We Must Become as Gardeners
Garden Your World:
Plant Seeds of Goodness with YSI
Nurture YSI’s Mission
Your contribution fuels our work in bringing authentic yoga wisdom to the world.
Help Non-Profits Thrive
We extend support to organizations that uplift and serve communities and your contribution gives YSI a chance to plant seeds we need.
Sow seeds in these fertile gardens:
SOW SEEDS:
✨ CLARITY— discover your heart’s motivation
💸 SECURITY — increasing financial resources
🤲 TEACHERS —keeping our teachers close
Yoga Studies Institute
Service
We source our material from over two million pages of classic Asian texts, which our partners at the Asian Legacy Library have preserved and digitized. Together, our teams have taken painstaking measures to translate, understand, and apply the original yogic texts, all so that we could share them with you in a clear and accessible way.
Projects in 2024:
- Hatha Yoga Pradipika 3 + 4
- Lady Niguma Levels 1 + 2
- Retreats in Sedona, Diamond Mountain, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Turkey
- Inner Kingdom
- Yoga Sutra Chapter 1
- Practice Club Membership Community
- Drops of Wisdom
SOW SEEDS:
☕️ COMFORT —supportive and beautiful environments
👥 HOPE —never feel alone, always capable of changes
✨ PURPOSE —use your life for something meaningful
SANTOSHA Village
Creating spaces where everyone, especially our most forgotten citizens, can have a sense of belonging, community and well-being
Service
- Creating a more fulfilling life for ALL, especially those who find themselves in a cycle of poverty.
- Pada: A self care journal and life program - 100% of proceeds help the homeless. Buy it here!
- Santosha Village is a unique nature centered village of RVs, Tiny Houses and Yurts of about 40 residents, who pay a very affordable all inclusive rent and help maintain the village.
Impact
- Santosha Village: Campground, sustainable farm, transformational space
- Shala Housing: Affordable housing with all basic needs included in rent & community
- The Bus: A school bus that has been converted into a unique community center that is run collectively by the homeless
Moksha Yoga
SOW SEEDS:
🧘🏻♂️ PEACE — freedom from mental affliction
💪 HEALTH — eliminate addictions
🤲🏼 INTEGRATION — acceptance in society
Moksha Yoga
Moksha is dedicated to transforming lives through yoga. We guide inmates on a journey of reflection, growth, and new ways of relating with their body and mind. Our program creates inner and outer peace, positive connections create a ripple of transformation because the Individual growth can inspire society, building a more compassionate and inclusive community.
Service
Our Goal is to bring Peace. Awareness. Change. inside and outside prison walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Because inner freedom is a right—and a possibility for all. Moksha has been transforming lives since 2015:
- ✨ 10 years of yoga in 5 prisons
- 👥 2,000 inmates served
- 🧑🏫 70 yoga teachers trained
- 💜 150 dedicated volunteers
Impact
Your donation will directly fund:
- Yoga Class materials
- Volunteer travel expenses, uniforms and documentation
SOW SEEDS:
🫚HEALTH — access to health care services
😄JOY — laughter in the most difficult moments.
🫶 SUPPORT — care, guidance and love from others
Maria Cecilia Foundation
Visit Maria Cecilia Foundation
Many years ago, María Cecilia, 12 years old, fell ill with leukemia. When she passed away, she left in her parents’ hearts a dream: "To help all the children who go through the same as María Cecilia." Thus the María Cecilia Foundation was born, and in 1995 they founded the first public and free pediatric onco-hematology service in Latin America, within the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There we care for children with cancer, healing, relieving, and accompanying the children and their families.
Service
For 30 years they ensure that hundreds of children with cancer are cared for, comforted, and accompanied with love.
Impact
Your donations cover the treatment and care of hundreds of patients. The yearly cost is approximately $5,000 USD per patient.
SOW SEEDS:
🛠️ MASTERY – confidence in skills to transform the world
🥇 TEAMWORK –aligning efforts for lasting impact
🌲 SERENITY – feel at peace with your purpose
Stewardship School
Giving Tree’s new educational program, Stewardship School, empowers young adults to live a wholesome life by combining hands-on gardening through Permaculture Design with inner development through Yoga & Meditation. This immersive program blends hard skills like gardening, soft skills like non-violent communication and mentorship with guides and counselors as young adults engage in personal development and real-world projects in the garden.
Service
Students will learn skills in Outer & Inner landscaping as a primer for a future career as Yoga Teachers and Permaculture Designers. They will learn Outer Landscaping methods with hands-on experience in:
- land, soil & water management
- how to build a garden from bare dirt
- how to design systems that produce abundance for people while caring for the Earth
- physical fitness & hygiene
- develop emotional intelligence
- yoga movement, breath control and meditation
Impact
Your donation will be used to:
- provide scholarships to young adults for our Stewardship School program
- turn dirt into food at non-profit organizations in North Carolina & Arizona
Osaka Orphanage
SOW SEEDS:
🏡 SHELTER — safe and loving home to live in.
👨👩👦👦 FAMILY SECURITY — care, guidance, and love they deserve
📚 EDUCATION — resources to complete your studiess
Osaka Orphanage
The Holy Family Orphanage provides home for the 100 children (25 are babies) who live there.
Service
Take care of basic needs, education, recreation, and emotional development but it is not enough for all kids to have a social life and for staff.
Impact
Your donation will be used to:
- expand facilities that help to enrich the lives of children
- improve learning, supplement meals, recreational activities, improve living conditions,
- pay for other amenities that a provide a safe and healthy life for foster children
Red Envelopes
SOW SEEDS:
🧘🏻♂️ TEACHERS – keeping teachers close
💪 RECOGNITION – be appreciated for your work
🤲🏼 LINEAGE – keeping the teachings alive
