Pandemic Relief Aid to India
If you've benefited from the wisdom practice known as yoga, rooted in centuries of teachings originating from South Asia, then you are connected to India. Your yoga teachers, your teachers' teachers, and their teachers before are inextricably linked to this "land of devotion," also known as Bharat, or cherished one. Some among Sun & Moon's vast network of teaching community were born and raised there, have family there, or have traveled and studied there themselves. Many of us have studied directly from Indian teachers, and virtually all of us have studied with teachers whose own Indian gurus were among the most influential innovators of yoga in the 20th century.
The physical, intellectual, and spiritual roots of yoga lie in this place that is buckling under the pandemic. With global records for daily new coronavirus cases and daily COVID-19 deaths, hospitals across the country are overrun, and the healthcare system is collapsing under the heavy need for oxygen, test kits, vaccines, and other medical supplies. Basic daily needs for food and shelter compete with needs for care of the dead, as cremations overflow onto street corners.
If you love yoga, please consider sending some of that love back to its hurting home.
Click here for our curated list of of groups who are helping on the front lines. If you have personal ties or direct knowledge of additional organizations, please let us know and we'll add them to our list.
In deep gratitude,
Annie, Amir, and the whole Sun & Moon Family