Vijisha Venkatram
Soul Space, the journey within running Community Courses
Vijisha Venkatram and her team offer community classes through ‘Soul Space, The Journey Within,’ a nonprofit that provides yoga, meditation, workshops, and coaching. They aim to foster individual and community wellbeing, rooted in mindfulness, meditation, and yoga principles, and are accessible to everyone.
Through collaboration with Wyndham Council, local community centres host classes and workshops. In Melbourne’s Wyndham area, adults experience higher rates of ill health, isolation and psychological distress, leading to insufficient physical activity. Building on past successes like Older Adult yoga and parenting workshops, initiatives such as guest speakers on wellbeing topics alongside yoga classes spurred Vijisha to apply for a YFG Grant to expand programs.
Supporting Soul Space with sound healing and more
The YFG grant supported Soul Space in hosting ‘Parenting Better’ Sessions for multicultural families and yoga sessions. These sessions help parents navigate culture and intergenerational trauma, promoting emotional regulation for both parents and children through science and behavioural techniques. Additionally, the grant facilitated a series of yoga classes with sound healing led by Jennifer Tang.
Soul Space programs now include Children’s Yoga, Indian Dance Workout, and Yoga in the Park, all of which are aimed at teaching participants to interpret their body and mind signals for inner guidance. Mathumitha specialises in offering traditional Yoga tailored to the needs and limitations of seniors, fostering community and enhancing overall health and mental wellbeing.
Soul Space, the journey within, is for everyone.
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 AustraliaSending 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 CounsellingThe 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.
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