About US
YOGA FARM ITHACA
IS A NONPROFIT CENTER FOR
CONNECTION, HEALING, & EDUCATION
In the fall of 2018 we transitioned from a corporate/for-profit model to a nonprofit charitable, 501c3 organization. Our curriculum is taught at Yoga Farm, in area schools, online, and in organizations and businesses in our region.
Our curriculum cultivates vibrant physical health, emotional balance and mental clarity, healing the root causes of suffering, and returning individuals to the stunning recognition of their own worthiness, magnificence, and the purity of their own goodness.
Individuals that regularly feel the rapture of being alive, and who flourish in purpose and meaning, become powerful and compassionate contributors to society.
Accessibility
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Inclusivity & Diversity
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Empowered Spirituality
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Trauma Informed
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Integrity & Alignment
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Accessibility • Inclusivity & Diversity • Empowered Spirituality • Trauma Informed • Integrity & Alignment •
OUR VALUES
Our Mission
is to break down the financial and cultural barriers to healing practices, create inclusive and diverse spaces, and provide safe spaces for healing and personal growth.
The Vision
is to build sustainable and trauma-informed community hubs where members gather to cultivate spiritual wellbeing, be of service and engage in lifelong learning.
OUr How
Using transformational holistic programming and curriculum we provide practical tools for mental and physical health. We work to eliminate the barriers preventing access to healing practices. We actively engage to ensure students feel welcome to show up as they are in our schools, online communities and events. We empower individuals to create a life of fulfillment as they grow both personally and professionally in our programs.
BECOME AN Online MEMBER
By joining, or continuing your membership with us as a nonprofit, you are co-creating a United Humanity with us. Your membership dollars make it possible for us to continue to offer our services for the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of our students, without interruption. All memberships will have a direct, and immediate impact on others, creating a “pay it forward” ripple effect that will benefit our entire community.
How We Serve
We are an inclusive space for health and wellness. Our curriculum equips our students and clients with the ability to sustain vibrant, intentional and deeply connected living.
Our programs focus on:
Connection and healing in community
Balance and wholeness in the body
Calm and clarity in the mind
Living passionate, purposeful lives
Finding a revitalized connection to spirit
Experiencing the joy in being alive
The overall emphasis here is on teaching skills, tools and healing techniques for body and mind so that students are able to bring their very best self home to their work, relationships, and service work. A radiant life is one where you are feeling connected with yourself, with healthy, uplifting relationships, living a fulfilled life rooted and awe and wonder.
In this way, YFI is contributing every single day to improving the health and wellness of families and communities and workplaces in the region.
Are you ready?
Our education is available to all
Offer what is honest and integrity? How does tuition work here?
Many of our courses and classes use a self-determined tuition, to ‘offer what is honest and in integrity for you’. This means that participants get to choose what to offer our nonprofit after experiencing the gifts of the class or program they participate in.
PART OF OUR CORE PHILOSOPHY AS A NONPROFIT
TO OFFER SUBSTANTIAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT A SLIDING SCALE TUITION, THAT WE CALL ‘OFFER WHAT IS HONEST AND IN INTEGRITY’
Many of our courses have a sliding scale associated with them. Here’s how that works:
The highest tuition (‘Pay It Forward Tuition’) reflects the true cost of the class or service, and includes a contribution to ‘pay it forward’ to an individual utilizing the lowest tuition for the same course. If you have access to financial security, own property or have personal savings, please consider this. If you are able to pay for "wants" and spend little time worried about securing necessities in your life, you have economic privilege and power in our community, and we welcome your collaboration and contribution to help another. This tuition is for you.
The middle tuition (‘Budget Tuition’) is for those who do not honestly find themselves reflected in either descriptions for the highest cost or the lowest. If you are struggling with debt, have little or no savings, live paycheck to paycheck living but have access to steady income and are not spending most of your time thinking about meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, child care, etc., you belong here.
The bottom tuition (‘Considerable Financial Hardship Tuition’) represents an honest acknowledgment by our school that there are folks whose economic circumstances would prevent them from being a part of classes if there was not be a deliberate opportunity made for them to access services at a cost that is reflective of their economic realities. If you struggle to maintain access to needs such as health care, housing, food, child care, and are living paycheck to paycheck or are in significant debt, you belong probably belong here and you deserve a community that honors your tuition as equal an economic offering as the person who can pay the highest tier. We welcome your participation and please use the lowest tuition.
These 3 paragraphs above are gratefully adapted by an excellent article by Alexis J. Cunningfolk on this website
This contemporary approach is our way of being the change we want to see in the world.
We are giving you our highest quality instruction and teachings and maintaining a healing space for you, so you can have a direct experience and inner transformation that will be yours forever and cannot be undone.
This model of business is based on the belief that acts of generosity and sharing with others will inspire and cultivate loving kindness and interconnection, awakening our kindest humanity.
These qualities, in turn, serve as the foundation for insight and wisdom to grow in our hearts and to shape our relationships with others and the world around us.
Your insights and awareness are the foundation upon which your transformed life will be re-created. Tuition donations are the only source of funding we receive for Yoga Farm Coursework; there is no foundation or benefactor supporting these courses.
TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION
FOR A CLASS, WORKSHOP, OR RETREAT, AND TO ASSIST US IN EXTENDING THE REACH OF THIS COURSEWORK, PLEASE:
or
or mail your tax-deductible contribution to:
Yoga Farm Ithaca
PO Box 3835
Ithaca, NY 14852
With all of our Hearts, we thank you 🙏
PARTNER YOGA SCHOOL with
Awakening Yoga Spaces
Their coalition of partner yoga schools is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities. Each partner school works to create brave spaces within their respective communities where historical or current representational disparities exist.
Awakening Yoga Spaces grant recipients will choose their yoga teacher training or yoga therapy training program from among partner yoga schools that have joined thier coalition.
Awakening Yoga Spaces runs scholarships every year, from January - March and recipients are notified by July 1st. To find out more CLICK HERE.