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