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Yoga, calm and life skills for young people who are offered them least.

Yoga Angels Foundation brings yoga, mindfulness and practical life skills to youth and underserved communities in Jamaica and the United States. Our work began in 1997.

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We teach the tools that help a person stay steady: breath, movement, focus, and the habit of thinking a choice through.

Yoga Angels Foundation combines yoga, music, movement, the arts and other wellness practices to support healing and personal change. We go where yoga usually isn't offered, and we train local teachers so the practice keeps going after we leave.

Who we serve

  • Children and teens in low-income communities
  • Young people in juvenile centers
  • Families and neighbors
  • Police, correctional and youth workers
  • Aspiring teachers who cannot afford training
About the Foundation
Children sitting on a mat with their arms raised high, smiling
A children's class with Yoga Angels.

Our programs

Every program shows its honest status: running now, delivered when a community invites us, or waiting on funding to start again.

All programs
  • Paused, seeking funding

    Wellness And Mindfulness (WAM)

    Yoga, breathwork and life skills for young people in Jamaica's juvenile centers, with facility staff trained to keep teaching after we leave.

    Kingston and St. Catherine, Jamaica

  • Running now

    Teacher Training Scholarships

    Help for people from underserved communities to train as certified yoga teachers, so new teachers come from the places that need them most.

    Jamaica and the United States

  • By invitation

    Community Wellness and Life Skills

    Yoga classes, life skills seminars and workshops brought to schools, churches, workplaces and community spaces when a local partner invites us.

    Jamaica and Los Angeles

What the work has added up to

We only publish what we can document. As records from earlier programs are gathered, this grows.

How we measure impact
  • Since 1997 teaching yoga to children, later in schools across the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Unified districts.
  • 3 juvenile centers in Jamaica where our Wellness And Mindfulness program has run: South Camp, Rio Cobre and Metcalfe Street.
  • 11 teachers certified at Rio Cobre so classes could continue without outside instructors.
Sandra “Subhadra” Griffiths smiling, seated on stones by the sea

“The need to improve life skills, particularly conflict resolution, decision making, critical thinking and future planning among communities and police is undisputed.”

Sandra “Subhadra” Griffiths, founder

Born in Jamaica, Subhadra has taught yoga to children since 1997 and trained yoga teachers since 2000. She brought classes into schools in Los Angeles and led the Foundation's work in Jamaica's juvenile centers.

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Nearly three decades of teaching

From children's classes in Los Angeles to programs inside Jamaica's juvenile centers.

Full history

  1. 1997

    Classes for children in Los Angeles

    Sandra “Subhadra” Griffiths starts teaching yoga to children. The work that becomes Yoga Angels grows from these classes, later reaching schools in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Unified school districts.

  2. 2015–2018

    Wellness And Mindfulness in juvenile centers

    Yoga Angels brings its WAM program into Jamaican juvenile facilities, including South Camp, Rio Cobre and Metcalfe Street, as part of “A New Path”, a youth initiative of the Organization of American States funded by USAID.

  3. 2017–2018

    Eleven teachers certified at Rio Cobre

    At the Rio Cobre center in Spanish Town, WAM trains and certifies eleven teachers, so classes can continue without outside instructors.

  4. 2022

    Recognized as a 501(c)(3)

    The IRS recognizes Yoga Angels Foundation as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3), so gifts from US donors are tax-deductible.

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Who you are giving to

Yoga Angels Foundation is a registered US nonprofit. Our details are public, and we send our IRS determination letter and filings to anyone who asks.

Legal name
Yoga Angels Foundation
Tax status
Tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible.
EIN
81-5454012
IRS ruling year
2022
Location on IRS record
Los Angeles, California
Address
9350 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 210, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, United States
Organization information

Talk to us

Questions about giving, programs or partnerships go straight to the Foundation team.

Locations
Beverly Hills, California, and Kingston, Jamaica
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