Become a leader while saving lives.


Manduka and Off the Mat Into the World® have partnered to help SEVA challenge participants raise money for their campaigns. Manduka will donate 10% of referred sales in honor of SEVA Challenge participants who promote the program by distributing Manduka SEVA & SAVE discount cards. These cards will also entitle the recipients to 5% off the retail price of all purchases on Manduka.com.

If you are interested in participating in the Manduka SEVA & SAVE program to raise money for Africa, please find the initiation process detailed below. The average purchase on Manduka.com is around $100 so 50 purchases could result in approximately $500 towards your campaign.:

Step 1: Email Sierra Jost at Sierra@manduka.com with ‘SEVA & SAVE’ in the subject line, and provide your name, phone number and mailing address.

Step 2: Manduka will send you 50 SEVA & SAVE promotional cards that will include a discount code to deduct 5% from any purchase on manduka.com, and a unique referral code to give 10% of the sale to Off the Mat Into the World® towards your fundraising campaign.

Step 3: Distribute the cards to those that may want to support your efforts to raise money for Off the Mat Into the World® and save on Manduka high performance eco-responsible yoga gear.

Step 4: Every 60 days, Manduka will issue a check to Off the Mat Into the World®  for 10% of the total referred sales, as well as a report detailing each of the amounts donated in honor of each SEVA Challenge participant.

Step 5: If you run out of cards, just email Sierra@manduka.com and request more!






Seva Challenge 2009

Bare Witness: African Humanitarian Tour
in partnership with Ambassadors for Children

The war in Northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord's Resistance Army and the government of Uganda have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians displaced. Millions of children have been orphaned by AIDS and thousands of women die annually in childbirth. An entire generation has never known peace...

OTM is committed to continuing our work to support cultures and communities where basic human needs are at risk and to offering our hearts, hands and resources in joyful and practical service.


We will be working with the following organizations:


Shanti Uganda
Building Tomorrow
Youth AIDS

The Seva Challenge asks participants to raise significant funds in support of a select few organizations working to eradicate the tremendous financial and health crises that exist in Africa, and creating sustainable solutions for communities in crisis. This effort helps participants know that they are leaders who have the ability to find, support and manifest a dream. We then take a small group of leaders and push them to expand their self-confidence and capabilities by exposing them to unique physical and spiritual challenges. We will leave Africa knowing we have been in deep service and have left a powerful legacy. Participants will have until November 15, 2009, to reach the fundraising goal, and we will provide extensive training materials and phone support.

Through the transformative practice of daily yoga, extensive hands-on experience and leadership training, we will create a powerful container in which to learn, discover and become effective agents for change. The integration of practical and spiritual tools is an important part of the journey.

Each day will start with two hours of yoga followed by hands-on work building an eco birthing center with a sustainable farm, working with local villagers building schools, immersing ourselves in local culture, learning about the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in Africa and playing with children at local orphanages.

Join Seane and Suzanne on an inner and outer journey. Take on our seva fundraising challenge and join us on a journey of transformation and deep service. Be a part of the emerging movement of sacred activism, touch a soul and change a life… perhaps your own.

Click HERE to read specific information about the organizations we have partnered with, the projects we will be taking part in and a breakdown of where your money will be going.

The Journey Dates

February 5 - February 19, 2010*

* We will take multiple trips to Uganda if more than twenty people reach the goal.  The first group of twenty will travel to Uganda, February 7-19th. The second trip will take place immediately after the first trip ends. If there is a need for a third trip, we will journey back to Africa at some point in the fall. The groups will be determined by the order the money is received.

Join us.  Change your life while saving others.


Click here
to sign an intention form to join the journey.
We are accepting applications now.

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.

Go to Yoga Journal to read stories of our amazing Seva Challenge 2008: Cambodian Humanitarian Tour.


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