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.
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.
Joanne Spence is a recovering social worker and certified yoga therapist. She is the executive director of Yoga in Schools. She has over 15 years of experience teaching therapeutic yoga to children and their teachers. She trains and teaches all sorts of interesting people, both nationally and internationally, to teach yoga to children. Additionally, she teaches yoga in prisons, hospitals, schools, churches and sometimes street corners. Her sub-specialties are treating adults and children with chronic pain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia. Joanne has over 30 years of clinical experience, ten of those years as the first yoga therapist at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Currently, she is in private practice (Urban Oasis Pittsburgh) and she also works with veterans on several behavioral health units in Pittsburgh, PA teaching therapeutic chair yoga.
Joanne has been married for 30 years and has 2 adult children and one teen – all of whom practice yoga! When she is not teaching, Joanne loves to read, write, hike, travel, cook and even dance a little – just not all at the same time.
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