Founder and Executive Director Announces Departure
Kathryn Thomas, Founder and Executive Director of Yoga 4 Change, has announced her departure from the organization. Thomas’s final day in her current role will be April 30, 2021.
Yoga in the Time of Coronavirus
Yoga can help us to manage stress and self-regulate, an important tool in the current time. We are all equipped with innate coping strategies for responding to stress …
Primary Election Day; Stock Market; Yoga 4 Change
Listen to our Executive Director speak to First Coast Connect’s Melissa Ross about how we are supporting the community during this uncertain time.
Happy 6th Birthday Yoga 4 Change!
JACKSONVILLE, FL – Local nonprofit, Yoga 4 Change (Y4C), founded March 1st of 2014 turns 6 years old on Sunday. Yoga 4 Change invites the community to come out and celebrate the organization’s birthday the best way Y4C knows how: yoga for everyBODY! Join the community at Cultivate (2766 Park St, Jacksonville FL 32205) for community yoga from 10am-11am on the organization’s sixth birthday (March 1).
National Geographic features Jacksonville non-profit for using yoga to transform inmate sentences
“I started Yoga 4 change as a way to continue my own healing,” Thomas said. They have actually trained two former inmate students to become yoga teachers. Calkins is one of them. He now teaches at Warehouse Yoga at 8200 Cypress Plaza Dr. Suite 404.
Duval County judges first to order yoga for inmates
… She said this program helped her with rehabilitation and prepared her for life after jail. She is now an instructor with the local nonprofit and helps others with recovery.
YOGA 4 CHANGE: Study shows yoga can help felons re-enter civilian life
Watch the video HERE.
National Geographic features Jacksonville-based Yoga 4 Change
The Florida Times-Union: Kathryn Thomas founded Yoga 4 Change in 2014 and has implemented it into jails and for veterans, youth and those trying to beat drugs.
A Pilot Finds a New Mission
When Kathryn Monti Thomas ’07 was 11 years old, she saw a Navy helicopter demonstration. That’s when she knew she wanted to fly. …
The Beach Speaks: Kathryn Thomas on Yoga 4 Change
Listen as our Founder and Executive Director talks with Paige Riggins from The Beach Speaks.
