"Off the Mat" Yoga In Action Group

Dates: Wed 9/29/2010 – 11/10/2010
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Cost: $325; SAVE $50 if you register by 9/15. Cost includes course work, course materials, asana practice and FREE Saturday classes with Shiya for the 7 weeks.

Yoga in Action is OTM’s grassroots movement that brings the Off the Mat experience to your local area. These 7-week groups are an opportunity to build community around yoga and service, develop relationships with other yogis and activists in your area and collaborate on creating real change.

Yoga in Action small groups allow participants to embark on a journey of self-inquiry with the support of a small group of peers that leads to action within our community and outside world. OTM’s vision is to seed these small groups of change in communities to inspire collaboration and connection among our community of yoga activists.

Off the Mat, Into the World® (OTM), a program of the nonprofit, The Engage Network, is dedicated to bridging yoga and activism. Founded in 2007, OTM’s mission is to use the power of yoga to inspire conscious, sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change.

We will work on grounding and understanding what conscious activism is; on self-inquiry, learning what skills we already have that we can call upon as activists; on finding our passion, diving deeper into what and where we want to put our efforts; on our interconnectedness, how to cope with stress, how to give and receive support; on how to become an effective activist; on beginning to take action. As a group you will begin to develop a seva project.