Ourmala

Action acessible to all including newly arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: Emily Brett

Status of the project owner:  National NGO

Area of work of the project owner: Sport / Social integration / Health / Gender equality

Website of Ourmala

PROJECT

Geographic scope of project: Regional

Project objective: Promote social diversity / Develop language skills / Practice a physical activity for physical/mental health / Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: Yoga

Partnership / supports: Grants

Project duration: --

Project status: Underway

Supervising staff: Professionals / Volunteers

Summary of the project:

Ourmala provides trauma informed yoga classes for refugees, people seeking asylum and survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We work with a variety of partner organisations to offer yoga classes in 6 locations around London, with more planned for 2018.

Yoga improves physical and mental health, soothes anxiety, ameliorates depression and physical pain, increases the ability to sleep through the night and build self-esteem and confidence. Ourmala exists to provide this therapeutic method to those who need it most.

Ourmala creates a community by including half an hour of social time in most of our classes, where clients can have a cup of tea and a chat with fellow students in their class.

TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: Any

Type of migration: Refugee / Asylum seeker

Target beneficiary: Families / Men only / Women only / Teenager-Young people

Target age group: 11 - more than 60