Serving Those Who Serve Others
Serving Those Who Serve Others is one of the three pillars of Kripalu’s impact work, along with Access for All and Amplify Voices. We aspire to center and uplift the lived experiences of diverse, historically marginalized, and appropriated communities who haven’t been adequately supported in our field.
One way we do this is by delivering transformational programs to those who serve—including first responders, frontline workers, activists, artists, and nonprofit leaders—as well as to the vulnerable populations they support.
RISE RESILIENCY TRAINING
The Kripalu Approach to Stress Management
Kripalu’s signature evidence-based RISE program offers a set of breathing, meditation, and movement practices to support those in high-stress, high-stakes environments.
RISE is a life-altering program, impacting both individuals and organizations alike through yoga and mindfulness-based practices. Each RISE program is designed to support clarity and resilience, improved situational awareness, better decision making, work/life integration. Results can be evident in the short term, and with a commitment to practice, can last a lifetime.
For the past 10 years, RISE has delivered this deeply impactful program to frontline providers and leadership in critical social institutions across North America, including Health & Human Services, Educators, Corporations, and First Responders.
Activists & Artists in Residence
Activists and Artists need radical rest. Kripalu offers them sponsored residencies on our campus for a mid-week stay to give them a chance to restore. Activists may include frontline workers, nonprofit founders, and practitioners. Artists may include visual artists, writers, musicians, dancers, poets, filmmakers, actors, storytellers, designers, directors, producers, and creators who are leaders in whole-being liberation work, or are agents of institutional and systemic change.
The mid-week stay provides an opportunity to rest and heal by enjoying our Retreat & Renewal classes, nourishing food, and sacred lands.
Travel is not included. For more information regarding the AIR program, please email regenerativecommunity@kripalu.org or submit your application below.
Transformational Leadership Retreat
Calling all organizational leaders: Join Kripalu CEO Robert Mulhall, Director of Creative Strategy and Programming Eset Rose, and Lead Kripalu Faculty Edi Pasalis, for a five-day, on campus program open to leaders of nonprofit organizations.
Through a variety of techniques (and in a completely PowerPoint free zone!), you will experience:
- Individual reflection, co-coaching, contemplation, team exercises, discussion
- The quiet of a retreat with the activity of experiential leadership development
- The space to explore, experiment, and reflect on your leadership.
Together, we will examine the fundamental aspects of leadership—what we do as leaders, who we are, and how we show up.
YOGA IN THE SCHOOLS
A Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum For Adolescents
Mental health issues in adolescents are an escalating national crisis, with unmanaged stress linked to challenges like depression and anxiety.
Research by Kripalu, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School reveals that yoga can cultivate adolescents’ stress resilience, self-acceptance, and self-regulation. Learning these skills is critical for this generation’s well-being and future.
Our signature Yoga in the Schools program is an evidence-based curriculum designed to improve adolescents’ mental, social, and emotional well-being. Students learn yoga fundamentals for self-awareness, self-management, and integrating wellness practices into everyday life.
Communities Served
In endeavoring to create a Kripalu where anyone who walks through our doors feels a sense of belonging and feels seen in their fullness, these are the groups Kripalu strives to take into consideration by acknowledging the unequal starting places and imbalances that they face in the wellness community: Global Majority, BIPOC , South Asian, AAPI, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Frontline Workers, Educators, Human Resources, Healthcare, Veterans, Homeless, Incarcerated, Addiction Services, Immigrant and Refugee Populations, Elderly, Youth (Highschool; Elementary; Kindergarten), Disabled: Neurodivergent and ADA.
All of the initiatives above are driven and supported by generous donors. Charitable gifts to Kripalu help underwrite the direct and indirect costs of our service to the world.The programs described here are part of Kripalu’s ongoing commitment to making our work and offerings more accessible and equitable. In the spirit of Swami Kripalu, we seek to make Kripalu a place of belonging for all. To fulfill this commitment, we rely on community. Your engagement is more than welcome—it’s essential.