How yoga has impacted my life
“To talk about how Yoga has impacted my life, I have to start by talking about my first Yoga experience. It was May 2015 about 6 weeks out from major ankle surgery. On my way to the VA Hospital for a follow-up ankle visit, I called a local non-profit and they happened to be holding space for a gentle yoga and iRest class that day.”
Jaguars announce $67,500 in grants to local nonprofits serving military and veterans
Yoga 4 Change –Offers in-person and virtual trauma-informed yoga classes for veterans.
My Yoga Perspective: From the Army to the Yoga Mat
“I spent 9 years in the army and it taught me a very rigid and specific way to do things. As the saying goes, “There is the right way, the wrong way, and the army way.” Of course, that perspective served me quite well while I was in, but that changed once I got back into civilian life.”
Yoga 4 Change at Jax Yoga Fest 2021
Saturday, October 23rd, Yoga 4 Change teaches at Jax Yoga Festival at the Riverside Arts Market.
Yoga 4 Change Receives Grant Award from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation
Yoga 4 Change (Y4C) received $13,000 from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF) to offer programming to Veterans in the Tampa Bay area. This funding allows the opportunity for two Veteran classes per week to be added to the Y4C existing schedule serving Veterans, active duty and their caregivers.
Yoga 4 Change announced as one of THE PLAYERS Championship recipients for veteran-based grant initiative
“According to Welch, an overwhelming number of organizations took part in the application process, but they had to pair it down to 20 to make sure each recipient receives a helpful amount of money.
The program’s campaign raised $140,000, which will be donated across the 20 organizations.”
Yoga 4 Change receives grant funding to hire Full Time Position and Expand Programs
This grant funding is being used for capacity building purposes to: 1) Hire a Full-Time Director of Virtual Programming; and 2) Offer one additional virtual class to impact more individuals in the Northeast Florida community.
A Timeline of the events in my Life
“I chose hope. I got myself involved in a 12-step program and got myself somewhere safe to live, that was outside of the community I had become so closely enmeshed with. I sought recovery. A few weeks after I started the meetings and I began living according to a program, a yoga studio opened up on the same block as where I lived.”
My Pathway to Yoga
“ It is always darkest before the dawn.” A quote by Bill W. the founder of Alcoholic Anonymous.
Back on the Mat, Back into Life
“I hope to not only stay with the alumni program through Y4C, but to also become a part of the team some day. I believe in the purpose, and the passion here. I believe my story will help me to be an example to those who may feel hopeless when coming onto the mat for the first time (or like me, coming back onto it). I hope to reflect this in my teaching, anywhere I teach; the belief that anybody, and I do mean any body, can do yoga.”
