Wellness spaces are already places of healing. Through partnership with HER, that healing extends beyond individual clients and into the wider community.

By offering structured access to frontline workers, your studio becomes part of a larger movement — one where wellness supports justice, and care becomes shared infrastructure.

When wellness spaces reinvest in the people holding social and environmental justice work, we strengthen the ecosystems that sustain us all. Supporting frontline workers isn’t charity; it’s reciprocity.

Care flows outward. Communities grow stronger.

Frontline workers are:

• At high risk of burnout and compassion fatigue

• Often underpaid and under-resourced

• Carrying climate, social, and systemic grief &trauma

• Limited access to supports to regulate nervous systems
  
  HER exists to build sustainable capacity, not just for movements, but for the people holding them.

We believe care is infrastructure.

Why Partner Through HER ?

Because this isn’t charity, it’s solidarity & a ecosystem to help bridge the gaps of systemic barriers. This is community collaboration to make this system easier for everyone.

HER Provides:
✓ Direct relationships with frontline community organizations
✓ Coordinated access instead of random discount requests
✓ Shared branding & recognition as a Community Care Studio
✓ Measurable impact reporting
✓ Community visibility through HER’s network
✓ Accountability framework based on our AOP

We create structure.
You provide the space.
Together, we shift culture.

A partnership between HER and wellness studios who commit to offering 5 different models:

• Dedicated “Slow Hours” - If you have slow hours these hours could be used towards serving your community frontline workers.

• Dedicated Community Care Classes - Dedicated classes specifically frontline workers or low income folks.

• Sliding scale or sponsored sessions -PWYC or subsidized classes for eligible Frontline workers.

• Pay-It-Forward - asking your regular clients with the means to contribute to classes for eligible frontline workers.

• Studio-sponsored - If you have the means to sponsors a minimum amount of spots each month for eligible frontline workers.

HER handles:

• Eligibility for frontline workers

• Coordinating access

• Communicating impact stories (with consent)

• Providing equity-informed framework & language

• Aligning the offering with anti-oppressive principles

Studios provide:

• A consistent, agreed-upon offering for frontline workers in their community

• Trauma-aware, inclusive space

• Collaboration in care-based community building

This ensures integrity, accountability, and shared values.

What Studios Receive

🌿 Recognition as a HER Community Care Partner
🌿 Listing on our website & shared promotion
🌿 Window decal / digital badge
🌿 Annual impact summary
🌿 Access to collective gatherings & cross-promotion

This is not a donation.
It’s an ecosystem.

• Yoga & movement studios

• Massage & bodywork studios and practitioners

• Somatic therapy spaces

• Sauna, steam spaces

• Acupuncture clinics

• Eco-therapy & outdoor practitioners

• Breathwork, meditation, nervous system regulation spaces

• Land Cooperatives

  
  If your studio, space or land cooperative believes wellness and justice are connected, lets work together to help sustain our frontline workers!

• Harm Reduction Workers – peer outreach, safe supply advocates, overdose prevention staff

• Crisis & Mental Health Responders – mobile crisis teams, community-based peer support workers

• Mutual Aid Organizers – food distribution, housing justice, community defense

• Social Movement & Grassroots Organizers – those sustaining movements for justice, climate action, Indigenous sovereignty, etc.

• Violence Support & Advocacy Workers – those supporting survivors of gender-based violence, sex workers’ rights advocates, and crisis line responders.

• Shelter & Housing Support Staff – frontline workers in shelters, transitional housing, eviction prevention & encampment support.

• Prison & Police Abolitionists – those supporting formerly incarcerated folks, providing legal aid, or working in transformative & restorative justice

• Healthcare Workers – nurses, paramedics, public health workers, community health organizers