MEDIA CENTRE

PR contacts:

Laura Wilson (founding director)
laura@edinburghcommunityyoga.co.uk
07966502085

Lorraine close (director)
lorraine@edinburghcommunityyoga.co.uk
07703984100

Notes to editors:

Edinburgh Community Yoga

• ECY are a not for profit social enterprise.

• ECY is one of the leading yoga outreach organisation in the country. Running more than 40 in person and online classes weekly, half of which are community based projects in non-traditional settings. In one week alone we reach people in women’s groups, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, veterans residential centres, addiction centres, hostels, hospitals, refugee and asylum seeking centres, community centres, and the online autistic community.

• We also run a comprehensive workplace wellbeing program offering mind/body solutions to work related pressure in high stress environments such as the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.

• Alongside our outreach work we also offer mainstream yoga classes and retreats and run training courses for yoga teachers interested in our outreach yoga teaching approach.

Our Vision

Our vision encompasses the yogic values of respect and compassion and the humanist ideal of unconditional positive regard. We believe in social equality and work towards an inclusive world where each individual has access to and is empowered by doing yoga. 

Our Mission

Edinburgh community yoga is a not-for-profit organization. We take the therapeutic benefits of yoga to communities in Edinburgh. We work to cross the cultural, economic and health barriers that inhibit people from doing yoga by ensuring inclusivity and accessibility. We aim to provide a learning environment that is safe and supportive and to equip people with the skills to better deal with stress and improve health and mental well-being. We achieve this by offering a range of public and workplace classes, retreats, teacher training and outreach projects.

www.edinburghcommunityyoga.co.uk

Edinburgh Community Yoga Festival – Organised by social enterprise Strawberry Lemonade Events and with a percentage of the profits donated to Edinburgh Community Yoga, the festival brings together the yoga community in support of the wider Edinburgh community.  Festival goers can benefit from yoga workshops that will see some of Edinburgh’s favourite teachers paired up to share all aspects of yoga. As part of the festival, a number of Edinburgh based studios and teachers are also offering classes. www.edyogafest.co.uk