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A $10 yoga class in a Greenpoint church basement is quietly funding 2,000 meals a week

A volunteer-run $10 yoga class in a Greenpoint church basement quietly bankrolls North Brooklyn Angels, which serves 2,000 free hot meals a week.

A community yoga class on mats inside a Greenpoint church with a stained-glass window

A $10 yoga class in a Greenpoint church basement is quietly funding 2,000 meals a week

A volunteer-run $10 yoga class in a Greenpoint church basement quietly bankrolls North Brooklyn Angels, which serves 2,000 free hot meals a week.

A $10 yoga class in a Greenpoint church basement is quietly funding 2,000 meals a week
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Greenpoint has no shortage of wellness, the boutique-studio, hundred-dollar-membership kind. One of the neighborhood’s busiest yoga operations is the opposite of that: a $10 class in a church basement, run by volunteers, that turns backbends into food for hungry neighbors.

Greenpoint Community Yoga charges $10 to register and sends 100 percent of the proceeds to North Brooklyn Angels, the local food charity. It was founded in February 2024 by Julia…

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