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Yoga Parkside Foundation exists to promote and champion health equity and wellness for all in Buffalo, NY. By offering welcoming spaces that promote safety through trauma-informed care and practices, we are working to address the social determinants of health for Buffalo folks, with a priority for BIPOC and New American communities. Yoga Parkside seeks to uplift bodies of all shapes and sizes regardless of race, gender, or sexuality.

 

Yoga has transformative potential, with research pointing to its strong benefits for reducing stress, healing trauma, increasing attention in learners, and reducing chronic pain. Studies prove its usefulness for recovery situations, returning veterans, healing physical injuries, reducing high blood pressure, increasing learning in academic situations, and more.

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Eliminating Barriers.

Access to yoga is hampered by cost, transportation, availability, and more. The healing practice of yoga can be further limited by exclusionary language or ideologies, inadequately trained instructors, or other concerns.

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Expanding Outreach.

Donations make it possible for us to make the healing benefits of yoga more widely available to our community. The benefits of yoga and meditation should not be limited only to those with access to classes. Instead, they should be available to any and all who could use it.

 

In 2023, Yoga Parkside Foundation sponsored yoga classes at wellness programs, schools, and festivals throughout Western New York.  

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In 2023, YPF was able to support numerous non-profit organizations through the generosity of our students and donors.  These include:

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• Graycliff       

• Herbert Hoover Elementary School HSA    

• Universalist Unitarian

• North Park Library

• Bennett Park Montessori

• Parkside Lutheran Church

• WNY Women's foundation

• Daemen University Women’s Tennis Team   

• Bangladesh bookbag drive

• UB Law School - Family Violence & Women's Rights Clinic

• Best Self Health Fair

• Succulent Market

• WNY Wellfest

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Living Our Mission.

 Yoga Parkside Foundation seeks to foster inclusivity and accessibility to wellness offerings by way of welcoming spaces for all, especially those from historically underserved populations.

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The Yoga Parkside Foundation is the only studio in Western New York offering a sliding scale for membership in an effort to increase accessibility to our offerings.  In addition, YPF provides scholarships to folks in our community who might not otherwise be able to access yoga classes.  

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In 2023, YPF provided scholarships to 22 individuals!

 

We are Yoga Parkside.