The Away Team – Participate by Sitting at Home
If you live outside of New York City and want to support our efforts to fund mindfulness and meditation education for teens in Brooklyn, you can still participate by sitting meditation at home! Nothing...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Sit-a-thon Poster
Click here to see and download the Brooklyn Sit-a-thon Poster! Enjoy!
View ArticleFirst prize is an iPad 2!
We thought you should know that first prize for raising the most funds during the Sit-a-thon is an iPad 2! So not only are you going to be supporting the wonderful cause of teen mindfulness and...
View ArticleHigh School Groups Back from Break!
Everyone is happy that the regents are over and things are settling down for the moment. The high school-based meditation groups, which took a brief break for the month of January, are starting back up...
View ArticleErasmus High School Meditation Group!
Today’s group at Erasmus high school was fantastic. There was a lot of enthusiastic engagement. We had about twenty students take part in over an hour of meditation and discussion, many of whom have...
View ArticleAwake Youth Students get ready for the Sit-a-thon!
Allen, Ian, Lauren and Lamaysha are just four of Awake Youth Project students who will be participating in the Brooklyn Sit-a-thon and doing their part to raise funds to support ongoing teen meditation...
View ArticleNew York Times Article on Awake Youth Project
A couple of the Awake Youth Project students are featured here in a New York Times article entitled, “Zen for High Schoolers: ‘Notice the anxiety. Notice the Fear’.” A quote from La-Keeyatta Steward,...
View ArticleEl Diario writes up Awake Youth Project!
For the Spanish readers among our students and supporters, please check out the article, “La pràctica del Zen ayuda a adolescentes,” by Silvina Sterin Pensel. Silvina spent the day with our Awake Youth...
View ArticleTrailer for Tricycle Video on Awake Youth Project
Check out the new page and trailer from Tricycle Magazine and, if you can, please give to the Brooklyn Sit-a-thon! Sneak Preview from Tricycle on Vimeo.
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