Financial Assistance
Some financial assistance may be available for some of our classes and programs including our Forest Stays and signature Vanvas program if you are genuinely unable to afford the cost. This is offered on a first-come, first serve basis, and is generally limited to one award per person per year.
We cannot guarantee that every request for assistance will result in an award. However, we will endeavor to try to find a way to help you practice with us. A prerequisite to applying for our financial assistance is for you to register with us and complete any additional application, if any, indicating interest in applying for a scholarship.
For Black, Indigenous and People of Color who cannot afford SMYC’s fees, we are offering further reduced rates for certain programs, including our Retreats, Forest Stays and Vanvas program. BIPOC participants will have the opportunity to pay fees at a “you choose basis”, which means that you establish the rate that you are able to pay at or above $50 per night, thanks to generous donations that we hope to avail of to support such funding. This forms part of our broader mission to develop more leaders and teachers of color within our North American Equanimity Community.
To find out more, please contact us
Ways To Give and Sewa (Service)
We try to keep our fees as affordable for as many people as possible and hence revenues from this stream covers less than half of our expenses. This means that we have to relay also on the generosity of our community to balance our budget and to operate our programs in a sustainable way.
Here are various ways you can help SMYC to do this:
With your donation, you join a community directly engaged in alleviating suffering and bringing greater wisdom and compassion to the world.
Your generosity touches many more beings than just those that participate in our programs and we are grateful and humbled by its tremendous potential impact.
Your generosity, in our ever-widening circle of giving, is what makes it possible for SMYC to offer our programs, including ancient teachings of mediation, mindfulness, yoga nidra and yog. Our in-person, online and retreat program fees cover less than half the cost to sustain our programs. Contributions from donors like you—who have experienced the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, yog nidra, and yog in their own lives – make up the other half of what’s needed
Will you make a generous gift today so that the path to equanimity and self -realization is available for all who seek it now and in the future?
For more information, please call our Development Office
at 1-702-937-4815 or email contactsmyc11@gmail.com