Rice Child and Family Center

We offer 4 yoga classes a week to 8-14 year old kids who are living in a residential treatment facility in Evanston. These are some of the highest need cases in Illinois, and we are proud to say that they find yoga to be a highlight of their week. They engage well with the postures, and tend to leave class feeling calmer and happier.

A little more about the Rice Child & Family Center: Children with a history of violence and abuse often exhibit extremely volatile and severe behavior. Inevitably, well meaning foster parents are unable to deal with these behaviors, often resulting in the child becoming a ward of the state.

The Rice Child + Family Center is focused on treating these vulnerable children with a goal of returning them to a loving family. The therapy services offered through the Rice Child + Family Center are round the clock and intensive. Highly trained therapists work with the children to correct negative behavior and reinforce positive social contact. Therapy is conducted in individual and group settings, and includes social skills training, counseling, and psychiatric intervention.

All of the services provided by the Rice Child + Family Center are administered in-house. The facility includes a medical clinic, group therapy classrooms, special education facilities and an art therapy area.

If you would like to make a donation to the yoga program, which has proven to be an effective new therapeutic treatment for the students, please go here.

Arlyn School

For two years, we taught weekly yoga at the Arlyn School, a small private school for children in need of a therapeutic educational setting. The kids seemed to really like breathing and relaxation.

Yoga for Girls

Lela has ended her weekly Yoga for Young Women class and now offers occasional workshops for up-and-coming yoginis. She is available for small group privates, birthday parties and other playful events.

Girl Scout Yoga

Lela also teaches yoga to Girl Scouts and their parents. She offers reasonable per-student rates.

Web Design

Nick supplements his yoga income with small-time website design and maintenance. He focuses on simple, elegant site design using XHTML and CSS. Clients include White Iris Yoga, The Wild Tree Café, the Chicago School of Violin Making and Many Healing Paths. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information or a project estimate.

Northwestern Wildcats Camp

In the summers of 2005 and 2006, we taught 150 Wildcats Sports campers how to balance on one foot, do sun salutations, and most importantly, RELAX. The kids were 7 to 12, divided by age into three groups. The older kids seemed to really like the postures. The youngest group had a shorter attention span, so we mostly played games like Red Light, Green Light with yoga poses. We just did it once a session this year, and the kids seemed much more accepting and enthusiastic. The counselors especially liked the relaxation at the end!