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Discover the power of community & connection with us.
We started out ‘just’ doing yoga 20 years ago, but now we do so much more for our community.
We practice and encourage union, unity and connection, on and off the mat, right here at home.
Did you know that Sol is an integrated s-corp & non-profit? We offer a full menu of fee-for-service & donation based services simultaneously. When our s-corp has profits, it goes right back into the non-profit. It’s a positive feedback system; you get out of it what you put into it. We are not so much about hand-outs or ‘toxic’ charity, rather, inviting engagement in the slow process of building sustainable health and wealth - individually and as a community. We are an enterprise of passion and generosity offering support in down-to-earth, interactive ways right here in our local and hyper-local community.
Sol (Connection) Center is the heart of a thriving community that offers healing, connection and recovery support to any human striving toward better living. We are a non profit entity partnering with Sol Yoga Studio & Better Living Housing to offer intentional healing community.
Community Care Campaign is Underway. Please consider making a contribution to help us raise $200,000 to continue our efforts
Community Care Campaign is Underway. Please consider making a contribution to help us raise $200,000 to continue our efforts
Here’s how we care:
First, no one is turned away.
We have always been committed to ensuring there is no barrier to entry. Our community, yoga practice and education are available to anyone, everyday. To that end, these are some of the ways we are accessible.
Open 365 with free events every single day in studio
Free weekly classes for the general public Frederick community (over 2,000 since 2005)
Scholarships (over $400,000 worth) for everything we do
We barter time and skills too (over 1,000 volunteers have been trained!)
Second, we are actively combating the devastating global impacts of isolation - the epidemic of our time - that harms both individual and societal health and well-being. Read More
Isolation slowly causes death - and is a profound component of all types of physical, mental and emotional suffering. Sustainable recovery from the impacts of isolation is a subtle process that takes immense time and patience. In direct response to Covid-19 & the disconnection of the digital age, Sol Community is weaving people back together on a daily basis.
Individually – self care, mind-body-soul healing from all sorts of suffering/illness. We’ve served over 200,000 people since 2005.
Inter-personally – healing is scientifically proven to happen in relationship, when we gather as 2 or 20, we can be seen and see each other. We have offered over 36,500 healing gatherings since 2005 and trained over 400 teachers.
Healing Communities – communities need safe spaces for the work required to be in healthy relationship. We offer an open place of refuge 365/yr, over 7,000 days since 2005.
Coming Home - we often serve those going through big life transitions or emerging from crisis in their lives.
When healing from trauma, relocation, loss, divorce, grief, injury, mental & physical disease, homelessness, loss of sense of self, people often find ‘home,’ at Sol while they re-orient. We provide both acute and long term support, education, resources, connection and care during the experience of groundlessness and disorientation. This is deep work that takes time, tenderness and ongoing communal support.
A few of the ways we have extended our hand to those that are in a process of rising, healing or recovering:
Free or discounted memberships for people in transition or emerging from crisis.
Our 6-10 month yoga teacher training programs carry people through difficult life transitions - offering self=study, healing, mentorship plus community connections. Over $350,000 in scholarships have been distributed for these programs.
We offer family style affordable co-housing for people in transition or in a healing process.
Residence/room rental is all inclusive and includes direct access to unlimited healing services & community. You can share a room for $775/month or have your own for $1000/mo. (cost to us is $1041/mo per bed)
Since 2022, we have housed 39 residents in 3 properties. 71% of residents have progressed in their wellness goals.
Residents have discounted access to transformational process-oriented yoga teacher training as part of their housing.
For those in more acute crisis, or chronically under-resourced, we also offer respite.
Our physical proximity to an epicenter of homelessness, social services for mentally ill and substance abuse invites us be a good neighbors with boots on the ground, right here, right now.
Open Sunday night community meal for 15-25 people $150/week, $7800/year, $23,400 total
7 bed community vegetable and herb garden & community backyard
Provide free, specialized programing for over 1500 men & women in all
forms of addiction recovery processes: Cost $23,920 since 2022
Provide mindfulness, yoga & wellness education to approx 7200 men &
women at inpatient rehabilitation centers (primarily SUD) since 2023
Diversionary respite services care and peer support for anonymous unhoused in the hyper-local area (unknown cost)
Sol offers yoga on the mat plus safe spaces for all, a place to call home, meaningful conversation, authentic connection, warm hugs, care, a meal, compassion & community. We are on the ground, in real time, recovering our sense of connection and restoring humanity to wholeness. Naturally, we offer equitable, diverse and inclusive community. There are no barriers to entry for anyone with a desire to reduce suffering and move toward a better way of living.
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You need one because you are human. —Jane Howard, Families”
To be able to continue to offer this kind of care and support, we are aiming to fundraise $200,000 together in 2025.
Donations in any amount are welcome, but here are some sample amounts needed:
$3,000 - Provides a full scholarship for 1 person to partake in life changing yoga teacher training. Or partial scholarship for 6 people.
