Help in Healing: Yoga for Vets
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Dear Friends,
SWAN is thrilled to launch a new schedule of two free yoga classes for veterans!
SWAN’s free Yoga for Vets NYC program has served hundreds of veterans since its inception in 2008. Taught by veterans, for veterans, the class fosters a community where veterans and their loved ones can learn techniques to heal from military-related wounds and the stresses of re-integrating back home.
To read a piece I wrote for The Huffington Post about learning and teaching yoga, click here: “Yoga and PTSD: One Veteran’s Story”.
Morgan Cooley, a returning Afghanistan veteran, had this to say about the class:
Yoga for Vets NYC changed my life. The class came into my life just after returning home from Afghanistan. It showed me that medication wasn’t the only form of therapy out there. Since going there my anxiety and stress levels went down and I felt a sense of peace I had never known.
In honor of our Yoga for Vets NYC re-launch, we have added a new category of giving for our matching grant campaign. Become a SWAN “yogi” by sponsoring a year of free yoga classes for one veteran for just $168!
As a full-time veterans advocacy organization, SWAN has invested in this healing program because we intimately understand the reintegration and health issues that veterans face.
In order to keep this program going, and to provide scholarships to new veterans to become yoga teachers specifically for the veterans’ community, we need your help! Please sponsor a year’s worth of classes today for a veteran.
With thanks for your continued support,
Anu Bhagwati
Former Marine Corps Captain
Executive Director, Service Women’s Action Network
Founder and Head Instructor, Yoga for Vets NYC
Photos via Reuters and Eva Schmidt
Yoga for Vets NYC
Taught by veterans, for veterans, Yoga for Vets NYC is FREE for all veterans, family and providers.
Wednesdays & Thursdays
6:45pm-8:15pm
At Integral Yoga Institute
227 West 13th St. between 7th and 8th Ave.
www.yogaforvetsnyc.org
Become a Yogi!
Sponsor a year of free yoga classes for one veteran for just $168! Donate Today!
Yoga and PTSD: One Veteran’s Story
Read SWAN Director Anu Bhagwati’s Huffington Post article here.
