UNCG News - September 26,2022
Using Yoga to Empower Women and Create Community
“Yoga therapy is not just physical practice,” says Mona Flynn, third- year Ed.D. candidate in kinesiology. “People tend to equate yoga with posture, but there’s so much more it has to offer. I want yoga to be recognized for its worth, as both a restorative practice and a preventative one.”
Global Indian Stories - January 2022
Yoga helping refugees and immigrants to a better quality of life
“A few years back, Mona, started a program called “Yoga Therapy for Immigrant and Refugee Women”. Having been an immigrant herself who moved to the U.S. as a child, she began this community seva (selfless service) as a desire to help the Syrian refugees in their heightened time of crisis.”
Yoga Journal - Sept/Oct 2021
“SIX YEARS AGO a local nonprofit in Greensboro, North Carolina, called yoga teacher and exercise physiologist Mona Flynn out the blue. The city, which had become something of a hub for international refugees, had started to welcome
a large population of people from Syria. Since Flynn—who works with vulnerable, disabled, and compromised patients— was Syrian and Arab American, the organization thought she might meet the families and help them feel welcome.”
2020 IAYT Seva Award
The 2020 IAYT Seva Award included an additional recognition by Give Back Yoga Foundation, with a Mats Grant of 25 donated mats for program participants. This gift extends traditional yoga in how the lessons of group yoga practice support and inform each yogi’s home practice, contributing to health and wellness self-advocacy.
