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Spread Peace through Yoga

Empowering refugees and conflict survivors to manage their own healing and wellbeing with tools from yoga.

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16 February 2026

The Resilience Retreat, 15-17 May 2026

A Weekend of Trauma-Informed Yoga in Nature Friday, 15th May, 5pm – Sunday, 17th May, 2pm Grempoli Retreat, 7...

by Minna
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20 July 2025

Community Really is a Super-Power

We received this precious feedback from our recent refugee yoga retreat, held for the second time at Lockerbrook Farm...

by Minna
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Recent News

4 November 2022

Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha – now in Arabic

We are delighted to offer this classic yoga text to all yoga teachers and serious yoga practitioners in the...

by Minna
4 November 2022

Street Youth Yoga in Sierra Leone

From the Community, For the Community The YAMA (Yoga and Music Arts) Project was founded by ex-street youth wanting...

by Minna
20 December 2017

Refugee Yoga in the UK

“I can safely say if it wasn’t for those classes during last winter I would be sure to be...

by Minna
tools for inner peace yoga in lebanon
20 December 2017

Yoga for Peace in Lebanon

“Peace begins with a smile” In an unprecedented and intensifying flood, 60 million people around the world have become...

by Minna

How It Works

Asana, earth
18 February 2016

Asana

To release stress, it is often enough to move and stretch our tense, strained bodies while focussing on the breath....

by Minna
Pranayama, fire
18 February 2016

Pranayama

Following the asanas, pranayama or breathing techniques pave the way to relaxation and meditation, bringing the mind to a...

by Minna
Yoga Nidra, water
18 February 2016

Yoga Nidra

Yoga nidra is a form of relaxation and meditation that allows one to access the deepest realms of consciousness....

by Minna
Meditation, air
18 February 2016

Meditation

The meditation techniques learned at a Tools for Inner Peace retreat aim to develop the ability to observe thought...

by Minna

About us

28 January 2015

Helen Cushing (Swami Ahimsadhara)

Ahimsa has coordinated weekly classes for war veterans in Australia since 2004. Ahimsa also taught women refugees from Afghanistan,...

by Minna
28 January 2015

Lisa Alessandra
Gautschi (Yogatara)

Lisa Alessandra Gautschi (Yogatara) is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), transpersonal psychologist, as well as yoga instructor and...

by Minna
28 January 2015

Catherine Sylvia Nelson (Swami Shaktimurti)

Shaktimurti is an authentic and highly respected yoga instructor who teaches traditional yoga. Her own journey began in 1993...

by Minna
28 January 2015

Minna Järvenpää (Mantramala)

Minna originally discovered yoga and meditation as a means of maintaining balance under stressful – and occasionally dangerous –...

by Minna

"Only inner peace can lead to world peace. That alone is true service of humanity."

- Swami Sivananda Saraswati


"Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world."

- Dalai Lama

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