Yeah! Yoga

Our Mission

YEAH! YOGA is a youth development organization sharing the tools of yoga and mindfulness with youth involved with or impacted by the criminal legal system in the Greater New Orleans area. We nurture youth's physical and mental health, social emotional development, healing, and resilience to empower young leaders and help reduce carceral system involvement. We envision a world in which oppressive systems are dismantled, where trauma, poverty, and Blackness are not criminalized, and in which all youth are empowered with resources and opportunities to realize their human potential regardless of their social location. We envision youth that are empowered and self-actualized, that believe in their capacity to achieve their dreams and are supported in doing so.