YEAH! YOGA - Bringing Wellness Tools to Youth Impacted by Incarceration.

YEAH! YOGA (yeahyoga.org) teaches yoga and mindfulness to youth (ages 10-24) who are incarcerated and impacted by incarceration in the Greater New Orleans area. 

Why do we do this? Why is this important? What is the impact? How are we growing? Find out more about the unique mission of this New Orleans non-profit.

Originally from Pittsburgh and rooted in New Orleans since 1997, Camille Baldassar is a lifelong educator, artist, and wellness leader dedicated to youth empowerment and community healing. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Initiatives at YEAH! YOGA, where she has helped shape trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness programming for young people since 2016.

Camille has worked with youth as an art teacher, K–12 literacy consultant, and yoga educator across the Gulf Coast for more than two decades.  She is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance–certified registered yoga teacher with specialized training in trauma-informed and youth yoga. Camille holds a Master’s degree in Organization Design and Renewal from Seattle University and a Master’s degree in Art from Texas Tech University, grounding her work in both strategic leadership and creative practice.