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Finding ‘me’ on the mat, you too can: How Yoga changed my life

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Daily Nation - January 13 - 2018 AYP Teacher who completed the 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2018 featured in one of Kenya's most popular newspapers! Read full article here and excerpt below:  "Not many people will believe Dorcas Murunga when she credits yoga, the discipline that stresses on body...

Yoga for Development and Peace in Kenya (Article in Spanish)

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El centro comercial Diamond Plaza, en el barrio de Westlands, en Nairobi, desprende aromas asiáticas. La comunidad india en Kenia, una de las más grandes establecidas fuera del país, acude aquí en busca de productos importados desde Nueva Delhi o Bombai, o para comer en algunos de los restaurantes hindús...

Surfing and yoga on the beach is helping heal victims of Somalia’s war

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Somalia has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, stretching more than 3,000 kilometers (1880 miles) across the Horn. But for decades, those pristine beaches remained untouched and devoid of people and activities. And as the nation gained a semblance of peace in 2011, Somalis flocked there to swim and eat at newly-opened...

How a yoga charity aims to solve youth unemployment in Africa

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(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Twelve young adults lie stretched out on rubber mats in the windowless shed that is the Apostolic Light Mission Church in Kangemi, a slum in the Nairobi capital. The late afternoon sun beats down on the tin roof as the yoga students stretch and breathe. After just...

Yoga for lunch by Business Daily

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Fans whir overhead as 15 yoga participants, under the instruction of Cheloti Kundu, flow from the downward facing dog, inhale, draw the shoulders forward so they are directly above the wrist and come to a plank pose. It is around 1.30pm on Wednesday and this is one of the free...

Founder of Africa Yoga Project, Honored with Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Global Citizenship in Louisville, Kentucky USA

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NAIROBI—Global humanitarian and  Founder of Kenyan Community Based Organization, Africa Yoga Project, Paige Elenson, traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, USA to receive the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Global Citizenship for her work with disadvantaged youth in Kenya on September 23, 2017. Paige shared that she has been fighting for social...

Ali Humanitarian Awardee Paige Elenson On The Africa Yoga Project

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Listen here This week, I’ll be talking with the 2017 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awardees. We start with Paige Elenson, who will accept the Ali Humanitarian Award for global citizenship at the ceremony next weekend. Elenson is being honored for her work co-founding the Africa Yoga Project, a movement that empowers the...

Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards recipients

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Muhammad Ali Center's fifth annual Humanitarian Awards honor five people making a difference around the world.  Africa Yoga Project founder Paige Elenson will be honored for Global Citizenship. She has been teaching yoga for more than a decade. The native New Yorker uses yoga as...

Yoga is bringing well-being and employment to young people in Africa

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In July of 2013, we collected data for three Africa Yoga Project studies based on experiences of the yoga teachers, child students and adult students. The research team was a mix of psychologists, doctoral students, a psychiatrist, and seasoned yoga teachers. In the first set of studies we asked the...

Video: Mazimpaka on the spiritual, psychological benefits of Yoga

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April 2017 The New Times - Rwanda “Let me start with how I started to practice yoga, I was a student at the National University of Rwanda in second year (Social Work) and we were studying relaxation techniques when the lecturer, an American woman mentioned yoga among the relaxation techniques....

Meet 31 year old lady who turned yoga talent into money spinner

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April 2017 Standard Digital Kenya The mention of December 2007 and January 2008 often attracts the smell of blood, fighting and death. But for Catherine Njeri, 31, the post-election violence was a turning point in her life. A teenager, struggling hairdresser, and firstborn in a family of five raised by...

Africa Yoga Project Enriches Lives on Two Continents

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Read full story here Mar 7, 2017 Come practice with Africa Yoga Project co-founder at this month’s World Happiness Summit in Miami. Paige Elenson, originally from New York City, was “probably the person that my high school yearbook would have voted ‘least likely to move to Kenya to teach yoga,’”...

Mind-body Wellness Helps Trauma Survivors in Somalia

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MOGADISHU —  In Somalia, an exercise program for survivors of sexual violence is helping participants overcome trauma. It's a trendy program in an unlikely place. In classes across the Somali capital of Mogadishu, youths practice breathing, meditation and stretching. Dressed in matching blue track suits, the color of the Somali...

Silent Yoga by Patricia Esteve

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SilentYoga from Patricia Esteve on Vimeo. At Africa Yoga Project we truly believe that yoga is for everyone, old or young, fit or not, yoga is for you! But this isn't limited to practicing yoga, we also have trained deaf and blind yoga instructors who can not only earn a...

TRAINING AFRICA’S YOGA TEACHERS

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October 2016 Natural Awakenings of Bux Mont Read full story Life in bustling Nairobi, Kenya, can be stressful—and for poor youth and those from marginalized communities, making a living isn’t easy. When a person is putting every ounce of time and energy into getting by, health and wellness just can’t be a...

