"Teachers want to know how do I stop this? How do I deescalate? ...You use mindfulness and you get to the root of what’s going on with your students."
- Danielle Brunson
"If you have the tool of mindfulness, it can improve your relationships, improve focus, and the way you approach life in general. You will see that life around you will change which is the most beautiful part".
- Kali Arnold, M.D.
"If we can make school a safe place, and help them have some mindful tools, and even though they go home to that trauma everyday they know how to better deal with it. Having that time and being able to practice yoga and being kind to myself is priceless."
- Jenny Harden
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“I believe that education at its highest level is about inspiring others to discover and develop their joy.”
- Hans Appel
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“And so, I am intentional about emboldening because, number one, people ask me what I mean. Whereas empower, people think they know what you mean. And I'm able to say I'm not empowering anyone because I can't give them power that they already possess, and the reason we do coaching and why I like it so much is because it is all about kind of drawing out what's already in people.”
- Jonathan Santos Silva
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"This speaks to the bigger point of acknowledging what we need, acknowledging what our students need. It’s okay to ask your students, and your families and yourself I think ‘What do I need in this moment?’ and then have a conversation about that.”
- Rebecca Itow
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“It’s an amazing school…I’m able to combine everything I want to do. I can combine teaching with the mental health side…It’s mental health before academic learning. If students are going to learn, they need to feel happy and safe. If they don’t feel happy and safe, there is no point forcing academic learning on them because it’s not going to help…it’s about building the foundations. And when you built the foundation successfully, actually the academic progress happens really quickly.”
- Vicki Williams
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“It’s such a 911 situation. And I think we’ve got kind of parallel tracks in terms of what can each of us do to manage our internal world so the external world feels manageable and at the same time, engage with the powers that be so that the more structural issues are also attended to because I get worried about that teachers and people in general feeling like we’re saying, ‘Hey, just fix this with self care.’ when there are really massive structural issues at play.”
- Michelle Kinder
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“I’ve learned how to express love in different ways, that without the pandemic, I might not otherwise would have.”
- Amy Valentine
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“I just miss my community and doing things with other people…That's ungrounding. But, I am still finding ways to connect with community through a lot of Zoom fitness classes.”
- Carmie Heisler
“I've had to get in touch with my aloneness and really get in touch with who am I in the depths of my aloneness.”
- Jordan Taylor
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“We all have different values and we all define health and wellness and transformation differently and that we all come to our journeys maybe in different manners and we just have to be open to allowing everyone to explore their experiences in their own way and assist them not by taking the lead but by following and adding to wherever they are in their journey.”
- Joy Osterhout
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“Remember in that class when we were in a twist and we had to breathe through it, that’s what I took off the mat, that in life if we are in a twist, we can breathe through it.”
- Carmie Heisler
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“Each body and life is unique and it’s your choice on how you take care of that body and your life.”
- Kate Sarton
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“You have to be kind to yourself in order to spread kindness to other people. It starts within you.”
- Jennie Bhairavi Craig
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“I'm doing all of the things that terrify me, but I know that I'm supposed to do them.”
- Lana Lane Fortier
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“You're not going to yoga because you are flexible and have this peaceful state of mind. You're going to yoga to develop those things and to develop that internal peace and confidence and health for your body.”
- Erika Helgerson
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“Transformations, as difficult as they may be, bring us closer each time to our True Self, our Truest Nature. It is through this process that we rediscover our own inner Light and in doing so, encourage others to do the same. There’s so much magic in this!”
- Kalyani Nicole Heath
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