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 with a monthly contribution.
As a Friend of Lotus, please know that you will be supporting the work of our Lotus Center in the following important ways…
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.
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.
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.
Monday Morning Dharma is offered in-person at Lotus Center and via Live Stream from 8:30 to 9:00 AM. To register for live stream, please visit 
Come for an hour and a half of free form dance where you can groove however your body wants, by yourself or with others. Bare your soles (and soul), surrender to the music and let your movement be guided by your body’s wisdom. There are no wrong moves. Doors open at 10:30 AM; dance starts at 11:00.
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.