Rikers Island Meditation

ShareLove.Fund delivered this meditation to the women at Rikers Island including their pregnancy ward. These women are under tremendous stress awaiting trial as they are unable to have any in-person visitation with their children due to Covid.

Prenatal Teenager Program

ShareLove.Fund seeks to support pregnant teenager program participants in New York through a hands-on free Yoga Alliance approved teacher training program so that pregnant teenagers may graduate from high school with an accredited yoga teaching certificate and a job from either ShareLove.Fund or an affiliated yoga studio.

In addition, we also post prenatal and postnatal yoga information on our YouTube channel with the hope that pregnant teenagers can find us and know that they are not alone, we care, and it is OK to just take it one breath at a time. Finally, as part of our women’s empowerment endeavor, we seek to end the blame game and shame imposed on pregnant girls when every teenage pregnancy is a direct result of a partner (“it takes two to tango”) and more poignantly, it is most strongly correlated with family structure, education, socio-economics, and race.

The Washington Post published that Black and Hispanic women reported having increased trouble in obtaining contraception. The World Health Organization published that the leading cause of death of teenagers 15-19 years old globally is complications relating to pregnancy. In short, we are all members of a global community, and we are all responsible for the current state of affairs.

Our symbol is the lotus flower. The lotus flower is considered one of the most beautiful flowers and it grows out of the mud. Teenagers, please remember that if you feel that you are in the mud right now, it is OK, you are teeming with life and just because you are in the mud today, does not mean that you cannot be a blooming flower tomorrow. They say, the further you fall, the higher you will fly. Life is a journey, think positive, it will be ok.