ABOUT TIME YOU MET: THE AFRICA YOGA PROJECT

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October 2016 About Time Magazine Read full story Paige Elenson is the lady behind Africa Yoga Project, a new initiative that helps educate, empower, elevate and expand employability with youth in Africa using the transformational practice of yoga. Their vision is to create opportunities for youth to step into their greatness and...

Disability in Africa: Nairobi's Yoga classes

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August 2016 BBC Watch full story 'Disability is not inability' is the mantra of a Kenyan NGO which runs yoga sessions

Yogis Changing the World: Meet the 2016 Good Karma Award Winners

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July 2016 Yoga Journal Read full story For our second annual Good Karma Awards—which honor men and women who are living the practice of yoga out loud—we asked our advisory council (below) to nominate people who embody what 
it means to be a yogi: selflessly giving back to communities through yoga...

Faith Ituru, Kenyan and visually impaired who teaches Yoga

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July 2016 Gama TV Read full story Through a mutual friend, we met Faith. She’s visually impaired and lives in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. Passionate about sports, two years ago she started yoga classes for people with and without disabilities. Though the Project África Yoga Project, she has done a beautiful...

African Voices

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June 2016 CNN Read full story Yoga mat in hand, James Njuguna walks around the neighborhood he grew up in: "When I wanted to go buy drugs, I'd go to one of these houses behind here and get... like anything I need", he reveals.

'When we were doing yoga, they forgot their differences'

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December 2015 PRI Read full story I had been in Nairobi for 24 hours when I found myself in a middle-class apartment, the air conditioning turned off, getting run through the paces by Catherine Njeri, a power yoga instructor here.

When He Says Yoga Saved His Life, He's Not Exaggerating

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August 2015 NPR Read full story In 2007, Paige Elenson came to town. A businesswoman and yoga teacher, she co-founded the Africa Yoga Project and began offering free classes in poor neighborhoods in Nairobi to ease tensions after election-related violence and give people a way to "positively transform lives."

11 Voluntourism Opportunities To Make Your African Travel Count

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July 2014 Travel Start Blog Read full story ‘Seva’ is the Sanskrit word for “selfless service”, and ‘safari’ is the Swahili word for “journey or trip”.  On a Seva Safari trip with Africa Yoga Project, that is exactly what you will be getting – a selfless service journey, and one that I...

Yoga in the Wild

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June 2014 Dujour  Read full story Few things in life get the adrenaline pumping more than an angry elephant charging your way. Few things are more fun than watching a herd of hippos wading in the river. And if you’re lucky enough to witness a real-life kill—the Safari equivalent of an...

Inspiring Change from Africa

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February/March 2014 Sweat Equity Magazine Read full story When Robert Sturman set off to Kenya with his camera and yoga mat, he had a bigger purpose than just seeing a new country. As a passionate yogi and talented photographer, he decided he wanted to work with the Africa Yoga Project (AYP)...

Social Entrepreneur Paige Elenson Wins Prestigious Ashoka Fellowship

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December 2013 Ashoka Read full story NAIROBI, KENYA - Paige Elenson has been selected by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as a member of its global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs.

Africa Yoga Project: Building Economic Empowerment For Kenyans

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October 2013 The Network Journal Read full story The Africa Yoga Project (AYP) aims to empower, educate, elevate and employ people in East Africa and globally through the practice of yoga. AYP, which is a nonprofit in the U.S. and registered non-profit organization in Canada, uses yoga to support economic development...

Enlightenment in Silence: What I Learned From A Deaf Yoga Instructor

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October 2013 Elephant Journal Read full story “Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself…”~ Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

MEET: Paige Elenson, Cofounder Africa Yoga Project

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July 2013 Catalyst Read full story Africa Yoga Project is CATALYST's NGO of the Week, and MISSION talks with the organization's founder Paige Elenson about how this amazing organization came to be and who would be the ideal volunteers to travel with them on their journeys.

From savannah to slums, Kenyan yoga strikes a pose

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September 2013 CNN International Read full story There he stands, Mount Kilimanjaro in the background, striking a pose on a purple mat, bathed in the light of dawn. Breathing. Stretching. Opening up his mind -- a group of young children following and copying his every move.

African Yoga Project - Rewind, Recap: What We've Been Up To

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August 2013 Dia For Life Read full story The process of stretching one’s body is similar to that of stretching boundaries. Both take patience and determination, an open heart and practice. Africa Yoga Project (AYP) has been up to some big things that we’d love to share.

Yoga gets a community face

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July 2013 Business Daily Africa Read full story The Africa yoga project is a community based organisation that has been working with people across the country to uplift their living and has trained over 70 yoga teacher, to enable them to earn a living. Started in 2007, the Africa Yoga Project...

Community Yoga centre opens in Nairobi

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July 2013 Capital Lifestyle Read full story The Africa Yoga Project has launched a community Yoga Centre dubbed “Shine Centre” at Nairobi’s Diamond Plaza in a bid to not only provide tools of empowerment and health but also to make yoga accessible to people from all walks of life.

Yoga Goes to Africa

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May 2013 The Active Times Read full story My name is Paige Elenson, and I am the Executive Director of a charity I co-founded with Baron Baptiste called Africa Yoga Project.  It sounds like such an important title, when really I am just a girl, now mom, who fell in love with the power...

Kenya prison introduces yoga to help prisoners

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May 2013 BBC Read full story Yoga classes in Langata Women's Prison in Nairobi, Kenya, are inspiring both inmates and teacher.The non-profit organization Africa Yoga Project has trained over 100 instructors who also offer free classes in community centres, slums and orphanages across the country.

Yoga in Africa

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May 2013 New York Times Read full story The language of yoga is universal. That is the message of Robert Sturman, an artist from Santa Monica, Calif., who has traveled across the United States to capture the tranquillity and beauty of yoga. A month ago, Mr. Sturman traveled to Kenya...

Is this the world’s gentlest prison?

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Read original story here. At Kenya's only maximum-security prison for women, conditions are so benign that inmates do yoga with their guards.Yoga instuctor Anita Njeri, wearing white, leads a class for inmates at Kenya's Lang'ata prison for women. Inmate Josephine Mwangi, centre, massages a guard, known as a "madam," during...

The Touching Story of an African Boy Burned in a Fire. For All of Us Who Feel Shame.

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MAY 28, 2013 in POSITIVELY POSITIVE Photos by ROBERT STURMAN Read full article Recently, I had the opportunity of traveling to Africa as a resident artist for Africa Yoga Project, an organization that educates, empowers, elevates, and employs youth from Africa using the transformational power of yoga. The vision of Africa...

Yoga being used for social change in Kenya

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April 12, 2013 CBS NEWS Read article During the first week that Sara Ishaq began offering free yoga classes in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, only four women showed up. By the end of the week the room overflowed with more than 25 women. Yoga's popularity has increased in the...

Yoga Project Changes Lives In Nairobi's Slums

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April 2013 NPR Listen The slums in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are among the biggest in Africa. There is crushing poverty, high unemployment, poor sanitation and rampant crime. It is not the kind of place where you'd expect a burgeoning yoga scene to take root, but that's what reporter Jill Craig...

Kenyan yoga boom creates jobs and breaks down barriers

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March 25 2013 The Guardian Read With ambient music playing in the background, a dedicated group of yogis breathe in unison, concentrating intently on the finer details of the downward dog. Sweat drips from their faces as the teacher guides them through a series of intricate asanas, correcting stray limbs...

Kenyan inmates find solace in yoga

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Al Jazeera 2 October 2012 Watch here. Women in a Kenyan jail are discovering the relaxing effects of Yoga. The inmates, many of whom are HIV positive, say it has become a rare source of happiness. This is the story of one of the prisoners, Hellen Nyokabi David.  

Kenyans bond through practice of yoga

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Watch here how a group of instructors is using yoga to counter tribalism and encourage peace-building in Kenya. The activity is reportedly helping people who have suffered violence and trauma in their lives. Kevin Mwachiro reports from Nairobi. 

The Beauty (and Charity) of Travel Coincidence

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Nov 17, 2011 Read original article here I was spending a rainy week in Santa Monica when I decided to take a yoga class one afternoon at a studio called Yogi’s Anonymous that was recommended to me by friends. Yogi’s is a modest facility opened last year by a transplanted...

How yoga is stretching the bodies and minds of Kenyans

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9 June 2010 In a funky red building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, something is happening that may, at first glance, seem rather unusual to passers-by. Read original article here About 70 young men and women are lying on their backs, their knees bent and feet firmly on the ground....

Yoga Provides Empowerment, Hope for Nairobi Slums

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NAIROBI - Daily life in the slums of Nairobi is a constant struggle - with people trying to scrape together money for food, rent, and school fees. And the slums were most affected by the 2007 Kenyan post-election violence. Yoga wouldn’t appear to be the most obvious solution to helping...

Kenyans bond through practice of yoga

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28 December 2010  A group of instructors is using yoga to counter tribalism and encourage peace-building in Kenya. The activity is reportedly helping people who have suffered violence and trauma in their lives.Kevin Mwachiro reports from Nairobi. Watch

Africa Yoga Project Educates, Empowers, Elevates and Expands Employability with youth in Africa using the transformational practice of yoga. Our vision is to create opportunities for youth to step into their greatness and become self-sustaining leaders in their communities.

There are so many ways to get involved with Africa Yoga Project through fundraising, mentorship, or service trips and more! Click the email icon above for more information!

For general information: info@africayogaproject.org

You can take class at the Shine Center when you’re in Kenya or hire a private instructor in any of the countries we have teachers in. Click the email icon above for more information!

For general information: info@africayogaproject.org

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