Satellite Yoga is a not-for-profit organization that brings the science and art of yoga to populations that have been displaced from their homes, or their hearts, by acts of violence – to people in prison, homeless shelters, women's and children's shelters, rehab centers, group homes and transitional facilities, and to at-risk youth. Our goals are to educate yoga teachers on the need for this type of teaching and on the skills required, and to secure funding (through community involvement) for the teachers' compensation.

Satellite Yoga had its wellspring in the yoga outreach work of Nancy Candea, ERYT, a Certified Yoga Therapist and director of the Boundless Yoga Center, a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School. Having studied yoga's capacity to aid in addiction recovery, moderate the effects of trauma, and plant the seeds of self-transformation, Nancy put her yoga practice to work in Colorado for the Boulder community. She taught yoga at the Safehouse women's shelter, Boulder County Jail, and the Brookdale retirement community.

Satellite Yoga builds on this model of service, taking yoga out of the studio and into the refugee camps of our own back yards.

For yoga teachers and practitioners, Satellite Yoga is a means to sharpen our treatment skills and to expand our yoga lifestyle through service to the whole community, and so play our part in the maturation of yoga in the West.

What's happening soon:

Inspirations from the Bhagavad Gita - March 14 and 19

Extending Metta Yoga Teacher Training - begins in April

Basic Yoga Teacher Training - begins in April