The Ignite Impact
25,000+ students trained • 15+ years of experience • Global faculty • 3X Award Winning
The work of justice takes a toll.
Presence / Presenté
is structured collective care
for the people doing this work.
Frontline organizations are experiencing a crisis.
75% report burnout
39% report moral injury
Staff aren't just stressed. They're experiencing grief, hopelessness and moral injury: the exhaustion of caring deeply inside systems that make it hard to do right or see a better future. Standard workplace programs weren't designed for this. This one is.
Presence / Presente
offers workshops for wellbeing rooted in yoga psychology & yoga therapy.
No experience, mats, or special clothes needed.
Receive hope and relief with Presence Based Collective Care.
A methodology of simple movement, breath, and guided reflection, alongside practices that help people feel less alone in what they're carrying.
Delivered by a trained Ignite practitioner.
Your space, in your language, for staff teams, community members, or both.
Practical enough for a conference room and deep enough to provide hope, motivation and truly shift something.
What your people leave with
Nervous system support
Simple tools
Reduced isolation
Collective practices
Truth Named and Held
No bypassing
Restored Agency
A learn-and-go practice
for staying grounded under ongoing stress that work in real conditions.
that help people feel seen and less alone the most underused intervention for frontline teams.
The harm your people are living, moral injury, grief, burnout, named directly. Because pretending it isn't there doesn't help.
something true, real, and theirs that can be returned to in the middle of a hard day.
What your organization gains
Grant ready language
Fundable, low cost & free
Staff retention support
Whole person care
Culturally responsive
Connected and present
Flexible & easily low-lift
You are the Legacy
Presence / Presente is structured, evidence-informed, and fundable through staff wellness, mental health equity, and community care grants.
Wellness investment is one of the most effective tools for reducing burnout-driven turnover, the leading challenge in the political, activist, and nonprofit sector right now.
Designed by and for communities that are greatly impacted. Bilingual. Not imported from dominant wellness culture, rooted in the communities it serves.
You provide the space and the people. We handle everything else. One session or four or more weeks start wherever makes sense for your organization.
Choose wellbeing workshops to fit
your organization
Single Session
una sesión - 90 min
A complete experience moving through the full arc of the methodology. The best way to experience what this is before committing to a series..
What's included
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90-minute facilitated session
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Accessible movement and breath practices
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Collective witnessing practice
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Individual transferable practice for each person
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Bilingual closing ritual
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Up to 30 participants
Free / pay what you can · grant fundable
4-Week Series
Cuatro semanas - 75 min
Four sessions, one per week. Each one deepens the last.
The full methodology across a month of care with lasting impact.
The four sessions
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Week 1 — Land / Llegar:What we're carrying
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Week 2 — Stay / Quedarse:Finding ground
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Week 3 — Belong / Pertenecer:Not carrying it alone
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Week 4 — Return / Volver:What is still ours
Sliding scale · grant fundable · no org turned away
Ongoing Support
Volver, Siempre
For organizations ready to make collective care a sustained practice.
What's included:
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Monthly, quarterly, or custom session cadence
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Delivered by Susanna or a certified Ignite practitioner
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Each session builds on the last deepening the methodology over time
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Annual partnership planning and check-ins
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Priority scheduling and organizational continuity
Pricing: Custom: based on frequency, format, and organizational capacity. Grant fundable. No organization turned away for cost.
Volver, siempre. We keep returning.
Estamos aqui. We are here. Volvemos. We return. Presente.
Meet Our Founder and Team at Ignite
Susanna Barkataki.
Founder, Ignite Institute for Yogic Leadership & Social Change
PhD Scholar in Yoga Psychology ·
Bestselling Author · International Yoga Teacher · Certified Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Susanna has spent over 15 years at the intersection of authentic yoga, social justice, and collective healing. As a South Asian woman who has witnessed yoga extracted from its roots and stripped of its power, she built Ignite Institute as a response a place where yoga is practiced as a complete system of liberation, not a wellness commodity.
She is the author of two bestselling books the #1 international bestseller Embrace Yoga's Roots and Ignite Your Yoga (Shambhala / Penguin Random House).
Her TEDx talk has reached over 350,000 viewers. She has studied with masters in the Himalayas, Shankarji, and the Dalai Lama, and is ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. She regularly consults with the United Nations, Yoga Journal, and Peloton, and reaches millions of practitioners across platforms.
Presence / Presente and the methodology of
Presence Based Collective Care grew directly from this work, from years of bringing yoga therapy into communities navigating real harm, and training practitioners to do the same. It is the methodology made accessible for the organizations that need it most.
Ignite Institute for Yogic Studies and Social Change has been a leading voice in lineage-rooted, equity-centered yoga education for over a decade reaching millions yearly and certifying 2,500+ teachers and therapists across the US and internationally.
Who this is designed for
Organizations whose people are living what they are advocating for
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Immigrant rights | Community organizing | Frontline teams
Working Families Coalitions | Social Workers and Advocates
Schools | Recovery Communities | Survivors of Trauma
Elderly | System Impacted | Communities navigating displacement
Formats
Your Dedicated Support System for Transformation
In person or virtual
Meet your people
where they are
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Group Size
Your staff and community
Languages
English and Español
Inclusive & Justice-Rooted • Authentic Tradition • Premier Faculty •
Presence / Presente Bringing collective care to your organization
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