Giving Options
Thank You for Supporting Your Non-Profit, Community-Owned Lotus Center!
Become a “Friend of Lotus”
Through the Friends of Lotus program, you can pledge a monthly amount to support the work of our Center, and ensure our ongoing viability. Please consider becoming a Friend of Lotus.
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Make a Plan to Support Lotus Center
Planned Gifts and Estate Planning are legacies of generosity through which you can ensure that your Lotus Center will continue to serve our community for generations to come.
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Lotus Center Ceramic Tiles
Proceeds from these custom-made ceramic tiles, designed by Silver City-based Syzygy Tile, are used to fund our community service program, Yoga in Public Schools.
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Make Recurring Donations via PayPal
Make recurring donations to Lotus Center through PayPal
according to your preferred giving schedule.
Make a One-time Donation
Lotus Center is a non-profit, community-owned organization. In addition to being a traditional center for yoga and meditation, we have a number of community service programs including Yoga in Public Schools (“YIPS”), a blog named “The Daily Dharma,” and a YouTube channel with many free yoga and meditation videos. All of our meditation classes are offered by donation. Thank you for your generosity.
Amita (Amy) Schmidt LCSW is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher. She was the resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts for six years and she was the co-founder of Southwest Sangha Retreat Center in San Lorenzo, New Mexico. She is the author of “Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master.” She currently practices and teaches meditation from a non-dual perspective.
Teresa is a New Mexico native and returned home to Grant County in 2000. She is a retired educator of 31 years. She taught eighteen years in Prescott Public Schools in AZ. After moving back to NM, she taught at Cliff Schools for 13 years. Her teaching career included high school and junior high school Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences classes. While teaching in Prescott, AZ, she also coached girls track and intramural sports, and sponsored the cheerleading squad.