I'm Brenda; Empowering People with Trauma Recovery Yoga

Hi, I'm Brenda Hershey, and I've been living and working in Iraq for the last 4 years.

I currently lead a nonprofit organization called TRY Global, TRY standing for Trauma Recovery Yoga. We train refugees, displaced people and host community members to become TRY instructors, mentor them, and place them in paid teaching positions in their communities! They learn to teach one of three classes: a full yoga class, a chair yoga class and a kids yoga class.

All of our training and content are translated into the local languages, our team is comprised of 95% locals and refugees and 98% female.

So much of our growth is attributed to generous donations and collaborations with other like-minded organizations and individudals, so I'm really happy to be a part of the World Pulse community, and see how I may show up to support others in the same sense!