Yoga Arts Garden Initiative
Community Arts • Stewardship • Creative Placemaking
Community Arts • Stewardship • Creative Placemaking
Phase 1 restoration bed clean up at yagi garden at 2713 w richardson pl. Milwaukee, WI. with volunteers from food not bombs
In June 2026, community volunteers gathered at the Yoga Arts Garden Initiative site to begin restoration, stewardship, and creative placemaking activities. The site is being developed as an outdoor classroom where movement, storytelling, ecological stewardship, cultural learning, and community arts programming can intersect.
An Extension of the Yoga For Life Program
The Yoga Arts Garden Initiative is a place-based program developed by Senses Yoga School and rooted in the principles of Yoga For Life—our community wellness and leadership initiative supporting long-term resilience, care, and sustainable action.
While Yoga For Life focuses on nervous system regulation, embodiment, and leadership sustainability, the Yoga Arts Garden Initiative offers participants a way to apply those practices directly within their communities through land stewardship, creative engagement, and ecological care.
Through gentle movement, breathwork, meditation, sound, creative arts, and hands-on garden work, participants reconnect with the land, their bodies, and one another—cultivating both inner and outer resilience.
HELP STEWARD THE YAGI GARDEN
Visited the garden? Your observations can help us care for this living community space.
Use our Garden Stewardship & Observation Log to tell us what you noticed, watered, planted, harvested, or cared for. You can also upload a photo of a plant, insect, soil condition, or anything else you don't recognize.
No gardening experience is required. Observation is stewardship.
The Yoga Arts Garden Initiative is offered in partnership with Community gardens, cultural spaces, and community organizations, and may be hosted as a pilot series, seasonal program, or ongoing weekly class.