We believe it's everyone's right to preventative, non-invasive treatments, healthful nutrition with guidance and wellness classes like Yoga and Tai Chi. Everyone, regardless of age, needs the knowledge to help stay healthy. We teach healthy living in mind, body and spirit. We offer information to our participants, on health and wellness, regardless of their ability to pay. Helping them realize how healthier choices can make a big impact on their lives. This is achieved by opening centers with skilled volunteer professionals wanting to give of their time to serve communities with classes and individual care. We do outreach to local schools, community centers & shelters to match our practitioners with their constituents.

Problem

We believe it's everyone's right to preventative, non-invasive treatments, healthful nutrition with guidance and wellness classes like Yoga and Tai Chi. Everyone, regardless of age, needs the knowledge to help stay healthy. We teach healthy living in mind, body and spirit. We offer information to our participants, on health and wellness, regardless of their ability to pay. Helping them realize how healthier choices can make a big impact on their lives. This is achieved by opening centers with skilled volunteer professionals wanting to give of their time to serve communities with classes and individual care. We do outreach to local schools, community centers & shelters to match our practitioners with their constituents.

Solution

We are very unique in that we offer a broad range of therapies and guidance, from individual care which we follow up with continuous classes, all available free of charge- in English, Spanish and other languages- opening up the preventative medical care to everyone. Providing free classes in Nutrition, Dance, Yoga, Pilates, Awareness Through Movement, Tai Chi and so on, providing referrals for people in need to practitioners such as free or low cost clinics cultivating a broad database of self-help techniques, exercises, practitioners and a forum to ask questions and get answers from our professionals. There are not other spaces such as ours. We also offer free teachers to local schools, nursing homes, shelters and other programs to bring the nutrition and movement classes to those who cannot easily come to our location. We are proud to be a pioneer in the complementary health field, being a non-profit, purely community driven model.

Example

We offer free classes in Nutrition, Dance, Yoga, Pilates, Awareness Through Movement, Tai Chi and Meditation. Through these classes people learn non- invasive methods to treat themselves and they prevent health problems in their future. We also offer private clinic treatments by professionals in Bodywork, Feldenkrais, Ayurveda, Herbs, and Homeopathy. By providing one on one care to those in need of help so they can be free of chronic pain and conditions in acute manners. Treatment also allows them to be able to work & function on a higher level. Showing people how to shop healthfully in their area via farmers markets and how to read food labels, as well as easy home exercises and practices to maintain health and strength. Lastly, our space is a community art studio with music, dancing and open mic as well as screenings of important film works, about the health of ourselves and our planet.

Marketplace

Most of the people that we treat are from low-income backgrounds and will reflect the problems facing the community related to diet and exercise. The community that we treat is a mix of races so we get a lot of diversity. We've found that in many under-served communities there is a greater risk of unhealthy lifestyles because of the perceived cost attributed to a healthy lifestyle. The more we work with our community the more we learn and the more we can shape our programs to fit the needs of our patients.