BENEFITS OF YOGA
After four to eight sessions

• 20-25 percent of youngsters experience a decrease in incidents of anger.
• 60-70 percent are able to sleep better at night.
• 80 percent of youth demonstrate a reduction in verbal or physical confrontation.
• 80 percent of youth are able to identify specific yoga postures and breathing techniques that influence good health and alleviate stress, headaches, and lower back pain.

Facts

• There are over 2 million arrests of juveniles every year.
• In any given day juvenile courts handle up to 4,500 delinquency cases — out of which 47% of these youth are held in detention until arraignment.
• 74% increase in prostitution for juveniles under 15 years of age.
• Drop out rate for High School students in New York is 30.7%
• 38.9% of NYC public school students did not graduate on time in 2006.
• 44% of High School students in L.A. public schools do not graduate.

Statistics like these can be radically changed with the practice of yoga... Give the Gift of Yoga!

YOGA for Youth provides our youth with the tools for self discovery that foster hope, discipline and respect for self, others and community.

 One 17 year-old boy at Camp Kilpatrick says, “I’m constantly stressing out about staying out of trouble. Yoga helps me relax.”

 Michael from Camp Miller says, “Yoga helps you deal with rage – it calms your heart. I like it.”

  The practice of yoga teaches troubled youth to quiet their minds and achieve insight into how their choices affect themselves and others. Providing children and adolescents access to tools that allow them to break the cycle of crime, violence, and incarceration is a gift that will last a lifetime.

  Thanks to Y.O.G.A. for Youth, their future is inspired by hope and our world becomes a safer place for everyone. Thanks to you and your compassionate, heartfelt generosity, more of these youngsters will become the change they want to see in the world.