Volunteering opportunity: "Yogathon 2014 - Rise for a cause"

[Bhavini Vyas]

Dear all,

 

I hope you are all enjoying our sweet start to summer J

 

I’m really happy to announce finally that UK will be part of the Global Yogathon 2014 - a global team of awesome people who are raising awareness and funds for one of the most incredible Art of Living service programs (Care for Children) that has given over 33,000 children in India the gift of education. 

 

Yogathon 2014 – Rise for a cause

 

The global date for Yogathon has been set! The world will come together to offer sun salutations and loving kindness on Saturday, August 16, 2014! Get ready for an epic Yogathon!

Saturday 16^th August 2014

 

Exciting news – As the date falls during our annual summer retreat, we can happily announce that the Yogathon will take place in the beautiful grounds of Newland Park, just outside of London. 

Newland Park

Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, HP8 4AD, UK

 

 

HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED:

The great thing about Yogathon is that EVERYONE can be involved and take part! The international team are in the final stages of preparing the global website where people from all over the world can register to participate n one of the listed cities. The link to register yourself and your friends and family for the UK will go live soon! - Watch this space!

 

If you’re wondering how you’ll manage to do 108  sun salutations, worry not – we have a 4 week and 8 week training schedule for you to get in gear! (The Yogathon will be in 10 weeks time!)

 

BUDGET:

All cities are responsible for managing their own event - The net proceeds from the event will support Care for Children. But it’s a great opportunity to raise some extra funds for AoL and our local projects too.  Any budgeting wizzes out there – Please get in touch!

 

BOOKING YOGA TEACHERS:

It’s not only for Sri Sri Yoga Teachers! You can also involve local non-Art of Living teachers from yoga studios.  Please get in touch if you or anyone you know would like the opportunity to help present a few sun salutations on the day – You just have to register at least 20 people for Yogathon 2014. 

We have a whole promotion pack for you to approach your local yoga studios with, so read on-

 

YOGA STUDIO OUTREACH:

The best target market for Yogathon is anyone who already practices yoga! So, hit up all the yoga studios in your city and ask them to participate, create a team and invite them to help lead sun salutations on stage! A yoga studio partnership package is available for those of you who would like to take this on. 

 

We already have a database of some of the major studios and yoga companies in London and around the UK that we can start approaching, because of our relationship with them from the national annual YogaShow, so some of the hard work has already been done!

 

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OUTREACH:

It’s a brilliant opportunity to get sponsorship from various companies and organisations to help our cause. Go out and ask local businesses to get involved! If you plan to ask local businesses to sponsor your event, start discussions with corporate representatives as early as possible. A corporate sponsorship package is available for you – please let us know!

 

Example: food and drink companies, health food stores, grocery stores etc. are some ideas to get you started. Look at your personal and professional networks - you might be surprised at how many people you know! :)

 

Tip: We can invite vendors to set-up a booth at our event (for a fee). We have booking forms for this too, so get in touch!

 

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, GooglePlus and Youtube - we have them ALL and the international team will get the links to us asap! For now, the hashtags are: #riseforacause and #yogathon2014

 

MEDIA OUTREACH:

We’ve got an AMAZING story to tell - one that unites the world! Go out and talk to local newspapers, radio and television stations! Let’s show the world what we’re doing! A press release is also available. 

 

LETS HAVE FUN! Let your creative juices flow and get out there and organize Yogathon 2014!   We promise you’ll not only make a big impact in the world, you’ll have a LOT of fun doing it!

 

If you’d like to be part of ‘Team Awesome’ (as we are officially called around the world) get in touch asap!

 

Love & JGD

Bhavini

 

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Bhavini Vyas

Sri Sri Yoga National Coordinator

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bhavin...@artoflivinglondon.org

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