Tools for Inner Peace

Yoga for Peace in Lebanon

Read about Tools for Inner Peace work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon where as many as 45% suffer from trauma and mental health problems
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"I come feeling psychologically tired or angry, but after yoga I relax and spend the rest of the day happy." - Participant in refugee class in Saadnayel, Lebanon
Yoga for Refugees

Tools for Inner Peace has been offering yoga to refugee groups in London and beyond since 2016. Find out more...

4 November 2022

Community Yoga Teacher Training, Liverpool, 2023-24

The aim of this training is to transmit, over a one year period, principles and practices of traditional yoga...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bryan Dalton

Bryan served as a United States diplomat for 28 years, retiring after postings in Asia and Europe as consul,...

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