Underdogs Boxing Club and Shape Your Life - Niagara are fortunate and extremely grateful to be able to work closely with Shape Your Life to learn best practices for offering the program locally.
Shape Your Life - Niagara
Through the generosity of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Underdogs Boxing Club has become the home of Shape Your Life Niagara. For more than ten years, Shape Your Life has been helping self-identified women survivors of violence in Toronto work through their experiences by helping participants reclaim control of their bodies and reconnect their bodies & minds. This is the first local iteration of the program.
As the program grows, we will adapt it to local needs, whilst maintaining the trauma-informed care and practice techniques that have proven successful in delivering improvements in the physical, social, and emotional well-being of Shape Your Life participants.
Shape Your Life - Niagara Schedule
All Shape Your Life - Niagara classes will run weekly on Sunday afternoons. Classes will begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at 3:00 p.m.
Currently, due to the pandemic, there are no sessions planned for the foreseeable future. Once we have clarity on how we need to operate in the wake of the pandemic, we will announce dates for future sessions.
How to register for Shape Your Life - Niagara
If you are a survivor of violence - single event or multiple events, no matter how far in the past - you are eligible to participate in the Shape Your Life program.
We will have boxing gloves for you to borrow, and we'll provide you with your own set of hand wraps to keep, as well as providing transit passes and childcare funds, if necessary (please note that funds are limited).
Space is limited, so we ask that you review the Shape Your Life - Niagara Schedule and ensure that your own schedule allows for you to attend each of the classes in whichever Session you sign up for.
If you would like to participate, please e-mail Laura (laura@underdogsboxing.org) with the following information:
name;
best/preferred contact information (phone, e-mail);
in which Session(s) you are able to participate (in case we are oversubscribed for a Session);
confirmation that your schedule allows you to participate in each of the classes in the scheduled Session(s) for which you indicated a preference;
if you require transit passes; and
if you require funds for childcare.
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