I've been participating in Yoga Reaches Out Yogathons since 2014.
Why? Because I am passionate about yoga, so the ability to apply it to a charity that helps children and families at Boston Children’s Hospital is a win win for me. On April 28, I’ll join the On the Mat Yoga team, led by owner Ramsay Trussell, who will be one of the teachers on the stage in front of 1,000 at the WIN Waste Field House. It will be an inspirational day of yoga, music, and fundraising—all to bring lifesaving answers and hope to the sickest children from around the world.
In 2015, YRO went to the Bay Area where I was able to directly support Oakland Children's Hospital where my sister, Kassie, was a surgery patient with hydocephalus for the first 10 years of her life. The ability to bring one's passion to support others who have gone through similar life journeys makes this event and cause especially meaningful to me.
- give children battling the most complex diseases treatments they can’t find anywhere else;
- help children in your town and those across the world get a second chance;
- fuel 3,600+ researchers working to find cures at the world’s leading pediatric research hospital;
- help patient-families (many of whom travel from far away to find answers) with urgent needs, including housing, food and clothing;
- bring crucial care to families through not one, but four outpatient psychiatry clinics;
- provide wellness services like Reiki, yoga and a safe place to simply exhale for families facing the stress of caring for a critically ill child;
- and so much more.