$2,082- provides scholarship for two months transitional housing & all access to healing community
$630- keeps our doors open for 1 day
$240 provides 1 yoga teacher for 1 month of free yoga to a non profit or community organized wellness effort - ex. children in need, recovery services, mental health programs or incarcerated individuals.
$180 - provides subsidy for 1 free sunday night community meal for 15-25 people
$125 - provides 1 night shelter, meal & shower for hyper local unhoused
$20 - ticket for one event/class
Open 365 Days per year with at least 5 events per day, plus residential options, our door is open. Come on in anytime.
Open 365 Days per year with at least 5 events per day, plus residential options, our door is open. Come on in anytime.
Sol Center Offerings:
daily / Weekly Gatherings
PARTNERING WITH SOL YOGA FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF DAILY YOGA CLASSES - To sign up, go to MindBody Online - Sol Yoga, or email us at info@solyoga.org.
For the events listed below, there is no need to sign up, just drop-in! Donations accepted in person. Unless you see an *, all events are held at 256 West Patrick St, Frederick, MD
Daily 530-730am - Open Studio (check solyoga.org for details)
Monday’s 5:30pm Emotional Sobriety/Flexibility
Tuesday’s 9-10:15am Heal & Recover with Meditation & Yoga* (located in garage studio) - begins again Sept 23
Tuesday’s 330-630pm (resumes Oct 7). Community -Acupuncture, please sign up here ahead of time
Wednesdays 5:30pm - Heal & Recover with Meditation & Yoga
Wednesdays 7:30pm - Meditation & Discussion
Thursday’s 7pm - Men’s 12 Step Recovery Group (see aa.org for details)
Friday’s 7:30am - CODA (Co-dependents Anonymous) 12 Step Recovery Group
Saturday’s 4:30pm - Brave / Creative Space
Sunday’s - Financial Sobriety/Freedom
Sundays 5-7pm - Community Dinner & ‘Home Groups’ - Text for location
BY DONATION YOGA CLASSES IN THE FREDERICK COMMUNITY
Local library (Frederick - Wednesday 11am & Walkersville - see schedule)
Xa Loi Meditation Temple (Saturday 8am)
Baker Park @ Bell Tower (Friday 6:30pm)
Carroll Creek Ampitheater (Thursday 7am)
HOUSING
Residential co-housing is available to members of our community. We have about 18 beds available. but vacancy varies. If you are interested, we ask that you attend a variety (at least 10) of the events above and get to know us in person. If you are still interested, ask how to schedule and interview. For further information, please text 301.788.5154.
Yoga is Recovery, Recovery is Yoga. Together we Awaken.
The word yoga means ‘to join, ‘unite', or connect what is separate. To ‘recover’ from dis-ease or trauma is to re-cover to a ‘normal’ state of health, mind & strength. At Sol Connection Center, we believe moving in and out of states of ease & dis-ease, or connection & disconnection is normal and we can learn to navigate those physical, mental & emotional health journeys without shame. All pathology has a source and a solution. Isolation is a cause, and connection is at the heart of solution.
TRAUMA, LOSS & unfelt greif
Acute, chronic or ongoing, trauma is not what happened to us, it is the wound that results and residual impacts. Often the pain of these wounds can cause us to protect, isolate, ‘cope’ and live from a dysregulated state of body or mind all too long before we become unwell enough for it to show or for us to ask for help. Depending on how long it has gone on, we may not even realize how dis-connected from our true essence and vitality we’ve become. Just surviving one day at a time is a hallmark of this time. Grasping for easy solutions and faux connection has us scrambling for peace of mind, a healthy body and robust lives filled with contentment & high vibration emotions such as love, gratitude & joy.
attachment & addiction
We understand that to be human is to suffer. No one is truly free of addiction, whatever form of attachment it may present itself. Whether we become attached to people, food, exercise, alcohol, drugs (prescription or illicit), technology, money, we all have the opportunity to allow healthy coping mechanisms to slip into “bad habits.” When we continue to overuse these coping methods, even when it negatively effects our wellbeing, our 'bad habit' has transformed to an 'addiction'. At Sol Center, we have all felt the need to recover a healthier balance. Everyone has their own reasons for getting here, it might be a rough life, a major loss, chronic stress, low self esteem, physical challenges, poor mental health, etc…, at Sol Center, we believe that the root of all these problems is dis-connection.
Modern day science and wisdom traditions show us that the only way out, is through.
There is more than one WAY to recoverY
Learning about and recovering from trauma, loss, unhealthy attachment and addiction comes when we are able to regain our inherent and optimal mental, physical and emotional health. At Sol Center, we are expert teachers, healers, and recovery mentors from a variety of different backgrounds. From a blend of yoga and meditation classes, other healing modalities and the 12 Steps of Recovery®, you can join us for structured support in the form of classes, residential co-housing, mentorship and support groups, Other fun community events include hikes, bowling, ice skating and even open-mic nights!