Tools for Inner Peace began a 9 month project to train a group of 20 Palestinian teenagers aged between 14 and 20 to teach yoga to other teenagers. The training is held in Palestinian refugee camps located on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. These refugee teenagers who would otherwise not receive an education are given classes in Arabic, English, math and yoga at informal education centres, run by Alsama, a partner organization. The aim is that the 20 yoga trainees will learn to share simple yoga practices with 800 of their peers.
A one year community yoga teacher training was completed; it was run by a team of sevaks from Lebanon and Syria. 17 participants completed the training, they included people from all different backgrounds: Syrian and Palestinian refugees; Lebanese and Armenian-Lebanese; Christian, Sunni and Shia Muslim.