SolJoy Peaceful Warriors
Restoring Resilience in Leaders
Cultivating Sustainable Wellness
Providing Access to Wellness for Underrepresented Community Leaders
We Serve Historically Excluded, Underrepresented Leaders, Founders, and their Allies through Radical Wellness
100% of your donations provide access to underrepresented leaders in wellness training that lasts.
Our proven, college-accredited somatic mindfulness training course Ignite develops mindfulness, emotional resilience, focus, stress relief, and leadership skills.
We specialize in somatic mindfulness modalities of meditation, movement, music, and martial arts to integrate the mind and body so they can embody what they learn for long term impact.
Mission
We are restoring resilient leaders by equipping them with tools and practices for sustainable wellness, replenishing self-care, and somatic mindfulness so they embody loving compassion for themselves and their communities.
Our mindfulness programs, retreats, potlucks, and peace performances build belonging and a unified voice for peace in times of chaos.
Vision
Our next generation of leaders are embodying peace in any chaos. They are the anchors for loving compassion on the planet, modeling a new humanity of co-existence.
Why Donate
Be part of a Presence Movement to restore resilience and mental well-being for underrepresented community leaders, founders, and educators. These individuals work tirelessly to uplift their communities but often face burnout, stress, and emotional exhaustion—without access to the wellness resources they need to sustain their impact.
Our college-accredited mindfulness training equips leaders with somatic practices, meditation, movement, music, and martial arts to develop emotional resilience, reduce stress, and cultivate sustainable self-care. By providing access to these wellness programs, we ensure leaders can continue their work without sacrificing their own well-being.
This is more than just wellness—it’s about empowering those who serve others.
To remove financial barriers and ensure equitable access to life-changing training, 100% of donations fund scholarships for leaders in need.
Your support makes healing possible.
Donate today and help us create a future where every leader has the strength to keep making an impact.
Where your Donations Go
100% of your donations provide access to scholarships and resilience training for underserved leaders to these partner programs and initatives.
Training Educators for Sustainable Wellbeing for Self and Students
Restoring Resilience through Wellness Retreats for Leaders and Founders
Transforming Entrepreneurs from Burnout to Brilliance in Ignite Course
Boldly Celebrating Asian American Heritage
through Food, Friendship, and Fun
Creating Peace and Mental Health through Performance Art
Our Story
From the Founder: I didn’t anticipate my son learning every swear word on the bus his first day in kindergarten at 5 years old. By first grade, he was uncharacteristically mimicking violent gun behavior before bed attending a low income school on a reservation.
I found out there was a bloody fist fight and recess gang war provoked by kindergartners and 1st graders he was stressed from. Parents were uninformed. Six years olds were throwing chairs at the teacher.
Trying to get involved to by volunteering for all field trips, joining the PTO, and becoming the art docent (since K-5 art was cut), it wasn’t going to change. We pulled him from public to private so he could learn safely.
But I couldn’t walk away from the kids left behind.
Brain Power Wellness was a school program that successfully transformed violent, low income, hardest hit school districts. It was time to bring that training to the school we had left–where my niece would soon attend.
Our History
In 2019 we launched the Conscious Leadership Foundation fund at the Conscious Business Summit raising $3,300 in partnership with Kitsap Community Foundation.
By 2020, we gifted our first mindfulness training to 6 second graders at Madrona Waldorf—just as the pandemic hit.
In 2021, we partnered with Brain Power Wellness and Kitsap Strong, granting our first 3 Power Brain Wellness online educator scholarships to bring to classrooms. However, schools had no capacity to receive our grant awards with more urgent challenges to address day to day.
To ensure funding kept moving in the community, by 2023 we pivoted to expand our outreach from educators in schools to underserved leaders and their community. We piloted peace performances and retreats partnering with local nonprofits.
By 2025, we expanded from solely a scholarship fund to now training underserved leaders through our own wellness retreats, programs, potlucks, and performances.
Today, 100% of your donation provides access to free, life-changing programs for underserved leaders to share in their communities.
We are 100% volunteer-powered and fiscally sponsored by Angels for Angels (EIN 27-5180670).
