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ORGANIZATIONS

Yoga Bharati

MISSION
To serve the community by: offering affordable
classes and workshops to support a healthy
lifestyle; offering training courses backed by
evidence based yoga techniques to enable
transformation of the self and the society ; and
promoting yoga and its benefits through community
engagement.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Since inception, the Bay Area chapter of Yoga
Bharati has offered over 50,000 hours of free
classes to the community
• We have offered 10,000 hours of yoga as
therapy on cost basis to patients with chronic
ailments
• 5,000 hours of yoga for children have been
offered
• We have served over 50,000 people in the Bay
Area over the last two decades
• We have trained over 600 yoga teachers
• Over 100 people have taken advanced teacher
training and diploma in Yoga Therapy classes
• We offer prenatal yoga, corporate yoga, yoga
for the blind, yoga for seniors, yoga for drug
rehabilitation, and yoga for various chronic
ailments

GUIDING PRINCIPLES MAJOR PROJECTS
Education should be a character building endeavor. • Education - Yoga Teacher Training, and Diploma
Yoga can do so. Swami Vivekananda hoped that in Yoga Therapy courses
religion and spirituality would be the death-knell • Service: Yoga classes, Yoga therapy, Yoga
of all fanaticism and of all uncharitable feelings Yagna, celebrating International Day of Yoga,
between persons wending their way to the same and participating in Sevathon -- a yoga marathon
goal. Yoga alone can take us closer to this dream. program
These are our principles that guide our work.

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