Ananda Yoga to Host Expedition Denali Fundraiser

LANDER, WY—Ananda Yoga Lander will host an evening of restorative yoga to benefit the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) project Expedition Denali.

On Thursday, May 2, at 6 p.m., NOLS Diversity and Inclusion Manager Aparna Rajagopal-Durbin will introduce guests at the Ananda Yoga Lander studio at 145 N. Third Street to Expedition Denali, the first African American expedition to attempt to summit Denali in an effort to inspire youth of color to discover the outdoors and its importance to the future.

This event will fundraise specifically for a documentary about the team and their climb which will help spread the word in a powerful way about the importance of time spent outdoors and of exposing all people to that experience. Distill Productions has launched a campaign on Kickstarter to make this documentary possible, and computers will be available for local supporters to give what they can on Thursday night.

Immediately following the introduction, Ananda Yoga owner Sylvia Carl will lead guests in a free hour of restorative yoga.

About NOLS

Founded in 1965 by legendary mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, NOLS is the leader in wilderness education, providing awe-inspiring, transformative experiences to 17,000 students each year. These students, ages 14 to over 80, learn in the wildest and most remote classrooms worldwide—from the Amazon rain forest, to rugged peaks in the Himalaya, to Alaskan glaciers and Arctic tundra. Graduates are active leaders with lifelong environmental ethics and outdoor skills. NOLS also offers customized courses through NOLS Professional Training, and the NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute is the leading teacher of wilderness medicine worldwide. For more information, call (800) 710-NOLS (6657) or visit www.nols.edu.

About Ananda Yoga Lander

Ananda is the Sanskrit word for bliss. It is a blissful, peaceful happiness. We, at Ananda Yoga Lander, strive to bring competent yoga instruction, compassion, and awareness to our community to the best of our abilities in a form true to each of our own natures in the hope of bringing further awareness to our own inner bliss that we each already possess.