proud partners in social impact with lululemon
Here to Be is lululemon's community-based social impact program that makes the healing benefits of yoga and meditation accessible through best-in-class nonprofit partnerships.
Our Here To Be Impact
In 2017 United We Om received the Global Here To Be Ambassador Grant, one of 5 NonProfits out of 500 applicants from around the world. United We Om received the largest portion of the funds.
This incredible support is helping us create two impactful programs. First, a Trauma Informed Teacher Training offered by application at no cost to participants specifically crafted to share practice across social boundaries in trauma sensitive communities, taught by Master Teacher and Advisor to our Board Jafar Alexander.
This fall the second part of our grant will create a comprehensive video resource page to our website. Each video will share yoga and meditation in an accessible and trauma-sensitive way, and many will be community specific (yoga in spanish, yoga for recovery, meditation for Veterans...). This will allow the students from our Karma Projects to continue to practice after they graduate from the organizations they've met us in. It will also open up accessible practice to a global community of people who want to practice but don't have access.
This incredible support is helping us create two impactful programs. First, a Trauma Informed Teacher Training offered by application at no cost to participants specifically crafted to share practice across social boundaries in trauma sensitive communities, taught by Master Teacher and Advisor to our Board Jafar Alexander.
This fall the second part of our grant will create a comprehensive video resource page to our website. Each video will share yoga and meditation in an accessible and trauma-sensitive way, and many will be community specific (yoga in spanish, yoga for recovery, meditation for Veterans...). This will allow the students from our Karma Projects to continue to practice after they graduate from the organizations they've met us in. It will also open up accessible practice to a global community of people who want to practice but don't have access.
Our local Here To Be Impact
For the second year in a row, United We Om has received the local Here To Be partnership from all 5 lululemon stores on Long Island. Coming this fall we are proud to be partnering with Connecticut to share practice in downtown Stamford!
2017 Here To Be Impact
Our local lululemon partnership sponsored 4 Yogis in Residence. These teachers Karma Projects have been deeply impactful, and the Yogi in Residence program will places them with their organizations for an entire year of weekly yoga and meditation classes.
Our local lululemon partnership sponsored 4 Yogis in Residence. These teachers Karma Projects have been deeply impactful, and the Yogi in Residence program will places them with their organizations for an entire year of weekly yoga and meditation classes.
2016 Here To Be Impact
Our lululemon partnership sponsored 10 Karma Projects that shared Yoga and Meditation practice with diverse communities including Substance Abuse and Eating Disorder Recovery, LGBTQ teens, adults with intellectual disabilities, women in a Domestic Violence shelter, and Yoga in Spanish in low-income housing.
We also created by-donation classes with no minimum at every lululemon on Long Island to share the work of Karma Yoga with the larger community.
Overall in 2016 our partnership shared yoga and meditation with
Our lululemon partnership sponsored 10 Karma Projects that shared Yoga and Meditation practice with diverse communities including Substance Abuse and Eating Disorder Recovery, LGBTQ teens, adults with intellectual disabilities, women in a Domestic Violence shelter, and Yoga in Spanish in low-income housing.
We also created by-donation classes with no minimum at every lululemon on Long Island to share the work of Karma Yoga with the larger community.
Overall in 2016 our partnership shared yoga and meditation with
Nearly
attendees at our in-store by-donation yoga classes, no minimum donation |
More than
individuals from a variety of vulnerable communities as a part of our Karma Projects |