Creating Opportunities for Others
to Do Good through Yoga

Grants Now Closed

We believe in the transformative power of yoga and want to share it with everyone. Each year, we award grants to inspired and passionate yoga teachers and organisations with an ambition to do good in their community.

Since inception, we’ve awarded 42 grants to remarkable people making a real difference.

Be inspired by their stories.

Our 2024 grant program is now closed. We’ve been overwhelmed by the high standard of entries and will be in touch with all applicants in due course.

Grants Now Closed

Community yoga classes

We are passionate about sharing the joy of practising yoga and offering you an opportunity to connect with your true self on a regular basis.
View previous classes or book now for our next class.

Free
Tue, 22 Oct, 9am - 10am PST

Yoga for Good Community Class with Amy Brooks

Join Amy for a trauma-informed gentle flow Community Class with a particular focus on noticing internal sensations and making choices.

Amy Brooks is a qualified social worker, mental health clinician and yoga facilitator certified in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) based in the Shoalhaven, NSW. She has been practicing yoga for over a decade and passionately believes in its healing qualities for the mind and body, making it an effective adjunct therapy for mental health work. Amy completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Om Sweet Om Milton in 2022.

She is offering yoga classes to the community, combining her professional training and lived experience as a source of strength to guide others on their own journey towards recovery.

Free
9th November 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Suze Male - Transformative Yoga Community Class

Online Yoga Community Class Link

Join Suze from 42 Yoga for a transformative yoga class focused on balancing the sacral chakra, the centre of creativity and passion. She believes yoga is the key to body, mind wellness and healing. After practicing for many years and teacher training in Bali and India, she is using these skills with children’s and trauma-informed yoga.

Her new book, a yoga-for-kids adventure called Ursula the Roly Poly Unicorn, helps children develop strong self-esteem, through story and yoga as a positive and empowering tool.

BOOK: Ursula the Roly Poly Unicorn: A Yoga-For-Kids Adventure about Self-Esteem and Loving Yourself Just as You Are – 42 YOGA

In this class with gentle flows, breathwork and mindful practices, we will cultivate energy, release blockages, and ignite the creative spirit, as well as explore the profound connection between body, mind, and creative expression.

Free
22nd January 2025 - 12:00 to 1:00pm

Reetu Verma – Transformative Yoga Community Class

Online Yoga Community Class Link

Meeting ID: 859 1833 4994
Passcode: 171949

Join Reetu for an immersive meditation session into the depths of our energy centres. Nourish the systems of your physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, ready for the year ahead. Be guided by her inspiring voice to relax into meditation and reconnect with and balance the subtle energies within.

Reetu Verma has 25 years of experience as an academic, teacher and coach, providing support, help and guidance to thousands of people from all walks of life from all over the globe.

During a traumatic near-death experience, she experienced pure light and pure love and embarked on a transformational, personal healing journey. Inspired and totally committed to making a positive difference in the lives of others, helping them on their healing journey to live a healthier, happier life.

She founded Healing, Health and Happiness to expanded her teachings of personal development, into finding life purpose and spiritual growth. Reetu has developed a systematic, practical approach to bring more harmony and a sense of joy into life.

Free
22nd October 2024 - 12:00 to 1:00pm, Tuesday

Amy Brooks – Trauma Informed Yoga Community Class

Online Yoga Community Class Link 

Join Amy for a trauma-informed gentle flow Community Class with a particular focus on noticing internal sensations and making choices.

Amy Brooks is a qualified social worker, mental health clinician and yoga facilitator certified in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) based in the Shoalhaven, NSW. She has been practicing yoga for over a decade and passionately believes in its healing qualities for the mind and body, making it an effective adjunct therapy for mental health work. Amy completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Om Sweet Om Milton in 2022.

She is offering yoga classes to the community, combining her professional training and lived experience as a source of strength to guide others on their own journey towards recovery.

About Us

Rooted in true yoga. Giving back with selfless service.

Inspiring good through yoga

Whether you are a yoga teacher, a yoga enthusiast or a beginner yogi, our platform offers you content, inspiration and events that provide the tools to live your best life through yoga.

We are firm believers that yoga – both the physical practice and everyday application of yoga off the mat – has the capacity to change lives for the better.

Our values are our guideposts, our true north. We create all our content and programs with these values in mind. We also believe in giving back. It’s more than just a value – this is our reason for being.

Testimonials

Our sole mission is to create opportunities to do good for others through yoga.
And we’re making an impact.

A huge thank you to the Yoga For Good Foundation...

…for their incredible contribution to our Life Now Yoga and meditation programs!

This generous donation will mean we can buy new yoga equipment, run a new yoga class in Broome, and enhance our meditation program for cancer patients and their primary carers.

Cancer Council Western Australia

Sending out gratitude to the Yoga for Good Foundation.

Their grant is enabling me to offer FREE trauma informed therapeutic movement and relaxation to frontline mental health and social services staff in Bega.

Participants are really valuing the time out for themselves and experiencing integrated poly vagal theory. And I get to be in a teaching space, yay!

PremKranti Counselling

The generous grant we've been awarded from the Yoga For Good Foundation...

…allows us to reach more underserved and vulnerable community groups who can benefit from a trauma-informed yoga and embodied mindfulness practice at zero cost to the participants.

Some of the community groups we’ll be serving in the current months include 000 Foundation, Men’s Walk and Talk and WAGEC.

Yoga on the Inside

Articles

How neuroscience and meridian yoga therapy are transforming anxiety through the storybook ‘Butterflies Be Gone!’ By Dr Adele Vincent

In this article, previous grantee Adele Vincent shares how neuroscience and meridian yoga therapy transform anxiety through her storybook “Butterflies Be Gone!” Children and adults don’t have to live with anxiety. That’s why Adele teamed up with Loraine Rushton of Zenergy Yoga to publish this book with help from YFG.

YFG Annual Retreat 2024 through the words of our participants

Join us as we reflect on the YFG Annual Retreat 2024, an event that exceeded our expectations in creating lasting memories. Set against the serene backdrop of nature, attendees embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Here, Moira recounts her thoughts and includes the voices of our participants.

Embracing self-love as spring awakens

As the earth begins to wake from its winter slumber, spring arrives with a promise of renewal and rebirth. For many, this season signifies a fresh start—a time to shed the old and welcome the new. From a yogic perspective, spring is about embracing self-love and is a powerful reminder to reconnect with our true selves.