tool for personal change in prisons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, transitional facilities, and to populations who would otherwise not have access to it.
Since 1998, Living Yoga has been offering services out in the community to youth and adults to provide yoga as a platform for transformation and growth.
We recognize that the populations we serve have something in common: they are all imprisoned in some way. Some live behind walls and barbed wire, others in the personal prisons created by addiction and abuse. Some of our students bring all of these challenges to the yoga mat. As they open to the grace of yoga, we see them stepping into new ways of being; developing balance, flexibility, strength and freedom in their lives.
