Yoga Volunteers Wanted

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Can you teach yoga and create a safe community for low income women and women in homelessness?

The Blossom Project and Downtown Streets Team are partnering to give women experiencing homelessness the emotional and physical tools necessary to empower their lives.

Blossom and DST is looking for 2 yoga instructors to teach a small group of women (8-12) that are ranging from 40-75 years of age, every second Thursday from 1-2pm.

About:

The Blooming Room is a 13-week volunteer lead course divided into 2 classes weekly on Thursdays and Fridays from 1-3pm.

The purpose with Blooming Room is to create an atmosphere of inclusion and empower vulnerable women to be and feel part of the community and to create a safe environment to build their life again. This is done by strengthening women's self-confidence by highlighting the skills and competencies they already have and supporting them in acquiring new ones.

Through Blooming Room, the women hereby have the opportunity to prepare for their future by finding and believing their own resources. The project's activities also support women in finding relationships and building healthy communities.

A part of this curriculum is to help the women be aware of not only their mental wellbeing, but also their physical state. The way that we are approaching this is by conducting a Hatha Yoga Class for the women.

The group of women that would be a part of this group range from 40 - 70 years old, with little to no previous experience with Yoga / physical exercise.

We are looking for a volunteer to concentrate on slow movements, breathing exercises, and mindfulness.

Duties and Responsibilities

A part of this curriculum is to help the women be aware of not only their mental state, but also their physical state. The way that we are approaching this is by conducting a Hatha Yoga Class for the women.

The group of women that would be a part of this group range from 40 - 70 years old, with little to no previous experience with Yoga / physical exercise.

We are looking for a volunteer to concentrate on slow movements, breathing exercises, and mindfulness.

• Lead 60 minutes Hatha Yoga classes every second week on Thursday to a small group of women (8-12) that are ranging from 40-75 years of age
• Comfortable leading women with little to no experience in yoga
• Offer adjustments and training recommendations
• Establish productive relationships with each an every client with no bias or prejudice towards race, religion, age, sex, disability, or sexual preference.
• Must be friendly, outgoing, and most importantly patient with the group of women

Time commitment

1 hour every second week + cleanup. You undertake to teach every 14 days from First week of February to the end of April.

Qualifications:

We imagine that you are a trained yoga teacher and have good pedagogical skills as well as experience teaching with a minimum of 200 hours behind you. You want to contribute, and you have a passion for teaching women no knowledge of yoga! As a person you are calm, embracing and with no judgement, and want to work with women who come from a different background than you, and you are passionate about making a difference to the target group.

• Certified or getting credentials towards becoming a yoga instructor: Has to have completed their 200 Hour training

Interviews and training

Interviews will be held on December 12th or 13th between 10am to noon

Volunteer Training will be held on Saturday December 14th from 9am-11am.

If interested please send a short cover letter with experience and motivation and a resume.