Life Skills for PK & K-12 Schools Offered Virtually or In-Person.
Build resilience, improve emotional balance and increase attention, with joyful and engaging programming and resources.
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.
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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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Life Skills for PK & K-12 Schools Offered Virtually or In-Person.
Build resilience, improve emotional balance and increase attention, with joyful and engaging programming and resources.
Todays students and teachers are facing a world that is unpredictable and often overwhelming. We offer both virtual and in-person programming designed to build the inner resilience needed to navigate physical, mental and emotional stress, and overcome barriers to learning. Our five element structure seamlessly integrates the best of yoga and mindfulness, to provide comprehensive content, create a predictable rhythm to programming, and support ease and consistency of implementation.
Innovative programs for entire school communities that build resilience, improve emotional balance, teach social and emotional learning skills and help kids navigate distractions. Our curriculum has been refined over 13 years of teaching thousands of children and educators, and incorporates up to date research and best practices.
Learn more about our mindfulness and yoga programming from the students and staff at some of our partner schools.
We work with schools worldwide to provide training, resources and consultation virtually. In the greater NYC area we offer both mat and chair/desk based yoga + mindfulness classes for students, and in person professional development workshops for teachers and school staff.
The School Yoga Project offers yoga + mindfulness classes for preschool through high school students, designed 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.
We’ll send you a certified teacher for mat or desk based classes and push-in’s before, during or after school, along with simple support materials for classroom teachers and parents. Our classes are also offered as interactive livestream or pre-recorded programs, that can be played for students in school or at home.
Our curriculum emphasizes practical life skills. In a step-by-step manner we explore navigating challenges and making decisions in ways that meet our own needs while also considering and caring for the needs of others. Students have the opportunity to both give and receive support, learn how to reflect on their actions and impact, and find intrinsic motivation for good decision making.
Orients students to their internal experience, recognizing that self awareness is a building block of self management. Introduces ways to compassionately understand others. This unit incorporates the SEL competencies of self-awareness and social awareness.
Builds student capacity to better understand their emotions and focus their attention. Offers practices to integrate body, nervous system and mind to maximize engagement. This unit incorporates the SEL competencies of self-awareness, self-management and decision making.
Strengthens resilience and teaches students effective ways to manage anxiety, build a strong sense of personal power, and reduce feelings of overwhelm. This unit incorporates the SEL competencies of self-awareness, self-management and responsible decision making.
Little Flower has proven itself to be ground breaking for inner city youth – a multicultural, dynamic, eye-opening, and different experience. The curriculum was very diverse in its teaching. Keep up the great work!
Shakina Shaw
Harlem Children's Zone
This comprehensive professional development program + student resources offers a proven path to develop the inner resilience needed to navigate physical, mental, and emotional stress, and overcome barriers to learning. No yoga experience or special equipment necessary.
Currently available for schools and districts. Individual educator registration coming soon.
Mindfulness, movement, and breath-based tools that can be easily adapted for both in-person and virtual instruction to meet your needs, however they unfold this school year.
Activities are designed to be engaging and easy to explore for students. Practices are offered for grades K-12.
We’ve worked hard to make this program simple to participate in and flexible for the needs a varied school communities.
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Learn MoreMy colleagues, fellow teachers, and administrators have been amazed by Little Flower Yoga's services. Recently, a long-time mindfulness teacher and our curriculum director observed a session led by a staff member from Little Flower Yoga and they were incredibly pleased with the outcome. I am confident that the staff at Little Flower Yoga is capable of meeting the needs of students in order to help them learn tools to manage their stress, become more mindful, and learn self-care skills.
Minu Thomas
School Psychologist, Bronxville Union Free School District
Little Flower Yoga believes that school employee well-being is an essential component of helping schools to be the healthiest they can be. School employee well-being means support for the physical, social, emotional, and professional well-being of all school employees, teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and administrators.
Virtual yoga and mindfulness classes, taught live-streaming or via recordings
A chance for staff to connect in small groups to share how they are doing
Implementation support or customized content
6 week online course for educators, and webinars on relevant topics
Little Flower Yoga has provided and is continuing to provide large scale trainings to faculty and staff at the Pelham Schools. The participants of the training were very engaged throughout the entire experience and were clearly motivated by what they learned as they were observed to implement their new tools immediately in their own classrooms. These trainings have really spring-boarded a change in the culture throughout our schools.
Tiziana Didonna
School Psychologist, Pelham Union Free School District
My students love our visits from Little Flower Yoga. My colleagues have learned powerful practices that have become part of daily classroom life. Students, teachers, and families have learned tools for self-regulation, kindness, and focus.
Elizabeth Slade
Teacher Mamaroneck, NY Public Schools
Yes. We are an approved NYC DOE vendor. Our vendor ID is LIT 79-7777.
Yes, we are currently NYC and NY State MWBE certified.
