New Programs

Oakland Unified School District
Dewy Academy and Street Academy. Provides health and leadership tools for dealing successfully with stress, increases focus and attention for enhanced academic potential, and creates positive role models in our schools and communities.

Berkeley Unified School District
Washington Elementary School. This program is designed to help young people build self-esteem and self-control to make healthier life choices. There is a strong focus on self-empowerment, to enable the realization of their full potential, and improve academic skills.

Oakland Parks and Recreation - Allendale Recreation Center
Requested by West Oakland youth, this program provides anger-management and violence-prevention tools for dealing with the pervasive presence of daily trauma and constant threat of violence. The program provides self-awareness and resistance skills for at-risk youth.

Ongoing Programs

Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center
Provides a comprehensive, multi-component discipline of Yoga, Breathwork, and Meditation for incarcerated youth in the B2 Mental Health Unit five days a week, and for all Juvenile Hall staff weekly. The nature and magnitude of this intervention makes it unique across the country. Preliminary program evaluation results indicate a statistically significant decrease in stress and increase in self-control, and has elicited an overwhelmingly positive response from youth and staff. Please see summary and report for more details on evaluation results.

Camp Wilmont Sweeney

Seneca Center - Violence-Prevention Program
Niroga works with Seneca to provide violence-prevention programs at Rock La Fleche Community Day School, an Alameda County Alternative High School for delinquent youth. This program began in 2005, and is documented in Niroga’s 8-minute video on youth development.

Alameda Point Collaborative
Provides Yoga, Breathwork, and Meditation as part of a combination of programs, including affordable housing, mental and physical health services and employment in an integrated, comprehensive effort for residents who consist of women and families recovering from domestic violence, adults and children with disabilities, persons living with AIDS and formerly homeless veterans and their families.

MPI Treatment Services, Alta Bates Summit Hospital, Sutter Health, Oakland
Yoga, breathwork, and meditation for people in rehab and recovery, including detox; helping deal with addiction, compromised immune systems, etc.; helping cope with stress, anger, anxiety, etc.; helping build self-control, self-confidence, and self-worth; two classes/week on site, one for clients and one for staff.

YMCA - Berkeley/Albany
Healing Yoga for seniors and people with chronic conditions, helping improve health and well-being generally, and with specific integral health interventions for many common chronic conditions, such as back and neck pain, arthritis, osteoporosis, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, chronic fatigue, repetitive strain injuries, stress, depression, insomnia, and others.

Alta Bates Comprehensive Cancer Center, Berkeley
Yoga, breathwork, and meditation for people with cancer; helping deal with effects of radiation and chemotherapy; helping cope with fear, stress, uncertainty, etc.; helping regain strength, flexibility, balance (see program evaluation); one class/week on-site and one class/week at Niroga South.