Veterans yoga project
Healing Warriors Through Yoga
At Veterans Yoga Project (VYP), we work with veterans, their families, and the military community to help them LIVE, THRIVE, and BELONG. Our mission is to provide practices that make a real difference in how veterans manage pain and stress, while fostering a strong sense of community. In 2023, 72% of VYP’s online participants reported reduced pain, and 75% experienced less stress.
Our approach is based on:
Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery: An evidence-based, clinically-tested yoga program created specifically for veterans recovering from post-traumatic stress and other psychological challenges. This program has been shaped by feedback from hundreds of veterans and active-duty service members in both residential and outpatient treatment programs.
Building a Supportive Community: We focus on creating a space where veterans, their families, and supporters can connect and share a sense of belonging. By practicing together every day, we empower each other to heal and grow.
Utilizing Five Key Tools: In every practice, we incorporate Breath, Meditation, Mindful Movement, Guided Rest, and Gratitude. Our trained instructors guide you through these tools, giving you a direct experience of their healing benefits.
Join us and feel the difference! Visit us today!
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A week of peace, practice, and Community.
Stillness Season
This year’s Stillness Season was something special. Mala for Vets and Veterans Yoga Project came together to create five days of grounding, breath, and reconnection, and your participation made it powerful. Each guided practice helped our community slow down, breathe deeply, and return to themselves in the middle of a noisy season. We’re already looking forward to building on this energy next year and creating an even deeper reset for our Warrior community.
Stillness Season
Coming Home To Self
Monique Evans, LCSW, RYT, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher with over fifteen years of experience supporting veterans and their families. She offers gentle, mindfulness-based practices that help reduce stress and foster resilience. Monique values creating a steady, welcoming space where each person can simply breathe and be themselves.
Stillness Season
Being Light Being
Brian Garrison (BrianG) is a grateful being working at the intersections of addiction recovery, yogic realization, and trauma resilience. An addiction recovery expert, yogic student and practitioner, and trauma resilience builder, Brian is on a quest to end self-imposed suffering in his life and in the lives of others. Brian holds certifications as an eRYT-500+ Yoga Teacher and YACEP, as a Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Spaceholder, and as a Recovery 2.0 Yoga-informed Recovery Coach.
Stillness Season
Balance Body Scan
Mare Wilk - VYP yoga and meditation guide. Mare is a 22-year retired squid, with DD/DDG sea tours and Army combat tours; a Navy vet. Her service dog, Snyper, is a Great Pyr-mix. Her kitten, Whiskey, is a camera-demanding ninja. I began exploring yoga in 2020 as a way to physically and mentally rebuild. Yoga/meditation communities highlighted new “whys” in my life.
Stillness Season
Rain Meditation
Isah K - is a disabled United States Army combat veteran with 25 years of experience. She is a disciplined Wellness Coach and Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor, whose passion for total wellness encourages others to practice healthy lifestyles. As a TBI survivor and chronic pain sufferer, she’s found that yoga and mindfulness meditation fill the gap between medical appointments and medication.
Stillness Season
Strength In Stillness
Jasmin McGee - Jasmin carries a deep belief that her purpose is being in service to Community whether as a trauma-informed Yoga guide or as a Death Doula. She works hard to offer Community a space to heal, expand, grow, grieve, and process all that encompasses being a living being in this lifetime. It is her hope to offer all a moment wherein they can find a measure of peace for themselves in mind, body, heart and spirit.