Help us bring healing where it’s needed most.
Our Board of Directors
Partner Organizations
We partner with mission aligned organizations in the following ways:
1. They serve the same communities of high achieving, impact-driven, historically underserved, and underrepresented leaders. In particular, women and people of color founders and entrepreneurs, multicultural youth, and Asian Americans.
2. They are mission aligned in our approach of using movement, music, performance art, mindfulness and meditation to heal hearts, bodies, and minds to transform our next generation of leaders from burnout to resilient
3. They are foundations who support wellness and mindfulness programs and initiatives in our local communities
100% of Your Donation Provides Real, Lasting Impact
Restore Resilient Leaders in Underserved Communities
Stress, crisis, and exhaustion often force underrepresented leaders in historically excluded communities to burnout when needed the most.
These leaders are fighting for change, yet they lack access to high quality, affordable wellness and mindfulness programs to keep them going.
Without wellness support, they face exhaustion, burnout, and emotional distress—limiting their ability to serve.
Wellness isn’t a luxury. It’s survival. Leaders who burn out can’t fight for their communities. Your support ensures they stay in the game.
Where does my donation go?
Every dollar you donate to SolJoy Peaceful Warriors, a 501(c)3, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit, provides access to funds and training for underserved leaders in one of our programs for:
- Somatic Mindfulness Trainings to access our mindfulness and resilience programs Ignite and Brain Power Wellness
- Leadership Wellness Retreats to equip leaders with sustainable self-care practices
- Mental Health and Peace Performances to help educators, founders, and change makers combat burnout through practicing performance art
No Barriers. Just Access.
Many leaders—especially those from historically excluded communities—can’t afford high-quality wellness training. We make sure they don’t have to. 100% of your donation funds fully paid scholarships so money is never a reason someone doesn’t get the support they need.
When you give, you don’t just help one person—you impact entire communities. Every leader we train takes these tools back to their teams, schools, and organizations, creating a ripple effect of resilience and healing.
Your Return on Investment
You are investing in the next generation of leaders who will
✔ Stay calm and focused under pressure to lead with strength, clarity, and compassion
✔ Build emotional resilience to handle stress and setbacks
✔ Strengthen their mind body connection to be more present by integrating movement, meditation, and music into daily self care practices
Invest in resilient, underserved leaders. Give today.
SolJoy Peaceful Warriors is fiscally sponsored by Angels for Angels, a registered 501(c)(3), which means your donations are 100% tax deductible!
Ways to Engage
Volunteer
We’re 100% volunteer-powered.
If you want to volunteer for a program or event (before/during/after), contribute your expertise with our organization, or get volunteer hours in as a student:
Contact our Volunteer Coordinator jaclyn.chao@gmail.com
Nominate Leaders
Know of a community leader (all ages welcome), founder, or educator you’d like to nominate receive a program scholarship?
Share our programs with high achieving, impact driven leaders who prioritize sustainable wellbeing as essential for their leadership.
Apply
You can self nominate yourself or direct other leaders to apply for program scholarships.
The April 19th Retreat is Now Full. Get on the wait list by applying below.
Our next retreat Sept 20, 2025 World Peace Day Retreat opens for enrollment Aug 1, 2025.
YOUR DONATION IS 100% TAX DEDUCTIBLE
Made possible by and thank you to our Fiscal Sponsor Angels for Angels EIN 27- 5180670
As required by federal tax law, once a donation has been processed, it becomes the property of Angels for Angels, and Angels for Angels has exclusive legal control over the donated funds. Angels for Angels will make a go od faith effort to utilize a gift for the purposes of the project named, however, Angels for Angels reserves the right to re-grant gifts where, in Angels for Angels sole discretion, the recommended project is not furthering its specified charitable purposes or when, for example, such project falls out of compliance with a federal or state regulatory authority. If Angels for Angels cannot regrant a donation to or for the purposes of a project that you have recommended, Angels for Angels may in its sole discretion select an alternate recipient, expend the funds in furtherance of the intended charitable purpose itself, or contact you for a different recommendation.
