Nøsen Yoga og Fjellhotell collaborates with, and supports, several charitable projects. Below you can read more about some of the projects:
More info about Gangster Yoga: http://www.gangsteryoga.no/
If you wish, it is possible to donate money to this project. 100% of the donation goes directly to Back in The Ring.
GANGSTER YOGA
Gangster Yoga is a non-profit organization that is subordinate to the foundation “Yoga for Life”. Gangster Yoga's mission and long-term vision is to work with preventive measures to help young people at risk and give former prisoners an opportunity to participate in this process.
Gangster Yoga emphasizes what it means to be human and strives to help people get in touch with their deepest selves. Gangster Yoga teaches people how to breathe through challenges, how to feel pain and discomfort, and how to gradually build greater clarity of mind, a clarity of mind that can be stable and long-lasting.
On a more practical level, Gangster Yoga offers yoga classes to inmates across the country, to help them stay off the criminal path.
Alexander Medin, the owner of Nøsen Yoga Retreat Center, is one of the founders of the Gangster Yoga Project in Norway, and teaches at several prisons and jails across the country.
Back in the ring
BITR is a project that was launched in 2013 as a trial within the Gangster Yoga Initiative. The project is an offer to anyone who, after experiencing substance abuse problems, wants to make a comeback to life.
The driving force behind BITR has been to provide help for self-help. The project uses yoga, breathing and meditation techniques to help people develop greater self-awareness. This helps to cleanse and strengthen the body and helps to develop clarity of mind.
The project focuses on social work, as a means of helping addicts and former addicts to come out of the “bubble” and experience feelings of joy and satisfaction as a result of giving back to society and being of help to others.
As an example of the initiatives supported by BITR, a group from Back in The Ring traveled to India in the spring of 2017 to build toilets for women in Mumbai.
Mer info om Back in The Ring: http://backinthering.no/
Several Indian newspapers wrote about the project. Here you can read what they wrote:
"Norwegian volunteers build public toilet for women near Mumbai Central station", by Hindustantimes.com
"In Mumbai, ex-convicts and drug addicts from Norway build toilet for women", by "The Times of India"
"Ex-Convicts And Former Drug Addicts From Norway Come Together To Construct Toilets For Women in Mumbai", by "Indiatimes"
If you wish, it is possible to donate money to this project. 100% of the donation goes directly to the Back in The Ring project.