As we lead up to our youth camp, Wilderwonder in July, we want to create opportunities for our youth community to grow and connect with each other. Our goal in our work with young people is to foster a sense of healing, belonging, and empowerment, while cultivating a supportive and uplifting community.

For March, we're having a community boxing class with our friends over at City Of Angels boxing. They're a community oriented gym with a class that is upbeat and welcoming to all levels of experience in boxing. So even if you're just coming out to give it a try, we're sure you'll feel the welcoming vibes. The owners Alex and Jesse have been gracious enough to donate the gym and a personalized class in order to help us raise funds for our youth programming. Our suggested donation is $20, and we also have a free ticket option, as we want anyone to be able to join us without means as a barrier.

City of Angels will also be providing wraps and boxing gloves for all attendees. If you want to just come and hang out and watch the class, you are also more than welcome to do that! We hope to see you at City of Angels!

Starting in 2013, Eayikes connected youth from neighborhoods across the socioeconomic spectrum through arts & wilderness camps. We harnessed the power of safe space our powerful community of young professionals serving as mentors who model courage, compassion, and childlike-wonder.

We facilitated a-ha moments by cultivating an open mind to others, emphasizing activities centered on the sharing of life experiences and challenging comfort zones to self-reflect, self-explore, and build self-esteem. Our practice and learning experiences from these years continues to inform and re-affirm our path. Youth programming is able to be offered through school contracts and grants.

As our youth programs grew and more young professionals displayed change from their participation, we began to recognize the need for courage, compassion, and childlike-wonder for adults. We believe our vision of a more just and compassionate world will be more quickly attained if more adults are building community and connection in the world. Wondershop events such as Wonderfull Wednesdays simply grew from six community members coming together on a Wednesday after work. Organically, the adult community bloomed all around us. Now, we’ve channeled our collective courage, compassion, and wonder towards our most marginalized neighbors, the unhoused of LA & OC, as well as intersected our love for the outdoors and healing power of Mother Nature to create an annual camping experience.

We are committed to uplifting community health, creating more equity, and doing this work intergenerationally, as we begin seeing a return of the youth who we’ve mentored taking on larger roles as young adults in Eayikes.

23/03/25 Community Boxing Class

A Boxing Class with City of Angels Boxing