HealthCorps® is a proactive health movement founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiac surgeon, best-selling author, and Health Expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, to help stem the crisis of child obesity through school-based health education and mentoring, as well as community events and outreach to underserved populations.

Distinguished by its mission to engage and educate America's youth and families to "Eat Smart and Exercise," HealthCorps provides the knowledge, tools and support to make healthy choices.

With its vision to become the most trusted brand for proactive health and wellness in America, HealthCorps aims to revolutionize America's concept of health by prioritizing prevention and personal responsibility.

Modeled after the Peace Corps, the HealthCorps school-based program shows teens practical life skills through fun, interactive school seminars focused on the value and power of students' bodies and minds. HealthCorps "Coordinators", recent college graduates who have deferred medical school or graduate health program studies to participate in public service, empower teens to become educated consumers and health activists and encourage students to develop positive behavioral shifts that enhance self esteem and mental resilience.

The community-based outreach and events include professional development seminars, competitions ("Healthy Steps,") consumer marketing campaigns and public events, ("Healthy Bodega" and "Highway to Health Fair and Festival,") Parents Nights, and integration existing community efforts.

HealthCorps depends upon public sector partners and philanthropists to maintain its current program and to support its continued growth and national rollout. HealthCorps® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization.

(From Healthcorps.net)

USA Yoga is a non-profit organization formed for the purpose of developing and promoting Yoga Asana (yoga postures) as a sport. Yoga Asana competitions originated in India hundreds of years ago and are still being conducted there today. USA Yoga is now bringing this spirit of healthy competition to the United States, where, according to a recent study, more than 25 million people either practice yoga or intend to start within the next year. USA Yoga believes that the sport of Yoga Asana will inspire many of these practitioners to improve their practices and encourage many newcomers to take up the practice of yoga and the sport of Yoga Asana.

USA Yoga is developing educational programs, rules and regulations so that the necessary competitive skills can be understood and mastered by competitors, coaches, judges, administrators and yoga studio operators. Successful competitors will need to achieve mastery of physical strength, stamina, balance, flexibility, breath and concentration. Today, USA Yoga sponsors annual regional Yoga Asana competitions as well as a national competition held in February of each year. These competitions are open to competitors from any yoga school or style and all are encouraged to participate. To borrow an ancient phrase, ‘the paths are many, the sport is one.’

USA Yoga believes that the practice of yoga and Yoga Asana is beneficial for the physical and mental health of all practitioners – children, teens, adults and seniors. Increased awareness of the sport of Yoga Asana will encourage existing practitioners to sharpen their skills through training, dedication, and devotion to the sport, and will inspire new practitioners to begin a practice which leads to a healthier and happier life.

USA Yoga seeks to become the national governing body for the sport of Yoga Asana and has applied to the United States Olympic Committee to be recognized as such. USA Yoga’s goal is to join with similar organizations in other countries to form an international yoga federation and to qualify Yoga Asana as an Olympic sport.
If you share this goal and our vision of presenting the athleticism, discipline, and grace of yoga at the XXXI Olympics in 2016, please consider joining USA Yoga today.

(From USAyoga.org)