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Q: What do you do at Bull City Fit and how did you get to where you are today? A: I’m the program coordinator for Bull City Fit (BCF), which means I do all the behind-the-scenes work and am on site whenever we’re open. I’m also in charge of creating and maintaining community partnerships (such as what […]

The Durham Arts Council, Creative Arts in Public & Private Schools/Community (CAPS) program has renewed their 2 year contract with Y.O.G.A. for Youth NC which allows us to participate in after schools programs. Here is a list of a few of the schools we have worked with so far in 2017: Roger-Herr Middle School The School

AUGUST 2014 “Doing Good in the Neighborhood” Moving Towards Recovery is a program of yoga and theater for clients and their children from the Durham Crisis Response Center who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault.  This program expands upon a successful 3-year collaboration between Y.O.G.A. for Youth and DCRC’s Latina support group by

  Thanks to our new partners, You Call This Yoga, we were able to start a yoga program at Enloe High School! Over the past six weeks, Y.O.G.A. for Youth classes have been offered in a pilot program at Enloe High School.  We introduced yoga to the students in an enrichment program called CONCERT, which is active in

This month, Y.O.G.A. for Youth began an 8-week pilot program at the Wright School North Carolina Re-Education Program in Durham.  Run by the NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of State Operated Health Care Facilities, the Wright School provides best practice, cost-effective residential mental health treatment to North Carolina’s children, ages six to

Y.O.G.A. for Youth NC Continues to Serve Survivors and Their Children “I feel like a new person.”  This was a comment from an 8-year-old Latina student after one of our yoga sessions. Y.O.G.A. for Youth NC has entered its fourth year of programming for mothers and children in the Latina Women’s Support Group run by

JUNE 2013 Paura Heo Program Director, Communities In Schools of Orange County, Inc. “I celebrate myself! I celebrate you! I am lover of learning and un-learning.  And, my Practice has provided a grounding that allows me to move through life freely.” The product of two devotees, a monk and a nun turned laypersons, Paura found a