Dedicated to making the tools of yoga and mindfulness available to all children and teens
Why Mindfulness and Yoga
How Yoga and Mindfulness Help Kids Thrive
Explore the benefits of embodied mindfulness practices and learn how they help build resilience, support learning and cultivate healthy communities.
The Research
Learn more about the research in the field, and the work we’re doing with our school partners to evaluate our programming.
About LFY and Our Team
We have 31 incredible team members teaching kids, training adults, supporting operations, and more. Come get to know us.
Hear from the Kids
Hear directly from students about what mindfulness and yoga mean to them in daily life.
The School Yoga Project
Classes for Students
Virtual programming available nationwide (livestreaming or recorded content). In-person programming in select locations.
Chair and mat-based yoga and mindfulness classes for youth ages 3-18 right in the classroom.
School Wellness Program
Professional Development workshops for school staff + video resources for students, to help build yoga and mindfulness in-house culture and capacity.
Staff Wellness
Support for the physical, social, emotional, and professional well-being of all school employees, teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and administrators.
Hear From Our Schools
Hear directly from schools we’ve worked with to better understand how yoga and mindfulness can support your students, teachers, and larger community.
Training
Teacher Certification
Explore our comprehensive teacher certification program, and learn to support and grow the inner resources of kids 3-18.
We are currently offering our full certification in an online format, and will return to in-person trainings when we are certain we can do so safely.
Online Training with Yoga International
We’re excited to be offering our Level One Children’s Yoga + Mindfulness Training online for the first time with partner organization Yoga International!!
This is a self-paced course, that you can begin at any time. Take it as a stand alone workshop, or combine with our other courses for certification.
NEW Navigating Anxiety in Children Workshop
Join Little Flower Yoga founder Jennifer Cohen Harper for this self-paced online course, created in collaboration with Omega Institute, that gives caregivers, educators, and others tools and insights to help kids feel more powerful and competent in the face of anxiety.
Webinars
Accessible webinars (from 90 minutes to 6 hours) taught by the LFY Team and some wonderful guest faculty on topics such as trauma informed teaching, working with teens, building resilience, chair yoga, and much more.
In an effort to protect our students and teachers, all in-person programming has been suspended until further notice.
We’ve added significant online offerings including teacher training (both self-paced and livestream) to our calendar, and hope they meet your needs at the moment. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to be in touch.
Events
Teacher Certification Courses
Explore our comprehensive certification program, and learn to support and grow the inner resources of kids 3-18.
Anxiety Workshops
Weekend workshop for parents, educators, health care providers. Learn a new framework for relating to anxiety, along with concrete practices to help your children thrive.
Live Webinars
Join us for interactive online learning experiences with a wide variety of guest teachers.
In an effort to protect our students and teachers, all in-person programming has been suspended until further notice.
We’ve added significant online offerings including teacher training (both self-paced and livestream) to our calendar, and hope they meet your needs at the moment. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to be in touch.
Resources
For Families
Tools to Help Families Raise Resilient Kids, including practice videos, books and card decks, workshops, and articles.
Book and Card Decks
Easy to use resources for families, educators, clinicans and children + teens themselves.
Articles and Practices
Explore searchable content from our teaching and learning community, including activities and practices.
Friends and Partners
COMING SOON
It’s a wide and wonderful world out there, and we think you should get to know these folks doing allied work in the field.
Contact
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Our Mission
Embrace Joy,
Build Resilience
Our mission is to help kids thrive in the world regardless of circumstances, and navigate the many challenges they face with a sense of personal power and self awareness.
Yoga offers a pathway towards mindfulness grounded in practice and accessible to all. It cultivates inner resources that maximize resilience, and support the healthy navigation of challenges.
Program Info
Our Programs
We share yoga and mindfulness based practices that give children full access to the resources of their body, breath and mindset, and do so within the context of compassionate, respectful relationships. Programming and resources are available for students, educators, parents and allied professionals.
Teacher Certification
Learn to share yoga + mindfulness with children 3-18 years old in our trainings offered around the world, and online with partner Yoga International.
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Online Learning
Accessible webinars and online courses on a wide variety of topics, include options ranging from 90 minute webinars to entire 20+ hour training courses.
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The School Yoga Project
Workshops for school staff, chair or mat-based yoga + mindfulness classes for PK through HS (right in the classroom), and resources for the whole school community.
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Learn from Home at Your Pace
Online Teacher Training
Our full Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher Training teacher is now available online!
