Centro Guadalupano
Located in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, Centro Guadalupano serves immigrant families and the economically disadvantaged by providing educational programs and human services. One Yoga instructors teach yoga immediately following ESL classes and provide a unique class in Spanish for Latina immigrants. www.guadcenter.org
One Yoga Teachers: Michele Streitz and Jessica Flannigan
High School for Recording Arts
This alternative high school in St. Paul teaches a hip-hop based curriculum in order to reach students who typically fall through the cracks at traditional schools. They serve students who are not only at-risk, but in-risk: 30-40% are homeless, 60% have been adjudicated, and 97% qualify for free and reduced lunches. One Yoga provides weekly yoga and meditation as a way to help these students heal and learn techniques for handling themselves in challenging situations.
One Yoga Teacher: Shira Charis
Innovative Supports to Empower Parents (INSTEP)
INSTEP is a childcare center that provides high quality part-time care focused on early childhood education and school readiness for children that typically fall through the cracks of traditional assistance programs. They make care accessible to families who do not qualify for subsidy, are seeking or waiting for permanent childcare, or cannot afford or require traditional full-time models. INSTEP also provides family support advocacy and parent group learning sessions. One Yoga offers family yoga as part of INSTEP’s programming to promote health and wellness in families and to strengthen parent-child bonds. www.jabbokfamilyservices.org/Instep.html
One Yoga Teacher: Jessica Flannigan
Project for Pride In Living
Project for Pride in Living (PPL) offers a variety of services to the community including affordable housing, transitional housing, welfare-to-work programs, housing development, learning center, three charter schools, after-school programming, and train-to-work programs. It is often the case that people who dedicate their professional lives to helping others are forgotten in the process. One Yoga hopes to remedy this situation by offering yoga to the AmeriCorps volunteers and staff of Project for Pride in Living. One Yoga has provided yoga classes at PPL for almost two years including offering several series for PPL program participants. www.projectforprideinliving.org
One Yoga Teacher: Angela Vincent
Second Harvest Heartland
Second Harvest Heartland works to reinvent hunger relief through leadership and innovation. As the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization, the goal of Second Harvest is not only to help hungry neighbors today, but to provide the means for everyone to be fed tomorrow. One Yoga is offering yoga classes for Second Harvest Heartland’s staff as part of their wellness program. www.2harvest.org
One Yoga Teacher: Shira Charis
Stadium View School
The Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation partners with the Minneapolis Public Schools to provide residents at the Juvenile Detention Center the opportunity to earn high school credits that are transferable to their home school. Residents who have not graduated from high school or have not earned a GED are enrolled in Stadium View School. One Yoga provides yoga instruction each week as a part of the residents’ physical education classes. Youth at Stadium View are newly incarcerated and can benefit from the mental clarity and peace that yoga can bring.
One Yoga Teacher: Baron Carr
Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPPP) at Roosevelt and South High Schools
This program for teen mothers offers a series of high school courses focusing on parenting as a teenager including topics of: roles and relationships of teens as parents, parenting issues to be faced, and the impact of these issues on both their lives and their children’s, facets of parenting practices of individual families and cultures as well-as child development and nutrition. One Yoga offers weekly yoga and infant massage instruction for the mothers and children in this program.
One Yoga Teacher: Nissa Valdez
University of Minnesota - National Institute of Health Study
This University of Minnesota research study is part of a 5-year NIH-funded grant to prevent unhealthy weight gain in two-year college students. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of three intervention approaches designed to help students attending two-year colleges adopt healthier behaviors in order to maintain a healthy weight. Their key behaviors focus on nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and sleep. Two of the three intervention approaches include doing yoga as a stress management technique. The study is being conducted as one credit wellness courses, called “Sleep, Eat and Exercise,” for several local community colleges. As a part of the curriculum, One Yoga will be teaching two yoga sessions for each college class.
One Yoga Teacher: Ben Vincent
Wellshare International
Wellshare International works to improve the health of women, children, and their communities around the world. One Yoga is partnering with Wellshare to offer yoga classes as part of a 10-week wellness curriculum in Minneapolis Public Schools educating Somali youth about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity. www.wellshareinternational.org
One Yoga Teacher: Paula Landis
Our Past Partners
District 287- offered yoga to help achieve the school district’s mission of providing innovative specialized services to ensure that each member of the district can meet the unique learning needs of its students. www.district287.org
Community University Health Care Center (CUCCH)- serves many who are uninsured in the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis. One Yoga offered yoga classes in Spanish as part of a diabetes support group for Latina women. www.ahc.umn.edu/cuhc
Dr. Sam- has used an innovative “membership model” in his NE Minneapolis family medical practice. One Yoga worked with his practice to offer care to mostly uninsured artists and build a “holistic” community of providers around his practice. www.doctorsam.us
Partners in Violence Prevention- PVP offers a critical link for families, health care and community organizations to develop and nurture a culture of peace in St. Paul and surrounding communities through collaboration and the provision of education and resources.
Abbot Northwestern and Clare Housing in the Positive Motion project – working to bring physical exercise and wellness activities to adults living with HIV/ AIDS and related health issues.
Chrysalis/ Tubman Alliance – providing yoga and a positive experience of the body to women facing personal challenges.
Jeremiah Program – working with young mothers who are working on education and life skills to better support themselves and their families.
LifeWorks – providing yoga classes to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Metro Urology Foundation – working with people are receiving education, resources and treatment as a result of urological cancers.
NET program at Northwest Youth and Family Services – providing yoga classes for emotionally disturbed youth.
Simpson Housing – offering yoga to those in temporary housing sites.
St. Mary’s Clinic – providing yoga classes to the primarily Hispanic mothers and their children who come to the clinic.
