Yoga in Action ✦
We help communities ✸ breathe ◖
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund with programmes by Zenmuma, ZenKids & Freedom Yoga Retreats
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200+ yoga practitioners trained
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100% positive feedback
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26 Norfolk schools supported so far
Socially inclusive change
Freedom Wellbeing Project CIC is a community development project formed by Jackie Heffer-Cooke, senior yogi and scholar of Global Social Development. Set up to empower, inspire and share yoga with underserved communities in Norfolk, we are supporting children, families and adults to achieve better mental, emotional and physical health.
We are creating a world of thriving mental, physical and social wellbeing, where the benefits of yoga are authentically accessible and inclusive of all. Join our community of Yoga in Action practitioners and make a difference to young people, mothers and neurodiverse communities across Norfolk today.
Free, funded training
We are looking for 12 practitioners to train in community yoga in specialist areas who will then deliver a 6 week programme whilst being mentored to deliver high impact social change programmes around Norfolk.
Funded wellbeing training & workshops ✦
Funded wellbeing training & workshops ✦
For the Norfolk ✦ community
We work with schools, charities and facilitators to create sustainable positive change in their local area. Could you be one of 12 practitioners that we are training for FREE to deliver either yoga for kids, for neurodivergent children, for pregnancy or for new mums in your community?
Wellbeing for all
The CIC aims are to ensure that therapeutic tools and techniques including breathwork, mindfulness, sharing circles and yoga are accessible for everyone, and especially for people who experience enduring barriers to financial security, wellbeing and health.
Become a Yoga in Action practitioner
The training includes 3 days of contact training, employment as a Yoga in Action teacher for 6 weeks and regular mentoring and check ins with us. We support you to support others by empowering you to offer weekly wellbeing classes in your local school or community, covering mindful movement, breathwork, sharing circles and yoga. Join us?
This new project focuses on three key vulnerable communities at risk of social isolation, mental health challenges or who face barriers to accessing the benefits of yoga and mindfulness - neurodivergent children, pregnant mums and new mums. Each programme is part of a 6 week training and mentorship project and this year we are recruiting 12 practitioners to put yoga in action and support their local communities.
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FREE training
A 3 day course worth £750 to equip you with the skills and resources to share yoga with those in your community that need it most.
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Teach weekly classes
In exchange, you run classes in local communities of need, and you receive payment from us for being an official Yoga in Action practitioner.
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Mentorship & support
We create sustainable change in communities through mentoring that ensures you feel confident & supported in your development as a facilitator.
Yoga ✦ for
neurodivergence
Funded training to share the transformative power of yoga with neurodivergent children in your school or community. Help young people regulate their nervous systems and navigate growth and development with mindfulness practices to soothe and support. Research suggests that neurodivergent adolescents may be up to ten times more at risk of mental health difficulties, so let’s put yoga in action to strengthen the wellbeing of the next generation.
Supporting ✦ local
pregnant mothers
New and pregnant mothers are at greater risk of social isolation, loneliness and poor physical and mental health, particularly those who have experienced trauma and abuse. Learn how you can support mothers to build their physical & mental wellbeing and resilience through yoga, and bring these benefits to mothers that otherwise might not be able to access it. Put yoga in action today and train to be a facilitator, for free.
Empowering local
✦ new mums
Bring the benefits of yoga to new mums in the postnatal period, a critical and vulnerable time for maternal mental health. Yoga has demonstrated a notable positive impact during this time, especially on postnatal mood, which is why we are creating safe, inclusive spaces for mums to come together and connect with themselves, others and their babies through yoga and mindfulness . Train with us to share the positivity in your local community today.
Make ◖ change today
If you are interested in joining our training and mentorship programmes, please fill out an application form.
We cannot wait to bring yoga and wellbeing to communities that need it most - and change the world for the better, one breath at a time.