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

Spread Peace through Yoga

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

Our Vision for 2020: spread peace through yoga.

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10 December 2021

“Sow seeds of love wherever you go”

– Quote by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati These are some personal reflections by Mantramala (Minna Jarvenpaa) on the Yoga Pura...

by Minna
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25 August 2021

What the Research Says: a study of our Yoga for Peace project

Mind, body and community: The potential for yoga as mental health and psychosocial support in emergency contexts Jessica Stone...

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Recent News

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
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
Bryan Dalton
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

"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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