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I’ve discovered kids will practice balance WAY longer when you tell them the floor is a giant spiderweb! 🕷️😂And honestly...
10/11/2026

I’ve discovered kids will practice balance WAY longer when you tell them the floor is a giant spiderweb! 🕷️😂

And honestly? That’s the secret behind so much of what I teach.

They think they’re crawling like spiders, balancing over a web and completing silly Halloween challenges…

Meanwhile, I know they’re practicing:

🕸️ balance & coordination
🎯 focus & attention
🧠 motor planning
✨ body awareness
🖤 self-regulation

The learning is hidden inside the play!

For this one, I simply made a giant spiderweb with painter’s tape and challenged my kids to move across it in different Halloween-inspired ways.

But my FAVORITE way to play?! 👀

Add my Yoga Pose or Dare Cards to the web.

Land on a card → pull it → complete the pose or dare → keep moving… 🎃🧘‍♀️

Suddenly one roll of tape becomes an entire movement activity.

Save this for Halloween week because your kids are going to ask to play it again! 🙌

And if you want my ready-to-print Yoga Pose or Dare Cards, comment DARE and I’ll send the link straight to your DMs. 💌

10/09/2026

What if the secret to getting kids to practice mindfulness more…was making it feel less like mindfulness? 👀

That’s something I’ve learned after teaching thousands of kids yoga & mindfulness classes.

If I say, “We’re going to practice our breathing now,” I might get a few breaths.

But give that SAME breath a purpose inside a game, story, challenge or sensory experience?!

They’ll ask to practice it over and over again! ✨

That’s why I create things like our Magical Mindfulness Potions™ 🧪🎃

The kids get to shake their potion, watch everything swirl, slow their breathing and notice as it begins to settle…

They see Halloween magic. 🪄 ✨

I see an opportunity to practice a skill they can eventually reach for when THEY need help settling, too. 🧡

And this philosophy is woven through everything I create inside Teach Smarter™

October’s theme is I AM BRAVE 🕷️ — with an entire month of done-for-you yoga, mindfulness, SEL, games, meditations, printables & Calming Creations™ designed to make BIG skills feel like play. 🤸

Because I don’t just want kids to learn the skill…

I want them to want to practice it!

Comment BRAVE and I’ll send you a peek inside October. 👇

👻 WELCOME TO THE KIDS YOGA TEACHER HAUNTED HOUSE 👻Where the jump scares include…✨ Arriving on site and no one knew you w...
10/08/2026

👻 WELCOME TO THE KIDS YOGA TEACHER HAUNTED HOUSE 👻

Where the jump scares include…

✨ Arriving on site and no one knew you were coming
✨ Finding out you have 5 minutes to move an entire library worth of bookshelves
✨ Watching your beautifully placed yoga mats immediately become sleds
✨ Planning 50 minutes of activities that somehow last…17 😭

And somehow we keep showing up with our giant bags of props, games, yoga cards and approximately 47 things we might need. 😂

Kids yoga teachers, what room are YOU adding to the haunted house?! 👇👻

I have a feeling the comments are about to be terrifying. 😅

And if “I still have to figure out what I’m teaching tomorrow” is your personal haunted house…that’s exactly why I created Teach Smarter™ 🧡

Follow The Mindfulness Movement | Twin Cities MN for kids yoga ideas, teacher humor & a whole lot of “yep, been there.” 🧘‍♀️✨

10/07/2026

POV: it’s October and your kids yoga teacher bag gets a little… spooky. 🕷️🎃👻

After 5,000+ classes, I’ve learned that the right prop can turn a simple yoga pose, breath or SEL concept into something kids talk about all the way home.

This month my bag is packed with all things bravery, movement & mindful Halloween fun. 🧡

But here’s the part you don’t see:

I don’t just bring these things out and hope for the best. 😂

Every prop, game and printable has a purpose inside the lesson.

And if you’re a kids yoga or mindfulness teacher thinking…

“Okay, but WHAT do you actually do with all of this?”

That’s exactly what I teach inside Teach Smarter™.

October’s I Am Brave curriculum gives you the lessons, games, SEL activities, mindfulness tools & printables I’m actually using with my own students, already planned FOR you!

Comment BRAVE and I’ll send you a peek inside. 🕷️🧡

P.S. Kids yoga teachers: what’s the weirdest thing currently living in YOUR teaching bag? 😂

TBH “Just be brave!” isn’t really a strategy… 😬🧡One of my goals when creating October’s I AM BRAVE curriculum was to hel...
10/06/2026

TBH “Just be brave!” isn’t really a strategy… 😬🧡

One of my goals when creating October’s I AM BRAVE curriculum was to help kids understand that bravery doesn’t mean ignoring fear or always pushing through it.

Sometimes a brave choice is trying one small step. Sometimes it’s watching first. Sometimes it’s asking a question, taking a break or getting help from someone you trust.

We notice what our body is telling us.
We choose what might help.
We begin with one safe step.

And then we practice those skills through movement, mindfulness, games and activities, like the From Fear to a Brave Choice Matching Game you see here! 🍂

The best part?

You don’t have to build the lesson around it. I already did that for you. 😘

This is just one piece of October’s complete I AM BRAVE curriculum inside Teach Smarter™

Want to see what else is included?

Comment BRAVE 🧡 and I’ll send you the link.

