2014 Newtown Yoga Festival to Benefit Sandy Hook Promise

Press release from Newtown Yoga Festival:

Sandy Hook Promise is hosting the second annual Newtown Yoga Festival this coming August 23, 2014. The goal of the Yoga Festival is to promote a positive sense of community and healing in Newtown.

World-renowned yoga teachers Ray Crist, Tiffany Maloney, and Jennifer Reis, as well as people Newtown-area yoga community, will lead us in practice and meaningful conversation. There will be local health and wellness vendors, live music, and kid’s activities featuring a children’s yoga class with Newtown’s own Karen Pierce.

All proceeds from the day’s event will support Sandy Hook Promise, the community organization created to honor and support family members of the 20 children, 4 teachers and 2 administrators killed, the 2 teachers wounded, 12 surviving children, as well as the first responders, teachers, staff and children at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.

The festival will be held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at NYA Sports and Fitness located at 4 Primrose Street, Newtown, CT. Suggested donation amount is $25 for participants. For more information visit Newtown Yoga Festival’s website or Facebook page.

How Yoga Can Help Heal Newtown

Sandy Hook Promise is devoted to the well-being and healing of the community of Newtown in the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Yoga is a wonderful tool that can heal the spirit, body, and mind and has been proven effective in reducing stress and depression. Yoga is a healing system that creates strength and harmony in both the mind and the body.

Yoga is an excellent mechanism for coping with physical and emotional stress and it promotes positive, spiritual well-being. Encouraging a mindful yoga practice helps fulfill the mission of Sandy Hook Promise to find holistic approaches to reducing violence.

Renowned Yoga Instructors Coming to Newtown

Jennifer Reis, Tiffany Maloney, and Ray Crist are extremely respected and influential members of the worldwide yoga community. They have graciously donated their time to help the community of Newtown in its healing process.

About Sandy Hook Promise

Sandy Hook Promise is a non-profit community organization dedicated to healing the Newtown community, supporting the families of those who lost loved ones on December 14, 2012, and to stemming the tide of violence that resulted in so much loss in the Newtown community. Sandy Hook Promise is committed to encouraging a national dialogue about what we can all do to make our communities safer. We want Newtown to be remembered as the place where we came together both as a community and as a nation and decided that we must do everything we can to prevent tragedies from gun violence.

About Your Contribution

Sandy Hook Promise Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization. Contributions to the foundation are tax deductible. Contributions will be used to:

Provide the immediate and long-term financial, in-kind and other aid to family members who lost loved ones, to survivors, to teachers and staff, to first responders and to our community; helping each and every one through this horrific tragedy.

Research the causes of gun violence in the areas of mental health, family, community, school safety and gun responsibility.

Develop and implement non-legislative (does not require Congress, state assembly to pass law, governing rules, etc.) solutions/initiatives to address the causes of gun violence in the areas of mental health, family, community, school safety and gun responsibility.

Fund the overhead (rent, utilities, etc.) and administrative costs.

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