Become a leader while saving lives.


Watch a video about the children you will work with in Cambodia.  The video features Scott Neeson, a former Hollywood executive who changed his life through yoga.  He now directs the Cambodian Children's Fund.
OTM Youth Initiative

The intention of Off the Mat's ® Youth Initiative is to bring yoga and the principles of the Off the Mat ® initiative to young people.  We want to do this by bringing yoga programs to schools, community centers, juvenile facilities, and any place where young people come together.  We want to support our community to help further this intention in a few ways:
1-    Adopt a School: Raise awareness and money to bring yoga to a school near you.
2-    Adopt a Training: get local teachers trained to teach yoga to youth.  Raise money to bring a training to your area.
3-    Support a Teacher- bring resources to a teacher wanting to work with youth

Off the Mat ® will support you by helping you come up with fundraising and awareness building strategies.  We will connect you with a network of people with similar intentions and give you an opportunity to get support in an ongoing way.  We will also provide you with a directory of trainings and resources that bring yoga to young people.
So far we have  partnered with YogaEd. and Y.O.G.A for Youth and Street Yoga to raise awareness about the need for yoga in the schools and juvenile halls.  We look forward to connecting with other organizations who bring yoga to young people as well.  If you know of such organizations please email us so that we can add them to our resource list!
If you are interested in taking on the challenge of bringing yoga to youth in your area, email Hala at hala@offthematintotheworld.org  and we will get you started!  We will support you as best we can.
Check out this link for a short video about our work in schools already.

Cambodia Challenge 2008

Become a leader while saving lives.

Are you ready to make a commitment to truly making a difference in the world and becoming a leader?

Join Seane and Suzanne on an inner and outer journey.   We will travel to one of the poorest areas of the world, the garbage dumps of Cambodia where small children fend for their families by picking through the trash.

Become a leader with OTM while changing lives.  The trip is a yoga based leadership training course that includes a hands-on Seva experience in Cambodia.

Seane and Suzanne will lead you through two hours of daily yoga, then you will work with the children you see in the video.  In the evenings, you will do some process work and attend local cultural events.  We will also visit some of Cambodia's beautiful historic sites.

After the leadership training you have an opportunity to add one of the wonders of the world onto your journey: a trip to the historic Angkor Wat, where beautiful temples and sunrises await.

The Leadership Challenge

We are taking a small group of leaders and setting a significant fundraising goal for each person who comes on the trip.  Through the funds we raise, we will be able to leave Cambodia knowing we have saved many lives.  This fundraising effort helps us to know that you are a leader who has the ability to find support and manifest a dream.  You have all of 2008, until December 31st to achieve this goal, and we will provide training materials and phone support.

The Journey Dates

February 20 - March 5, 2009*
*Add on trip to Angkor Wat available from March 5 for an extra fee.

Join us.  Change your life while saving others. 

Click here to sign an intention form to join the journey.

Click here to view more information about the Bare Witness journey.

Click here to read Seane's personal story from her trip to Cambodia in August 2007.

Click the button below to make an online donation to one of our various projects or to Off the Mat in general.

DonateNow

Cambodian Children's Fund
Using education, training, healthcare and community work to break generational cycles of poverty and abuse.

Founded in 2003 by Scott Neeson, The Cambodian Children's Fund is dedicated to helping Cambodia's poorest, most undereducated and most vulnerable children. 

Our program offers protection, comprehensive healthcare, education and vocational training to over 260 children of whom 150 are full-time residents in our facilities. The majority of our children come from Steung Meanchey, Phnom Penh's notorious garbage dump, where they work picking through garbage for recyclable items to sell. With no schooling, no healthcare and no access to basic public services, these children live in appalling living conditions and have little hope of escaping a life of destitution.

For more information on CCF, please click here to visit their website.