THIS is what I mean when I say kids can learn SEL through mindful movement! 👻🕷️🧡October inside Mindful Movement Kids™ is...
10/02/2026

THIS is what I mean when I say kids can learn SEL through mindful movement! 👻🕷️🧡

October inside Mindful Movement Kids™ is all about BRAVERY and this week my students get to experience one of the lessons I created for this month’s Teach Smarter™ curriculum.

There’s movement, calming creation art projects, and a LOT of imagination. 😂🕷️🤸

Underneath all of this play is a much deeper conversation about fear, bravery and what we can do when something feels hard!

This is exactly why I created Teach Smarter™.

I wanted educators to be able to walk into a room with thoughtful, engaging, developmentally appropriate lessons already planned FOR them… instead of spending hours trying to piece together yoga poses, SEL concepts, games, mindfulness activities and printables on their own. 😅

You don’t need more ideas…You deserve the time back that goes into planning to focus on the most important parts like teaching amazing classes, growing your community and being present with your students.

October’s I AM BRAVE curriculum is inside Teach Smarter™! 🍂🕷️🧡

Comment BRAVE and I’ll send you all the info on how to get get your time back. ✨🧘‍♀️🤸💓

I needed this reminder today… Being an entrepreneur, business owner, educator and creative means constantly living throu...
10/02/2026

I needed this reminder today…

Being an entrepreneur, business owner, educator and creative means constantly living through the ebbs and flows.

Some weeks I feel incredibly proud of what I’ve built.
Other weeks, I’m so focused on what isn’t growing fast enough, what needs fixing, what I should be doing better, or what comes next that I completely miss what is happening right in front of me.

And I can be really hard on myself.

But this photo brought me to tears today.

A year ago, I was teaching in this same gym and debating whether I should cancel this class altogether.

Month after month, I struggled to get just 5 kids enrolled.

I questioned whether families wanted it.
Whether I was putting my energy in the right place.
Whether it was worth continuing to show up.

Today, after being sick last week and honestly feeling downright in the dumps, I walked into that same gym to teach a sold-out class of 20 kids.

Same gym.
Same program.
Same dream.

Just one more year of showing up for it.

There wasn’t one magical moment that changed everything. It was the emails, the lesson planning, the marketing, the relationships, the classes with five kids, the days I questioned myself, and choosing to keep showing up anyway.

Sometimes growth is so gradual that you don’t realize it’s happening until you look back.

So if you’re building something right now and wondering whether all of your effort is actually leading anywhere, take a picture. Keep the receipts. Remember the rooms that once felt like they weren’t full enough…

Because one day, you might walk into one of those same rooms and realize:

You’re standing inside something an earlier version of you was trying very hard to build. 💓✨🧘‍♀️

And I think she’d be really proud!!! 🥹

October is basically the Super Bowl of kids yoga and I will not be taking questions at this time. 🎃😂🧘‍♀️Pumpkin poses, f...
10/02/2026

October is basically the Super Bowl of kids yoga and I will not be taking questions at this time. 🎃😂🧘‍♀️

Pumpkin poses, fall mindfulness, spooky yoga games, the coziest crafts, flashlights, and leaves on absolutely everything!!

Kids yoga teachers… we’ve been waiting all year for this…

😂🍂👻

Tell me your favorite month to teach 👇

Things that would horrify a non-kids yoga teacher… PART 2 🧘‍♀️💀😅Bringing out ONE new mindfulness prop and immediately he...
10/01/2026

Things that would horrify a non-kids yoga teacher… PART 2 🧘‍♀️

💀😅

Bringing out ONE new mindfulness prop and immediately hearing:

“WHEN DO WE GET TO USE THAT?!”
“Is it my turn?”
“What is it?”
“Can I hold it?”
“WHEN ARE WE USING IT?!”
Or worse… *puts object in mouth* 😭

Or watching a perfectly good yoga mat become a burrito, taco, fort, sled, blanket, tunnel… basically anything except a yoga mat…

And then there’s finally getting everyone settled into Savasana only to hear from across the room:

“I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM.”

But the one that really gets me?

You give the sweetest cue:

“Take a nice, slow breath in…”

…and somehow receive the most aggressive inhale known to mankind. 🙃

Kids yoga teachers, you already know. 😂

👇 Add one to the list: what would horrify a non-kids yoga teacher?

Save this for the next time you need proof that your class is, in fact, completely normal. 😂🧘‍♀️

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You bring me the theme, I’ll turn it into a mindful movement experience! ✨One of my favorite parts of running a mobile k...
09/29/2026

You bring me the theme, I’ll turn it into a mindful movement experience! ✨

One of my favorite parts of running a mobile kids yoga & mindfulness studio is that I don’t have to bring the exact same class everywhere I go.

A school might be working on an SEL skill.
A library might be celebrating a favorite book.
A preschool might have a monthly classroom theme.
A community program might be planning a special event.

And I get to ask:

How can we make kids experience it?!

For a theme like The Color Monster, that can mean bringing together storytelling, yoga, movement, mindfulness, emotion identification and a hands-on calming tool kids can actually use.

The result isn’t just a yoga class…

It’s an experience designed specifically around what that group is learning.

And yes — I can create custom programming for your organization, too. 💕

Schools, libraries, preschools, community education programs, museums and other Twin Cities organizations can reach out with a theme, book, SEL goal or event idea, and we can build from there.

Have an idea you’ve been wanting to bring to life? DM me “CUSTOM” and tell me what you’re imagining. 🧘‍♀️✨🤸

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