Foundation

Vision

Abhaya Yoga Foundation (AYF) is committed to empowering individual and collective growth through Yoga and Yoga Education.

Mission

Abhaya Yoga Foundation empowers groups who may not normally have access to the powerful teachings of Yoga.

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Initiatives

AYF offers scholarship education, experience in Yoga, meditation, and lifestyle practices that trains each teacher or service yogi how to guide each student toward healing and their own inherent freedom. AYF’s generative model of training teachers and service oriented individuals provides a network of skilled professionals to serve in the greater AYF programs.
  • Marginalized Groups
  • At Risk Youth
  • Elder Programs
  • Women’s Trauma

Core Values

  • EMPOWERMENT
  • HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION
  • OPEN MINDED APPROACH
  • COMMUNITY SUPPORT
  • TRAUMA SENSITIVE WORK

Teacher Training Scholarships

Abhaya Yoga Foundation (AYF) is a Non-Profit 501C3 dedicated to offering high quality yoga education, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyle practices to disadvantaged groups who would normally not have access, due either to financial hardship and/or exclusion. With the support of community members like you, we are able to offer scholarships to provide 200 yoga teacher training. Our scholarship program is focused on bringing diversity to yoga and to that end awardees have all been members of the groups listed below, and all have multiple intersections within these groups.
  • BIPOC
  • LBGTQ+
  • Trauma survivors
AYF student teachers and graduates have the responsibility and benefit to be integrated into the on-site and off-site yoga and Seva programs by giving back what they have learned.
  • Discover our teacher training courses including 200-Hour and 300-Hour programs toward Yoga Alliance RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) designation.
  • Read testimonials from our recent teacher training and AYF teacher training graduates

Founder

Tara Glazier founded the Abhaya Yoga Foundation with the intention to share yoga with broader demographic and serve a more sensitive and disadvantaged population. She founded Abhaya Yoga, a community oriented yoga and education center in 2010, and had further ambition in 2015 to begin and found the Non-Profit, Foundation work. Having seen a deficit in the yoga community at large, it was Tara’s wish was to provide scholarships for Yoga Teacher Training. Tara’s work through AYF continues to serve by offering space, education, and trained AYF teachers to City-As ( at risk youth), Service Programs benefitting children and elders, and soon – Women’s Trauma programs.

Board Members

A special thank you to our Board Members who have supported our programs
  • Tara Glazier- President/ Founder
  • Robert Sumanis – Treasurer
  • Simone Amber
  • Margarita Morello
  • James Payor
  • Consultant: Susan Kotcher
We are 501(c3) charity all donations are tax deductible