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Explore the benefits of embodied mindfulness practices and learn how they help build resilience, support learning and cultivate healthy communities.
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 children 3-18.
Level One (Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children), is offered in two different formats. You choose the one that works for you! One is supported and guided online with our faculty and staff. The other format is on-demand and completely self paced.
Both were created in collaboration with Yoga International and can be taken as a stand alone workshop, or combined with our other courses for certification.
Certification includes our Core Curriculum consisting of Level 1, Level 2, Level 3; Three Online Courses (6 content hours each) addressing trauma, chair yoga, and neurodiversity; Two Integration + Implementation offerings that include practicums (practice teaching clinics) and a mentorship program matching you with a teacher for personalized feedback.
We offer a variety of ways to register and pay for programming. Sign up for courses one at a time, register for our bundled certification program and save over $500, or sign up for one of our flexible payment plans.
Our Level One Course is offered in two ways for you to choose from. One is online, supported, and guided by our faculty and staff. The other option is completely self-paced, and you can start whenever you are ready.
Level Two and Three are offered multiple times a year and are provided in a similar way to our online, guided and supported Level One course.
We also offer an annual week-long training in person at the Omega Institute, which includes L1-L3 courses.
Join us for a wide variety of ways to learn from home, gaining skills and insight to support your students, clients, and your own children. Many courses are eligible for CE hours.
We offer a library of self-paced course, ranging from 75 minutes to 6 hours, as well as a series of livestream workshops with incredible guest teachers.
Join us for a variety of live-streaming and in-person events including workshops, conference presentations, livestream Q&A sessions and more.
Tools to Help Families Raise Resilient Kids, including practice videos, books and card decks, workshops, and articles.
We all need ongoing coaching and support to integrate our learning, continuing growing as educators, and to chat with likeminded folks about the many challenging (and funny) scenarios that arise during teaching. The LFY Coaching and Community Group, open to our training graduates at any level, is designed to offer you tangible resources to support your career, on-going coaching, and a built in group of colleagues.
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.
Join us for a wide variety of ways to learn from home, gaining skills and insight to support your students and clients. We offer both self-paced and livestream workshops with incredible guest teachers, and a library of everyday topic webinars ranging from 75 minutes to 6 hours.
We are excited to offer both our Teacher Training and Certification and School Wellness Program virtually this year. If you’re looking for information about those offerings, please click the above links.
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Learn to share developmentally appropriate, trauma informed, yoga and mindfulness with children and teens ages 3 to 18 in this guided online course.
Tuition: $795Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Join a supported online workshop that features weekly livestream sessions with Jennifer Cohen Harper, and interviews with other experts in the field, including Dr. Dan Siegel, Rhonda V. Magee, Dr. Chris Willard and more. Explore embodied and effective ways to prepare children for anxiety-producing situations, navigate stress, reduce overwhelm and reactivity, and harness their capacity for self-compassion.
Tuition: $199Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Telling kids to “take a deep breath” rarely helps when they are upset, but there are many things that do! Join Jennifer Cohen Harper as she explores ways to support children when they are struggling with overwhelming emotions.
Teacher: Crystal McCreary
Classroom challenges and breakdowns are a natural part of teaching and group learning. Join Crystal McCreary as she shares a practical approach to classroom management that transforms the notion of these challenges into opportunities to deepen connections and grow.
Teacher: Argos Gonzalez
When children reach adolescence they must deal with a variety of changes that can be difficult for them to manage. Join Argos Gonzalez as he shares practical and meaningful activities and resources to effectively engage your teens in ways that support them and help them thrive.
Teacher: Susan Kaiser Greenland
Play builds connection, reduces anxiety, and supercharges learning. Join Susan Kaiser Greenland as she shares playful, activity based mindfulness practices for families.
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Join LFY founder Jennifer Cohen Harper for a webinar that will offer you an introduction to sharing yoga and mindfulness practices with children safely and effectively.
Teacher: Meena Srinivasan
Social and Emotional Learning is integral to quality teaching and learning. Join leading expert Meena Srinivasan for an accessible guide to incorporating SEL into everyday teaching.
Teacher: Mayuri Gonzalez
Kids learn to be aware of themselves, others, and the world around them through games, songs, movement, play, and of course, by practicing stillness again and again. Join Mayuri Gonzalez as she shares how to use movement and music to engage and encourage little ones.
Teacher: Allison Morgan
Join Occupational Therapist and Yoga Instructor Allison Morgan and learn how to bring the practices of yoga and mindfulness safely and effectively to neurodiverse students.
Teacher: Mayuri Gonzalez
Children today sit still for developmentally inappropriate periods of time. Join Mayuri Gonzalez as she shares how chair yoga is an effective and sustainable way to get children and adolescents moving in a classroom setting, without the need for additional space or yoga mats.
Teacher: Jennifer Cohen Harper
Join Jennifer Cohen Harper and gain a greater understanding of the physiological and neurological effects of trauma, the relationship between trauma and behavior, and how yoga and mindfulness practices can support healing and boost protective factors.
Teacher: Argos Gonzalez
Mindfulness can help teachers stay true to their vision for this work as well as help meet daily challenges skillfully. Learn how to stay grounded and effectively engage with students with long time teacher Argos Gonzalez.
Teacher: Joanne Spence
Over time, those of us who are working in high stress environments with students and clients who are considered “at-risk”, may find ourselves with symptoms similar to those of the people we are serving. Join Joanne Spence as she shares how to support your own well-being in the face of secondary trauma.
Teacher: Argos Gonzalez
Develop your own ready to use curriculum. Join Argos Gonzalez as he shares how to assess need, create structures that support learning, embed key questions and learning elements into lessons, make deliberate choices about activities, and evaluate student progress as you go.
Teacher: Mayuri Gonzalez, Argos Gonzalez
We’ve created two online courses to help you develop your own mindfulness practice, and step by step integrate it into your teaching. Both courses include a wide variety of video and audio practices for yourself and your students to help you establish a sustainable and consistent practice.
Based on location courses qualify for graduate credit, continuing education, CTLE, P-credits and salary advancement.
Graduate level credit is also available for our 95 hour Teacher Certification Program.
Learn mindfulness based strategies to increase responsiveness to students’ social-emotional and instructional needs, as well as help develop 21st century skills.
Learn how establishing a personal mindfulness practice can support your efficacy in the classroom, including classroom management and self-care.