Your practice matters.
Supporting World AIDS Day matters.
Children living with HIV matter.
Will you join WITHIN teacher Devon Pipers on December 1 as we #YogaToEnd World AIDS Day?
Devon will be teaching a Metta Meditation class on Thursday, December 1 at 12pm PST / 3pm EST. All class registration donations will benefit Tribe of Lambs #YogaToEnd fundraiser, which raises funds and awareness for children living with AIDS in India.
Devon Pipars
About the Teacher
Devon Pipars is a teacher and blogger for withinmeditation.com, who also works with companies via wellness workshops, meditation sessions, and mindful communication coaching. She is a featured voice for Hyperice’s meditation training device Core, as well as a senior instructor on the Core app (hellocore.com).
Meditation is Devon’s passion and purpose. A meditator since 2002, the practice has been deeply transformative for her. After devoting four years to the study and practice of meditation under the guidance of a master teacher in the Indian Himalayas, Devon’s sessions incorporate multiple traditions and techniques including mindfulness, breath work, mantra, gratitude practice & loving kindness.
Devon is masterful at translating all she’s learned into simple terms, making her classes appropriate for first-time meditators as well as experts. No matter what your experience level, her approach effectively reduces stress and promotes well-being.
About Tribe of Lambs
Tribe of Lambs works to send children living with HIV to quality schools which neither discriminate nor disclose their status to anyone. These children deserve a chance in life, and education is the first step forward.
This year 100% of donations will go to their future education project – paying school tuition and fees for their new partnership that launched in early 2022. The $5000cad they raise from this campaign will enable them to partner with a second home for HIV+ children in India - expanding their reach and impact for kids who have the right and need to a quality education.
Government schools are regularly denying admission or segregating HIV positive children in the classroom, reinforcing the already rampant fear and stigma surrounding the disease. Tribe of Lambs is joining yoga spaces, communities and classes to make a stand with these kids while ensuring they have bright futures ahead, and an education without discrimination.
About World AIDS Day
Each year on December 1st, UNAIDS highlights a crucial point to eradicating HIV/AIDS and the associated inequalities, stigmas and issues which are a barrier to the end of the epidemic.
"This World AIDS Day, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.
Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030, as well as a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and a spiralling social and economic crisis.
Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported, HIV still threatens the world. Today, the world is off track from delivering on the shared commitment to end AIDS by 2030 not because of a lack of knowledge or tools to beat AIDS, but because of structural inequalities that obstruct proven solutions to HIV prevention and treatment."