The Yoga Show

Come and take part in the second Yoga Aid UK Challenge where up to 300 people are expected to participate in this 2 hour Yoga practice.

We have some of the world's leading Yoga teachers coming together to provide a unique Yoga experience and raise money for charity.

Open to anyone visiting the Yoga Show on Saturday 31st October, 2009. Register NOW and take the opportunity to practice with some of the world's leading teachers.

12 teachers will each lead 9 Sun Salutations each and these include some of the best teachers in the world who are participating at the UK Yoga Show.

The challenge is to complete 108 sun salutations and raise a minimum of £108 in sponsorship. Through the Yoga Aid website, all sponsorship money will go directly to your chosen charity.

We are supporting the following charities:

Multiple Sclorosis Society
The MS Society is the UK's largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS). We are a membership organisation but provide services to all. The Society funds MS research, runs respite care centres, provides grants (financial assistance), education and training on MS. It produces numerous publications on MS and runs a freephone specialist Helpline. We are committed to bringing high standards of quality health and social care within reach of everyone affected by MS and to encourage and support medical and applied research into its cause and control. We have a vision and mission for action across the UK. With a network of branches & regions across the UK, the Society has a National Centre in London and national offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales/Cymru

Prison Phoenix Trust
The Prison Phoenix Trust encourages prisoners in the development of their spiritual welfare, through the practices of meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath. We offer personal support to prisoners around the UK and Ireland through teaching, workshops, correspondence, books and newsletters - and to prison staff too. We work with people of any faith, or of none, and honour all religions.

Special Yoga Centre
The Special Yoga Centre in North London provides yoga therapy for children with special needs regardless of ability to pay. Each week we help over 350 children with conditions such as Downs Syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, ADD/ADHD and other physical and developmental difficulties. We also offer a wide variety of regular yoga classes, workshops and teacher training, which together with your donations, fund our yoga therapy programme for special needs children. .

Africa for Yoga Project
To empower youth, build a global community and increase well-being in East Africa. We have introduced hundreds of students in Kenya to the practice of yoga, as well provide educational scholarships, job training, food stipends, temporary housing and health services. Our core group of students are from impoverished backgrounds in Nairobi, Kenya, are between 16-30 years old and live on under $2 per day. Many are personally affected by HIV/AIDS and are living/have once lived on the streets.