From November 8 - 18, 2019, Veterans Yoga Project will be hosting our sixth annual national yoga event. Veterans Yoga Project Gratitude Week enables communities to support recovery and resilience among our veterans, families, and communities. We raise awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress (Disorder) and the work we are doing through yoga classes and events across the USA. Veterans Gratitude Week enables communities to support recovery and resilience among our veterans, families, and communities.
Estimates of PTSD Among Veterans
- 500,000 Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom & New Dawn Veterans with PTS(D)
- 80,000 Gulf War Veterans with PTS(D)
- 420,000 Vietnam Veterans with PTS(D)
In 2018, Veterans Yoga Project documented over 20,775 visits by veterans and their family members to classes taught by VYP-trained teachers. VYP has also documented that Mindful Resilience leads to clinically significant reductions in Pain and Distress among veterans in treatment at VAs and Vet Centers. Most importantly, we hear back from the clinicians, clinical directors, and the veterans and their family members themselves, that we are creating space for real healing, empowerment, and resilience.
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Marilyn Whalen | 12/02/2019 | $350.00 | cash received from yoga class given donations for VYP at green tea yoga salem and salem fitness salem ma. Marilyn Whalen was the yoga teacher | Maggie Winter | 11/23/2019 | $50.00 | Tara O'Leary Maccarthy | 11/19/2019 | $25.00 | Alvin Billings | 11/19/2019 | $10.00 | William Irving | 11/18/2019 | $20.00 | Lesley Dexter | 11/16/2019 | $25.00 | Martha Cesarz | 11/14/2019 | $25.00 | Susan Hargraves | 11/14/2019 | $50.00 | Veterans have made us what we are today - Free. Thank you to all of our Vets! | Edward Cahill | 11/14/2019 | $10.00 | Anne Romano | 11/13/2019 | $25.00 | Kate Enderlin | 11/12/2019 | $25.00 | Kate Enderlin | 11/12/2019 | $25.00 | Ann Bush | 11/11/2019 | $25.00 | A very worthy cause. | Rita Burke | 11/11/2019 | $15.00 | Marilyn Whalen | 11/10/2019 | $50.00 | I know personally how yoga /meditation has transformed my life and the lives of my students. Im thrived that there is an organization like VYP that can encourage the same opportunity to our troops | Richard Falanga | 11/10/2019 | $50.00 |
| Total | $780.00 | ||