Yes. All of our teachers are certified yoga instructors and have additionally completed our 95-hour Little Flower Yoga teacher training, giving them the skills to make all yoga practices safe and engaging for children and teens. Some are certified classroom teachers or adult yoga teachers as well.
We would love to connect with you. Please email SYP@littlefloweryoga.com and someone from our team will get back in touch to schedule a FREE 15-30 minute phone consultation to learn more about your needs and prepare a quote for your review.
Currently, we provide on-site programming in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Westchester, and parts of New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, Rockland, Putnam, and Dutchess counties based on our instructor availability.
Additionally, our training team travels out of this area for professional development programs and training. We also provide a number of our trainings as online courses that can be scheduled privately with our team or schools can opt to purchase group licenses for our online courses for teachers to move through at their own pace.
How can this program support schools outside of the NYC area? How does this work?
There are several ways we support schools outside of the NY area.
Options are available for 30-60 minutes for mat-based classes and as little as 15 minutes for desk-based classes. We require a minimum booking of two hours, and you can use that time for 2-6 groups. For longer days, we can work with up to 14 groups per day. Five minutes of transition time is needed between classes and a minimum 30-minute lunch break for site bookings of 4 or more hours.
For mat-based classes, we need one set of mats for the largest class that we will be serving. Mats can be shared between classes, and we recommend purchasing 5-10 extra mats in the event of damage. Our office can assist you in ordering high-quality, affordable mats for your schools at an additional price which can be built into your program fee. We also need a space that is large enough to spread our the mats for each student. Common choices for space include a gymnasium or dance studio, multipurpose room, and auditorium stage. For desk-based classes, we don’t need any additional equipment.
We offer a comprehensive professional development program taught over eight 60-120 minute workshops. Though this program, teachers will learn over 35 mindfulness, movement, and breath-based tools that can easily be integrated into the classroom in a simple, effective way. Each workshop includes:
Workshops can be taught live in-person or virtually, over our interactive web-based learning platform.
Recording packages (including workshop video, copies of handouts, and bonus audio recordings of practices) are available for schools that wish to make the series available to future hires or folks who can’t attend the live offering.
All schools, teachers, and clinicians are eligible to receive our free program, Mindful Mondays. It’s a six-week program used by over 3000 participants around the world who are working to create a mindfulness culture in their schools and classrooms.
You receive an email each week on Sunday night for six weeks with simple and practical mindfulness practices to use with your students each week, resource articles, suggested reading, downloadable worksheets to use in your classroom and video practices to support self-care. You can sign up here.
Additionally, after the 6- weeks, schools can opt to purchase licenses for their teachers to continue the program with Mindful Mondays + for a low cost of $35-$65 per year (based on the number of teachers enrolled) or individuals can register for the program for $65 to receive access to the full portal including over 27 weeks of dynamic content.
Student programs run in nine-week cycles, with start times in Sept/Oct, Jan and April. Assemblies and special events may be booked at any time subject to availability.
Yes. Our teachers are available for school day or after-school classes. We also offer a staff development program that will train your faculty to implement this program in an infusion style that incorporates yoga and mindfulness activities throughout the school day.
Our teachers are trained to work with students from preschool through HS, and modify the activities and language of the curriculum according to students’ needs.
Yes. We are happy to work with you to make sure we are meeting your students’ needs in the most effective way possible. Many of our teachers have experience working with students with a variety of physical, developmental and emotional challenges.
We recommend a max of 15 students in mat based classes; however, we will gladly accommodate larger groups with an assistant (either provided by you or by us). Desk-based classes can be larger, and we’ll make decisions together on a case by case basis.
There are a few ways that schools opt to provide training to their teachers and clinical staff.
We are a NYC vendor, and many schools opt to pay for the program through their schools budget for professional development, materials, family engagement, mental health, social-emotional learning, or student services. Additionally, we work with many PTA’s and school who have received grants for the program or can use funding through our minority-women-owned business status. (MWBE)
We provide ongoing yoga and mindfulness programs for parents, parents educational workshops and family yoga events. Please email SYP@littlefloweryoga.com for a topic list and price list for family engagement events in the NYC metro area.
Yes, we accept purchase orders and credit card payments for schools purchasing products in bulk (20+.) Please email SYP@littlefloweryoga.com for a bulk pricing sheet and to place an order.
Whether you know just what you need, want to talk with our team, or are interested in exploring a more extensive needs assessment, we’re here to help. Click below and share some basic information about your school, and we’ll get back to you quickly to explore your options. A more peaceful path of teaching and learning is right around the corner!
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To learn more about purchasing this program for your school (5+ seats) or district please email us for pricing and options.
We offer various levels of implementation support, coaching and live-streaming Q&A video calls based on your community needs.
Modules are available to schools as a full program or can be customized based on goals and budget.