Our Mission
We offer yoga and mindfulness classes, as well as yoga teacher training scholarships, to underserved, under-resourced, and socially stigmatized communities. We embrace a trauma-informed, culturally-responsive, and strengths-based approach. Our goal is to foster health, self-awareness, emotional literacy, resilience, and community connection – empowering individuals to create positive impact in their own lives, families, and the greater community.
Namaspa, LLC has been a leader in the Central Oregon yoga community since 2007, always with a commitment to bringing volunteer yoga classes to local jails, homeless shelters, Recovery programs, and schools.
since 2018, the Namaspa Foundation has been employing certified yoga teachers to teach these classes, thus meeting the growing needs of our community while providing yoga teachers with a living wage. our yoga and mindfulness classes help to address some of the underlying issues of disempowerment in our society: stress, fear, anxiety, trauma, self-doubt, depression, and isolation.
If your school, business, or nonprofit wants to participate in our offerings, please reach out to NamaspaFoundation@gmail.com.
The Namaspa Foundation also provides multiple partial and full scholarships for Namaspa, LLC’s 200hr Yoga Teacher Training each year. This funding comes from generous donations from individual private donors and community fundraising events. We offer scholarships in two categories.
The purpose of the BIPOC Scholarship is to create greater diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility in the yoga teaching community, and to acknowledge the need for reparations.
The purpose of the Financial Aid Scholarship is to help students who want to become yoga teachers overcome the barrier of financial need, and provide a catalyst for personal and professional growth and opportunity.
Application does not confer any guarantees. Awards will be based on level of commitment, demonstrated financial need, and availability.
