Our Impact

The OMPowerment Project inaugural annual report aims to outline the charitable purpose of this organisation, set out all the activities carried out during calendar year November 2018 to November 2019, and collate and report the impact of the seven trainings held in six different countries over this time period. Due to the global pandemic, all programming planned for 2020 was postponed. Since then we have focused inward, connected with local organisations in London and Los Angeles, and up levelled our training offerings. We intend to begin our signature programming in the second half of 2022.

All programming is offered in alignment with The OMPowerment Project’s mission, which is to make the healing benefits of yoga accessible in a sustainable way to communities who would otherwise be reliant on the availability of yoga teachers participate in the practice.

Between 2017 and 2019, capacity building trainings took place across three different continents with participants from more than two dozen ethnicities, demonstrating the reach of our programming and the demand for yoga in diverse locations.

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Given the complexity of our initial evaluation questionnaires and the density of language required to have a complete understanding of the statements, it is difficult to accurately assess the quantitative impact of our programming. Instead, the qualitative focus groups provide a more detailed picture of the experience of participants who derive multiple benefits from the learning the self-regulatory tools of yoga.

The reported benefits of OMPowerment’s programming included improved physical and mental health, and the ability to better manage trauma. The most lasting benefit is intended to be the leadership skills of the program. Yoga is, at its root, a self-practice; therefore, it is important to empower participants with the ability to lead themselves (and by extension members of the communities) in order to ensure the practice is sustainably shared. Further research over time, which was not possible in this report, must be undertaken to gauge the long-term success of the program.