Current yoga Classes

Episcopal Place Apartments (private)

New Pilgrim Towers Apartments (private)

previous yoga Class partners

Birmingham Public Library

Living Sober Yoga

The Episcopal Place

Ruffner Mountain Community Class

The Ronald McDonald House

The Dannon Project

Eureka Summer Girls Science Camp (UAB)

Aletha House

Birmingham AIDS Outreach

GLOBAL MALA

For 12 years (until 2020) Sweet Om Alabama brought the yoga community together at the Global Mala for Peace Project. This annual event was held at Vulcan Park & Museum, where hundreds of participants gather to be led through 108 sun salutations by local teachers against the backdrop of the city skyline. Global Mala’s purpose is to unite yoga communities from every continent, school, and approach to form a “mala around the earth”. The mala, a garland constructed of 108 beads that is used during meditation, signifies the power a group can harness when individual intentions unite for the same cause.

Renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea founded the Global Mala Project in 2007 with the intention of bringing together people, yoga, peace, and social change. A mala is a sacred garland of 108 prayer beads, and Global Mala can be thought of as a moving meditation or prayer done 108 times with a focus on harmony and bringing awareness to social issues, from grassroots to the globe.
Sun Salutations are one of the most recognizable yoga sequences, and call upon the energy of the sun and the symbol of a circle to energize our physical, mental and emotional well-being as individuals and as members of this greater world.

Sweet Om Alabama united Alabamians around yoga and giving back to the community, was born from Birmingham’s first Global Mala in 2007. Since Sweet Om Alabama’s inception, it has guided the event and its fund raising efforts. Today, there are more than 800 Global Mala events in more than 50 countries around the world.

TEACHER training

Sweet Om Alabama is committed to increasing our Outreach Teachers’ knowledge base on various methods of applying yoga to help to heal specific populations. We offer bi-annual continuous learning training workshops specializing in teaching yoga to our current and potential Outreach partner organizations.