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:
Yoga Service
Yoga and service have always been core components of Omega’s offerings, and continue to serve as transformative tools for cultivating personal and collective resilience. 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
There is a revolution that needs to happen for real change to transpire, but it’s a revolution that begins from within.
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.
Avenelle Archille
Avenelle Archille is founder of The Anxious Yogi Inc.
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, founder of YogaReach®LLC, is an educational psychologist and yoga therapist.
Jennifer Cohen Harper
Jennifer Cohen Harper, founder of Little Flower Yoga, is a mindfulness and yoga educator, and author...
Lisa Jakub
Lisa Jakub is an author, RYT 500 yoga teacher, and retired actor who has more than 40 film and...
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...
Lara Land
Lara Land is a yoga teacher, somatic coach, and yoga teacher trainer who specializes in trauma...
Angela Williams-Jones
Angela Williams-Jones, E-RYT, YACEP, is a genuinely nurturing soul with a deep love of networking...
Best Practice Guidebooks
Resource Library
There's Another Yoga World Out There and I Just Found It
Yogapedia author Barrie Risman explores yoga service.
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.
