Wellness for
Brand Activations
You gather your people, we’ll lift their spirits - while building your brand awareness at the same time.
Get moving, spark belonging & have fun doing it.
Luxury brands, event producers and organizations hire us to curate our world famous, Drunk Yoga®-inspired immersive wellness experiences for their communities. These include longterm, short term or one-off pop-ups at hotels, stores and residential buildings, as well as customized yoga classes for brand activations.
Why Choose
The Uplift Center?
With 82% of B2B marketers reporting attendee engagement as the #1 measure of an event's success, and loneliness and burnout at an all-time high, our social wellness experiences for brand activations are the perfect solution.
Our expertise lies at the intersection of wellness, mindfulness, and community engagement.
Our clients regularly report that our social yoga events are their highest attended offering.
We offer a turn-key solution for networking, relationship-building and wellness with certified teachers across the country, beverage sponsors and custom branded cup partners, making event planning super easy.
Past Partnerships
Leveraging Drunk Yoga®’s international fame, we’ve uplifted ( + centered) some of the world’s biggest brands to curate unique, playful social yoga experiences to bring their communities together.
High [Five] Life
“420” Themed Cannabis Yoga Pop-up at Moxy Hotel Times Square NYC
#BetterTogether
Post-Pandemic Yoga Party Pop-up at Selina Hotels NYC in 2023
JOYFUL AF
Original Drunk Yoga® experience to kick off the opening of Millennium Hall in Chicago
Driven Together
Community activation for women Porsche customers in Massechusetts in 2024 + 2025
The Experiences Menu
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The Experiences Menu /
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[Social] Yoga & Movement
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The viral sensation that started it all. Our famous yoga drinking game with a beverage in hand — coffee, wine, juice, coconut water or whatever makes you feel like your cup is full.
These bespoke, beginner-friendly interactive yoga drinking games turn a solo practice into a social one with games and laughter built in, so wellness and community building become a one-stop solution.
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All the fun of Drunk Yoga® with none of the drinking. Gentle stretching and partner games loosen the body and your people at the same time. It is the easy yes for groups that want movement and connection without the wellness intimidation factor or logistics of beverages. People leave looser, warmer and noticeably more comfortable with each other.
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This uplifting yoga session is paired with story and themed music playlists to unlock a deeper sense of belonging to yourself, your body and the present moment. It is intelligently sequenced for all levels, so a room of total beginners and seasoned practitioners can move through it together and feel equally welcome. Think less “performance” and more “permission.” A grounding, restorative way to open or close a day before the bigger group moments begin.
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A playful, guided all-levels run through NYC with built-in stops for stretching, connection and optional power bursts, so every body moves at its own pace while the group stays together. Part workout, part walking conversation, part shared city adventure.
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[Non-cheesy] Play
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The classic game night, redesigned to build belonging. Think charades but better, plus a rotating lineup of fast, interactive, lightly competitive games that get a whole room shouting, laughing and accidentally (but like, totally on-purpose) bonding.
Teams form on the fly, the usual hierarchy goes out the window and people who would never chat at a mixer end up high-fiving over a ridiculous round. It is structured enough to never stall and loose enough to feel like recess for grown-ups. The kind of night people bring up for months.
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The cringe-free icebreaker. Playful, interactive and non-cheesy 30 to 45 minute sessions for facilitated networking at live events, designed to uplift, engage and spark radical belonging. No name tags read aloud and no forced fun that makes people reach for their phones. The perfect on-ramp before a keynote, a meal or a longer program.
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The intern and the executive spell the same impossible words, and the whole room is rooting for both. Competitive, hilarious and surprisingly humbling, this team spelling bee brings out everyone's inner overachiever and flattens the hierarchy in the most joyful way possible. Equal parts game show and bonding exercise, it is the kind of thing people are still quoting back at each other weeks later.
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[Chill] Connection
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Networking with soul. A facilitated gathering of storytelling, intentional small groups and structured conversation that gets you past "let's connect on LinkedIn" and into the architecture of belonging.
A host led story opens the room, breakout questions invite people in gently and a closing moment lets everyone offer one line back to the group. It is the antidote to the awkward mixer, designed so the introverts and the extroverts both leave having actually connected.
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Breath sparks belonging. Breath Connection is breathwork reimagined as a social, collective experience. An expert facilitator guides your group through pranayama that settles your system and connects you to the people breathing beside you. No experience required.
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A facilitated story “campfire-style” circle built around a bowl of prompts. People take turns drawing one and have seven minutes to share, or simply bond through listening.
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Dance Uplifted™ is where movement becomes belonging, a guided dance experience led by a wellness facilitator and epic DJ in one, designed to drop you out of your head and into the room. No wrong dance moves, no self-consciousness, just a shared beat and permission to let go.
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Guided meditation made ever-so-slightly social through light interactive moments, so stillness becomes something a group does together rather than alone in the same room.
Beginner-friendly and connection forward, it cultivates the safety and centeredness that connection requires.
“Eli’s approach to events is nothing short of remarkable, transforming what could have been a traditional gathering into an experience that was both playful and empowering. From the moment we began discussing our event requirements, Eli demonstrated an innate ability to understand our needs and translate them into a perfectly curated experience. wholeheartedly recommend The Uplift Center and her team to anyone looking to elevate their event experience to new heights.”
— Jake Pereira, Experience Manager, Porsche
You gather your people, we’ll uplift them.
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When you meet with our events team, we’ll ask you some poignant questions about your organization’s community engagement & wellness goals, as well as what your culture values.
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Once you book your event, we’ll send you a customization form to complete, telling us a little more about your event goals, attendees, music preferences and anything else you think we should know in order to create a fun and meaningful experience for all.
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Our team will send you a calendar invite with all the details, including an e-waiver, link to your custom playlist and welcome video so you can share it with your people.
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All that’s left to do is grab your mat, fill your cup(s) with something that makes you happy and allow us the pleasure of uplifting your community.
“Eli Walker’s curated Drunk Yoga® experiences have been key to our wellness partnerships – one of the first we opted to work with and now, our go-to for community-building and yoga. It’s been incredible to see the engagement and participation that comes from this type of programming. Our clients share that they deliver 100% in a professional and approachable style and they have utilized the hotel spaces uniquely, bringing out the best for all involved.”
— Amy Ramskill, Director of Sales & Marketing, Hotel Erwin, Venice Beach