Community Yoga
Collaborative

Community Yoga Collaborative (CYC) offers free or low-cost yoga to underserved and high-risk communities to reduce stress and build emotional resilience for participants of all ages.

Our Mission
Community Yoga Collaborative (CYC) offers free or low-cost yoga to underserved and high-risk communities in Grant, Luna and Hidalgo counties to reduce stress and build emotional resilience for participants of all ages. CYC programs are facilitated by certified yoga teachers to cultivate participant well-being through youth yoga camps, nervous system regulation skills for professional educators and care providers, and general community yoga classes.

Why We Exist
Statistics indicate educators and community social workers, rehabilitation counselors, and mental and medical care professionals are at high risk of burnout and exit from these critical social network sectors. To address this risk, CYC programs go to the workplaces, at times that are most convenient for teachers and care providers. During brief sessions, specific yoga techniques are practiced for personal revitalization to encourage, empower and support these vital experts to tend to themselves while they tend to others.

Youth yoga camps are organized to help children ages 6 to 18 learn to regulate their emotions and energies, work within groups, develop compassion for others, listen and express their emotions in an effective way.

Community yoga classes are held in rural community centers in southwest NM when there are no other offerings.

CYC also supports training and continuing education of certified yoga teachers. Through professional Yoga Teacher Training and yoga training workshops, we help yoga teachers remain current with ways to teach and share yoga systems that promote over all wellness. An annual yoga retreat is presented for anyone interested in deepening their yoga knowledge and skills.

CYC Vision
Community Yoga Collaborative (CYC) makes yoga more accessible for more people to foster greater personal well-being.

You Can Help Us Help Others
Community Yoga Collaborative has three fundamental goals:

1. Decrease professional burnout among educators and community well-being providers who are the vital social networks of our communities;
2. Reduce stress and build emotional resilience for youth ages 6 to 18;
3. Offer accessible, free or affordable yoga sessions to underserved and high-needs communities across southwest NM

Your donation will help us achieve these goals and improve quality of life in Southwest New Mexico.