A deeply rooted desire to bring the healing tools of yoga to refugees & genocide survivors was born through Molly’s experience of losing her closest friend to the violence in the Middle East. Molly has spent the past the past eight years weaving together her passions for yoga, travel and service in the heart of the humanitarian sector while establishing sustainable projects in Greece, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. 

As a trauma-informed yoga teacher and teacher trainer, Molly believes yoga is an effective way to support the well-being of refugee communities, and can help to foster dignity, compassion and a sense of a shared humanity.

Some of Molly’s humanitarian project highlights include co-founding a Community Center in Northern Greece for Yazidi genocide survivors, kickstarting a sustainable goat program for Syrian bedouins living along the Jordanian border, bringing solar lights to Yazidi genocide survivors living without stable electricity in Iraq and supporting refugees arriving on the Greek shores on rubber dinghies.

Molly is now based in Arizona while she directs the Yoga Mandala Project, a grassroots initiative supporting the well-being of those impacted by war, violence and displacement as well as service providers working in these communities through trauma-informed training, the co-creation of sustainable yoga programs, and crisis response projects.

We cultivate a community of care among refugees and those serving them around the world with tools to support mental-health through yoga, mindfulness and other embodied modalities such as tapping (EFT), TRE and creative expression.

Molly also curates nature immersions and luxury glamping on wheels across Northern Arizona through Mystic Arizona Escapes. Her intention is to provide comfortable experiences in nature from solitude retreats to supported family camping trips to luxury festival accommodation.

www.yogamandalaproject.org