Thank you wonderful, supportive yoga fans for signing this petition to open yoga classes and studios with COVIDSafe measures. We've gained over 1000 signatures!!! As you can see in the petition comments, so many people rely on yoga for their mental health so you're doing a really good thing by signing and sharing. 

ClubsNSW have now successfully lobbied to allow 500+ people into clubs, and pokies will be operating too - we need that kind of organised lobbying to influence the NSW government. 

Here's some easy things you can do:

1. If you run your own class and/or studio, email your local NSW MP with your COVIDSafe plan for how you will manage your classes safely so that they can advocate for our sector - we are already gaining traction with this method and MPs are encouraging us to do so. The attached link shows how to look up your local MP’s details. Please encourage other yoga teachers and studio owners to do the same. 

2. Put pressure on your yoga association to advocate for us by emailing them your COVIDsafe plan and sharing the petition link.

3. Share the petition link far and wide to everyone you know who would be sympathetic to this issue so we gain maximum momentum. The link is: http://chng.it/V945fHqgNq. If your yoga friends aren’t on Facebook, please send them it via email/text. We already have 1000+ signatures but we need a lot more to persuade the NSW health minister.

Perhaps use the tagline: “If it's safe for pubs and clubs to open with 500+ people, it's more than safe for yoga classes to open with COVIDsafe measures."

Wishing you all the best in these strange times.