Navigating Anxiety In Children: Meeting Stress with Inner Strength (Online Course)
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Explore the benefits of embodied mindfulness practices and learn how they help build resilience, support learning and cultivate healthy communities.
Learn more about the research in the field, and the work we’re doing with our school partners to evaluate our programming.
We have 31 incredible team members teaching kids, training adults, supporting operations, and more. Come get to know us.
Hear directly from students about what mindfulness and yoga mean to them in daily life.
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.
Professional Development workshops for school staff + video resources for students, to help build yoga and mindfulness in-house culture and capacity.
Support for the physical, social, emotional, and professional well-being of all school employees, teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and administrators.
Hear directly from schools we’ve worked with to better understand how yoga and mindfulness can support your students, teachers, and larger community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore our comprehensive certification program, and learn to support and grow the inner resources of kids 3-18.
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.
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.
Tools to Help Families Raise Resilient Kids, including practice videos, books and card decks, workshops, and articles.
Easy to use resources for families, educators, clinicans and children + teens themselves.
Explore searchable content from our teaching and learning community, including activities and practices.
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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.
Dr. Alana Burton was named Systems of Support Adviser for Los Angeles Unified School District in May, 2020. With fifteen years of service to education, she is passionately committed to positively impacting the whole individual and whole community by building sustainable equity, diversity, and inclusion; advancement; and positive empowerment business culture. Dr. Burton uses her knowledge, passion, experience, and skills to form strong relationships and build capacity and external partnerships. These meaningful relationships provide access, data driven action plans, and differentiated development to remove social-emotional barriers. Her previous roles contributed to her visionary leadership: board member, union chair, leadership team member, restorative justice adviser, Gifted and Talented Coordinator, School Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support member, Test Administrator, educator, and educational psychology leadership graduate student. Her goal is to support the whole person, whole environment, and whole community.
As Systems of Support and Restorative Justice Adviser, she collaborated with local district leadership and all school level stakeholders to build capacity and equitable inclusion to address barriers as part of the positive culture framework for settings ranging from Early Childhood Centers through High Schools. She provided access to individualized created resources based on verbal feedback and survey responses; crisis team support; risk and threat assessments; and strategic recommendations. She conducted school needs assessments, asset mapping, and lead community dialogues with external partnerships: Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles School Police, city attorneys, Gang Reduction and Youth Development Foundation, Hathaway-Sycamore Children Services, and Healthy Start Program Coordinators.
In 2018, Dr. Burton was a concurrent full-time graduate student; educator; board member; educational leader, and mother. She designed evaluation plans; created differentiated curriculum and professional development; and conducted her dissertation based on the achievement gaps she saw first-hand. She created budget options to save teaching positions and address barriers: promoting Social-Emotional Learning integration. She created data driven interventions and strategic action plans for diverse stakeholders, specialized student population, students with special needs, low-income students, gifted and talented students, teachers, and parents. She also ensured compliance of district and state policies, matched school brand with community, maintained high level of equitable inclusion, diversity, and built successful external partnerships with community members. She also assisted with planning and implementing fundraising events and increased family engagement.
Navigating Anxiety In Children: Meeting Stress with Inner Strength (Online Course)
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Online Teacher Training: Teaching Yoga & Mindfulness to Children (Level 1)
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper