Yoga for the People – Denver, CO

July 14, 9am-3pm with a break for lunch. (Please bring a sack lunch, or plan to head somewhere nearby.)

Training location:  Warren Village Administrative Office – 1300 Gilpin St, Denver, CO

This training is appropriate for anyone interested in teaching community based yoga, or interested in serving special populations in their classes. Training will be required for people who would like to teach at a Yoga for the People site in 2012 and is great preparation for starting your own community-based site. Training covers a comprehensive array of topics designed to prepare you for teaching community based yoga on your own or at a YFP site including:

• History, Mission and Vision of Yoga for the People
• Program Evaluation
• Working with Special Populations including:
• kids/youth
• seniors/people with a disability
• community based classes
• Adjusting Students in a Community-Based Setting
• Professional Boundaries
• Self-Care
• Role Playing, Teaching and Hands On Activities

To register, please fill out a volunteer application and email your application to volunteer@yogaforthepeople.org. CEUs available.  To RSVP on Facebook, click here.  To register online, click here.

Suggested donation $50, appreciated, never required. Donations assist us in providing yoga services for communities in need and education and training to support our volunteer base.

YFP is hosting its second volunteer training of 2012 on Saturday, July 14 from 9 am-3 pm at Warren Village.  This training is available to any yoga teacher interested in teaching community based yoga or serving special populations. This training is required for volunteers who would like to teach at a Yoga for the People site in 2012 including all new volunteers and is optional for current volunteers who have already attended orientation.* The program cycle for trained volunteers matched with sites to teach yoga this spring will run July 9- August 13 (6 week commitment).

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Volunteer training covers a comprehensive array of topics designed to prepare you for teaching community based yoga on your own or at a YFP site including:
History, Mission and Vision of Yoga for the People
Program Evaluation
Working with Special Populations including:

• kids/youth
• seniors/people with a disability
• community based classes

Adjusting Students in a Community-Based Setting
Professional Boundaries
Self-Care
Role Playing, Teaching and Hands On Activities

To register for the YFP Volunteer Training, please click here.

Suggested donation of $50, appreciated, never required. Donations assist us in providing yoga services for communities in need and education and training to support our volunteer base.

*Future volunteer training dates are September 22. Future program cycles are July 9 – August 13 (6 week commitment) and Oct 1 – Dec 17 (12 week commitment). YFP volunteers may take any one of these trainings, as long as it is prior to your volunteer work.

 Current Volunteer Openings!!!
The following are volunteer yoga teacher positions that Yoga for the People is currently looking to fill. 
E-mail regan@yogaforthepeople.org for more information or to express interest in a volunteer placement.

*Note: Volunteers positions at Bridge Project and Growing Home are high energy placements and require an interest in working with kids (experience working with at-risk youth is helpful).

Co-teaching with a friend/partner is also a viable possibility at most of the placements.

1. Bridge Project: After-school program for kids living in Denver’s public housing neighborhoods - Quigg Newton site - 4558 Navajo St., north Denver (just off I-70 and Pecos): Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm (first half hour is K-2nd grade, second half hour is 3rd-5th grade), approximately 5-10 kids – placement ends in May/June

2.   Bridge Project: After-school program for kids living in Denver’s public housing neighborhoods - South Lincoln site  – 1217 W. 10th Ave., Denver (2 blocks west of 10th and Kalamath): Tuesdays 5-6pm – placement ends in May/June

3. Growing Home: After school activities for youth – Global Leadership Academy – 7480 Conifer Rd, north Denver (near 75th and I-25): Wednesdays, 4:45-5:30pm (slightly flexible time), 15 kids, K-2nd grade (BILINGUAL IN SPANISH A PLUS, BUT NOT NECESSARY) – placement ends in May

4.   Growing Home: After school activities for youth – Westminster Elementary – 7482 Irving Street, Westminster (near 75th and Lowell): Wednesdays, 4:15-5pm (slightly flexible time), K-2nd grade – placement ends in May

5. Denver Health – Park Hill Community Clinic - 4995 E 33rd Avenue, Denver: Lunchtime class, 1x/week, 12pm-1pm – day of the week is flexible – placement end-date is currently indefinite

6. Denver Health – Eastside Community Clinic - 501 28th St., Denver: Lunchtime class, 1x/week, 12pm-1pm – day of the week is flexible – placement end-date is currently indefinite

7. Denver Health – Staff Class – 990 Bannock St, Denver: Wednesdays, 4:30pm – placement end-date is currently indefinite

8. MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) – Zion Lutheran Church, Brighton – 1400 Skeel Street, Brighton: 9:30-10:30am, every other Friday beginning February 5th – approximately 10 mothers, maybe with a few minutes involving the preschoolers at the end of each session – placement end-date is currently indefinite