While embracing New York City’s fast-paced yoga culture, Jordan Ashley (MA Human Rights and PhD candidate) recognized a need for a more service-based practice; a need for experiences which give perspective to the self through selflessness.

Drawing on her experience of travel and of being a full-time yoga teacher, she created Souljourn Yoga Foundation in 2016 as an avenue for the practitioner who wants more than a yoga retreat. She anchored it in the desire to expand equal education across the globe.

Feeling extremely blessed to be given the opportunity for education and to have a voice in society, she felt it was imperative to raise both awareness and funds for young women who are denied such essential human rights.

Jordan is an activist, writer, yoga teacher, and Tedx speaker whose work has been featured by Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire UK, and more. 

While Souljourn Yoga Foundation is a US 501(c)3 non-profit that creates transformational yoga retreats and teacher training programs to raise awareness and funds for young women’s education around the world. Our name is inspired by seva, the Sanskrit word for and yogic principle of selfless service (the soul), sojourn, which captures the essence of being in a place and time, and yoga, which is union, balance, and connection.