The Art of Yoga Project
Non-profit OrganizationsCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
The Art of Yoga Project is a nonprofit based in Redwood City in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides mindfulness-based practices to system-involved and other marginalized youth to support healing and empowerment. Its approach relies on trauma-informed teachers who offer tools for self-awareness and self-regulation to help youth move from vulnerability toward resilience, with programming delivered in settings such as detention and rehabilitation centers, substance abuse recovery programs, agencies serving commercially sexually exploited children, Level 14 facilities for youth with high psychiatric needs, and schools. The organization collaborates with county behavioral health, education, probation, judiciary, and departments of children, youth and family services to implement its programming.