We’ve partnered with Yoga International to offer an engaging, self-paced version of our Level 1 training. You can take this 20 hour course as a stand-alone opportunity to learn to share yoga and mindfulness with children, or using as a starting point towards earning your certification (RCYT), which you can continue with us online or in-person around the world.
Our Level 2 and 3 courses are now available as interactive, live-streamed sessions. Visit events to see upcoming dates.
A Step by Step Map
Jennifer Cohen Harper is a gentle and experienced guide into the artful practice and practical science of yoga for children. Little Flower Yoga offers a step-by-step map to help you make this body-centered mindfulness practice a regular part of your life with the kids you care for.
Dr. Daniel Siegel, author of The Whole Brain Child and Brainstorm
Stress is an epidemic in our society.
Kids not only carry the stress of their own lives, but also absorb the anxiety that comes from the adults closest to them. This program is a wonderful resource for parents and teachers to teach our kids the essential life skills they need to thrive in a world that grows more complicated by the day. I highly recommend Little Flower Yoga for anyone who wants to teach their child how to be happy, healthy and well balanced.
Tim Ryan, U.S. Congressman
My students love our visits from Little Flower Yoga.
Little Flower Yoga's School Yoga Project offers an accessible and exceedingly well-thought out approach that supports children and teachers in finding ease, strength, self-awareness and joy.
Elizabeth Slade, Public School Teacher
A great resource for clinicians, educators and parents.
I love how accessible and practical this workbook is. The clean layout and valuable content make it a great resource for clinicians, educators, and parents. There is a great deal of science suggesting that the way we move our bodies impacts our emotions. This workbook will help kids move their bodies to build emotional regulation.
Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW, Co-Author Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline
A sweet book I wish I had as a kid!
It's a great resource for children as well as parents, teachers, and clinicians. It's a great resource for children as well as parents, teachers, and clinicians.
Rick Hanson, PhD, NYT's bestselling author of Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing and Hardwiring Happiness
Simple to do yet powerful in their impact
The Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck is a FABULOUS resource for children, their parents, teachers, coaches. Beautifully illustrated, the practices offered are simple to do yet powerful in their impact. With clear instructions for each practice, and sensible suggestions for organizing into lengthier programs, this teaching tool is a bona fide treasure.
Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
I have been an educator for 30+ years and this was one of THE best trainings I have ever attended
The presenters are impassioned individuals who have deep respect for children and their development and share their passion, tools and resources with grace, intelligence and humor. They created a safe space for us to learn, experiment, ask questions and make mistakes. They also facilitated time for us to reflect, collaborate and nurture ourselves. TOP NOTCH!!!
Laurie Mortrude, Teacher
An Inspiring Resource
Little Flower Yoga for Kids is a wonderful introduction to present-moment awareness and mindfulness through a grounded and playful yoga practice. It is an inspiring resource for children and their parents.
Sharon Salzberg, Author Real Happiness
The whole LFY training experience has been incredible
I'm loving teaching yoga and mindfulness to my students. I still have so much to learn and practice but you've given me such a strong foundation. I'm incredibly grateful to you all!
Carone Weigel, Teacher
If you teach kids any form of social and emotional learning, you have to take this training
This has to be the best kids Yoga & Mindfulness training in the country. In taking other trainings, even at the college level, it doesn't compare to the efficacy in presenting that LFY shows, and the skill base you develop. Well thought out and thorough training. Superb online resources for further development. If you teach kids any form of social and emotional learning, you have to take this training.
Lou Redmond, Mindfulness Educator & Author, RYT
Why Little flower Yoga
Mindfulness Based Social-Emotional Learning
At LFY we teach embodied mindfulness practices with the express goal of building social and emotional learning competencies.
By orienting our students, with kindness and curiosity, towards their own inner experience, and the experiences of others, we lay the foundation for healthy and respectful relationships both internally and externally.
Upcoming Online Learning
Interactive Webinars and Online Courses
A little About our Team
Meet The Team
The work of LFY is supported by a powerful team of leaders and educators, with diverse backgrounds and experiences in education, mindfulness, yoga, the arts, psychology, communication and much more.
With 33 folks teaching kids, training adults, creating content, supporting operations, and more, we have the ability to reach children and adults with diverse backgrounds and needs, and in varied locations.
While our team’s power is rooted in our differences, and our ability to bring our heads and hearts together to create a sum greater than it’s parts, we all share a dedication to serving children, educators and families with compassion, respect and ultimately with love.
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