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Sunday 05/04/2025 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
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$0.00 Yoga reaches out
Join Betty and Special Musical Guest Girish on the SPA yoga team with Yoga Reaches out to help raise money for Boston Children's Hospital. This is an opportunity to put our Yoga practice of compassion in action through raising money to provide more help and hope for children receiving care at Boston Children's Hospital. The day is filled with yoga asana, caring energy and community.
Please officially register here.
Step 1: Get excited, this is an amazing, joy-filled, loving event to be a part of!
Step 2: Read this post fully to understand the fundraising requirements. By joining Betty's team you need to pay $25 to register and then raise $300.
Step 3: Once you understand all the details, please officially register for Betty's Team here with Yoga Reaches Out. Registration closes at 12 pm on Thursday, May 1, or once capacity has been reached. You don’t have to be a yoga expert — all skill levels are welcome!
Step 4: Register here on StilStudio.com to let us know you have signed up for Betty's Team on Yoga Reaches Out's website.
This year Betty will be teaching a special "Miracle Maker" class at annual day of practice through the Yoga Reaches out event on May 4th. She will be teaching Spa Yoga accompanied with live music from Girish. Any participants who raises $1,250 or more will be eligible to attend Betty's class. If you are on her team and do not raise the $1,250 you will have access to other classes at the event.
Location: The TRACK at New Balance: 91 Guest Street, Boston, MA 02135
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What is Yoga Reaches Out?
This annual day of practice and celebration brings together yoga practitioners to raise funds to bring lifesaving answers to patients at Boston Children's Hospital. Your support fuels vital care, support services and research breakthroughs to help sick kids and their families heal and thrive. Yoga Reaches Out was born out of Sarah Gardner's journey of finding healing and recovery for her very sick child, learn more here.
What is the event Like?
Yoga Reaches Out consists of two main yoga sessions. In between sessions, participants can grab a snack, shop our marketplace vendors, visit our photo area, and more. Participants are encouraged to go at their own pace and rest at any time.
- 8:00 am: Doors Open
- 9:00 am: Session I
- 10:30 am: Mid-morning break
- 11:15 am: Session II
- 1:00 pm: Session III*
- 2:00 pm: Event concludes
*Available to Miracle Makers who raise $1,250 or above. **Registration closes at 12 pm on Thursday, May 1, or once capacity has been reached. You don’t have to be a yoga expert—all skill levels are welcome!**
Fundraising Requirement
Please note that per requirements from Yoga Reaches out, by signing up on Betty's team you are signing up as a participant for $25 dollars and then agreeing to raise an additional $300. Yoga Reaches Out requires that you raise this money, and if you do not raise it you are expected to donate it yourself. The organization is passionate about reaching the goal they set to support the children at the hospital and will charge the card you have on file with them for the amount that remains to be raised if $300 has not been reached by May 14th. Everyone on a team is encouraged to raise the minimum of $300 dollars.
To Take Betty's Class
Betty will be teaching at one of the special "Miracle Maker" events at Yoga Reaches out that is only accessible to top fundraisers. Participants need to raise $1,250 to take Betty's class. If you are on Betty's team and raise under $1,250 then you can participate in most of the events on May 4th but you won't have access to the "Miracle Maker" class that she will be teaching.
QUICK LINKS: Event Homepage | Yoga FAQs | Miracle Makers
If you have additional questions, please visit Yoga Reaches Out's FAQs or contact them at yoga@chtrust.org or 617-919-6843.
Betty Riaz
Since 2009, Betty has connected and shared the teachings of healing and spiritual practices of the Tibetan Yogic Tradition. Her mission is to help others through her work at Stil Studio, teaching yoga and mindfulness, healing bodywork and leading global retreats. She is co-owner of Stil Studio & Terma Goods, both located in Historic Downtown Dedham. She is eternally grateful to her teachers from the Tibetan Vajrayana practices; Khenpo Lama Migmar Tsetsen, Kevan Gale, Dr. Eric Rosenbush and Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.
Girish Cudrun
Girish is an eclectic artist with roots in jazz, world, and sacred music. His musical talents find expression in a wide array of instruments – including tablas, world percussion, guitar, harmonium, and voice.
For as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. When he was eight years old, his parents gave him a little red snare drum as a bargaining tool to stop him from banging on everything else in the house.
Drumming has always been instinctual to Girish, flowing freely from his fingers and knowing no musical bounds. In his teens, he started experimenting with pop, rock, jazz and orchestral music. His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. "During improvisational sessions," he recalls, "there were these unexplainable moments of synchronicity and intuition that felt like magic."
These moments came just as Girish was feeling pulled toward a sacred life. A college philosophy class inspired him to explore spirituality through Kundalini yoga, meditation, and the study of Eastern scriptures. By the time of his college graduation, Girish was so deep into these practices that he decided to move into an ashram in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Thus began an unexpected journey-a seeming detour that inadvertently nourished his musical artistry.
