Yoga Service

Yoga Service

Omega's yoga workshops serve as transformative tools for cultivating personal and collective resilience.

Yoga and service have always been core components of Omega’s offerings. Yoga service, a growing field, supports individuals and organizations working to make yoga and mindfulness practices community-centered, culturally sensitive, and inclusive for all, regardless of circumstances.

Yoga Service Workshops

10 Remarkable Yoga Service Organizations

Yoga Journal launched a social campaign in 2018 to nominate organizations with a track record of successfully integrating yoga into local communities as a tool for health and happiness.  They chose 10 exemplary groups that are making bold strides in their communities.

There is a revolution that needs to happen for real change to transpire, but it’s a revolution that begins from within.
Seane Corn ,

Omega teacher & cofounder of Off the Mat, Into the World

Our Teachers

Omega’s yoga service programs continue to feature leaders in the field who bring these teachings to a broad spectrum of people—including early education teachers, health-care professionals, veterans, at-risk youth, and the elderly.

  • James Bae

    James Bae

    James H. Bae, DACM, E-RYT, C-IAYT, is a doctor of Chinese medicine, author, and independent...

  • Argos Gonzalez

    Argos Gonzalez is a teacher in the Bronx, a lecturer, and a mindfulness and yoga instructor...

  • Mayuri Gonzalez

    Mayuri Gonzalez, E-RYT, RCYT, director of Little Flower Yoga’s School Yoga Project, is a vinyasa...

  • Char Grossman

    Char Grossman

    Char Grossman, founder of YogaReach®LLC, is an educational psychologist and yoga therapist.

  • Jenn Cohen Harper

    Jennifer Cohen Harper

    Jennifer Cohen Harper, founder of Little Flower Yoga, is a mindfulness and yoga educator, and author...

  • Lisa Jakub

    Lisa Jakub

    Lisa Jakub is an author, RYT 500 yoga teacher, and retired actor who has more than 40 film and...

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    Lisa Hillary Johnson

    Lisa Hillary Johnson is a licensed massage therapist and healer, and founder of Deep Breaths & Heal.

  • Hala Khouri

    Hala Khouri, cofounder of Off The Mat, Into The World®, is a yoga teacher and somatic counselor...

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    Lara Land

    Lara Land is a yoga teacher, somatic coach, and yoga teacher trainer who specializes in trauma...

  • Angela Williams-Jones

    Angela Williams-Jones

    Angela Williams-Jones, E-RYT, YACEP, is a genuinely nurturing soul with a deep love of networking...

Best Practice Guidebooks

Best Practices Guides

Launched in 2014 as a collaboration between Omega and the Yoga Service Collective, the guidebooks uplift the field of yoga service by sharing the insights, experiences, and knowledge of leading teachers, researchers, therapists, medical professionals, policy makers, and others working to make yoga and mindfulness practices equally available to all. The works include:

Resource Library

Yogapedia - There's another World

There's Another Yoga World Out There and I Just Found It

Yogapedia author Barrie Risman explores yoga service.

Read on Yogapedia

Yoga Service Collective Joins Omega

Longtime Partner Now Part of Omega's Nonprofit Structure

Building on more than a decade of collaboration, Omega Institute has formally assumed the Yoga Service Collective. Together, the organizations have supported and helped to shape the emerging field of Yoga Service since 2009—through annual conferences, best practice symposiums, and an acclaimed series of best practice guides, aimed at making yoga community-centered, culturally-sensitive, and inclusive for all.