Friday, November 9, 2012
Wayland yogi Sarah Gardner founded Yoga Reaches Out as a charity yoga organization. Later this month, she'll ask kids to get involved.
Sarah Gardner founded Yoga Reaches Out with a goal of combining her passion for yoga with her drive to help children in need. In 2010, Yoga Reaches out held its first yogathon at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. That one-day event drew 450 yogis to the Field House at Gillette and raised about $225,000 for Children’s Hospital Boston and the charity Yoga for Single Moms. Then in 2012, a second yogathan at Gillette drew about 650 participants and raised more than $200,000 for Children's Hospital Boston and the Africa Yoga Project. Gardner is now taking her passion for yoga and helping kids to a new level through the first Yoga Reaches Out Kids' Yogathon on Sunday, Nov. 18, at Buckingham Browne & Nichols' Nicholas Athletic Center (Upper School…
Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday's Yogathon at Gillette Stadium showed me that the mental game is often harder to play than the physical game.
Yesterday I participated in the Yoga Reaches Out Yogathon, a daylong event to raise money for Children’s Hospital Boston and the Africa Yoga Project. It was an incredible day, with eight hundred people practicing yoga together. We tried different styles of yoga – Prana Flow, hip hop (with some great Beastie Boys songs), Baptiste – and from a purely physical perspective, it was a great workout. We flowed through poses for more than four hours and when I came home I was physically exhausted. My joints felt softer, my muscles felt like jelly, and I was ready for the nine-hour sleep that was to come. But more than physical fatigued, I felt wiped out mentally. Yogathon forced me out of my comfort zone, even before the event started. I am a …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Yoga Reaches Out will hold its second yogathon on May 6 at the Gillette Stadium field house.
On May 6, Wayland resident Sarah Gardner hopes to bring 1,000 people together for an all-day yogathon at Gillette Stadium. It’s hard to believe Gardner, now a Lululemon ambassador, resisted even trying yoga about nine years ago when a friend presented it as an option. ”At first, I was like, ‘No way, I have to pound the pavement,’” said Gardner, a longtime runner who earned a Master’s of Education in health and fitness and went right into personal training after graduate school. “It took me awhile to understand the benefits and joy that come from [yoga]. Now it is not what I do, but who I am. I love every aspect of it.” But going from personally understanding the benefits of yoga to hosting a yoga fundraiser for 1,000 people at Gillette …
Jeanne Brown
9:15 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Congratulations on your certification, Marcia--quite an accomplishment and a great studio. I'm so happy to read your comment because it shows how we can continue to grow and learn no matter our age or physical limitations. Best of luck. more ›