When I am stressed, yoga helps me to relax and regain my focus. It makes me feel cool, calm and confident.
- Linda, Grade 4

Mindful Practices empowers teachers
and students through yoga and wellness
to create a better learning environment.
Mindful Practices brings a student-centered and culturally relevant approach to wellness education. The organization features educators, social workers, dancers and administrators who display versatility in their approach to engaging teachers, students and communities from all walks of life.
Our Programs
Mindful Practices offers extensive and engaging programming for school districts, such as recess, after school and social-emotional learning programs, and professional development workshops.
Cooling Down Your Classroom Curriculum Guide
Mindful Practices definitive yoga and wellness classroom management guide offers over 190 pages of Yoga-centered wellness designed for teachers interested in cultivating a relaxed classroom environment. Strategies teach students skills that help them recognize and mindfully address their internal and external stressors, thus encouraging higher productivity and focused classroom behavior.
Bring wellness and yoga to your classroom today!
Quiet a rowdy classroom. Energize drowsy students. Relax, breath, and return to a positive learning environment in minutes.
News
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Mindful Practices is so excited to be a part of Yoga Rocks the Park!
May 20, 2013
Mindful Practices is so excited to be a part of Yoga Rocks the Park! Mindful Practices empowers teachers and students through yoga and wellness to create a better learning environment. Through programs like CoolCorps, Cool and Calm Yoga, Hip-Hop Yoga, Kindness Lab, Yoga Defense, YogaPoms, and YogaBeat, Mindful Practices brings a student-centered and culturally relevant approach to wellness education. Participants at Yoga Rocks the Park will experience the instructors of Mindful Practices who display versatility in their approach to engaging youth and communities from all walks of life. We believe everyone has the knowledge, resources and opportunities to be physically and mentally well and to achieve their highest potential. Let's get ready to have some fun!
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Mindful Practices Helps Chicago Fire Foundation Launch P.L.A.Y.S. Program
March 28, 2013
Mindful Practices is pleased to share the announcement for the launch of the Chicago Fire Foundation P.L.A.Y.S. program (Participate, Learn, Achieve Youth Soccer), a first of its kind program that integrates soccer with social and emotional learning. In collaboration with World Sport Chicago, the Chicago Fire Foundation, Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), University of North Carolina, and The University of Chicago, Mindful Practices developed the social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that focuses on using sport to instill "grit" as a means to grow social and emotional learning skills of youth.The 10-week P.L.A.Y.S. program will kickoff in eight AUSL schools throughout Chicago.
Visit Chicago Fire Foundation's Website for Full Program Details
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YogaInMySchool.com Gives Cooling Down The Classroom a Glowing Review + Book Giveaway!
March 14, 2013
Yogainmyschool.com recently reviewed Mindful Practices’ yoga and wellness classroom management guide, Cooling Down Your Classroom. Here's what they had to say, "WOW! Cooling Down Your Classroom by Carla Tantillo (of Mindful Practices) is a highly impressive school resource which makes it easy to integrate yoga skills into the classroom. As soon as I opened the 190+ page book I was greeted by a plethora of lessons plans and worksheets which can be immediately used in the classroom. Upon delving further I was impressed with the clear layout and fun graphics along with a wealth of substantiating information and resources of the benefits of yoga for school aged children."
Head on over to YogaInMySchool.com to read the full Cooling Down Your Classroom book review and enter to win a copy of the book. The giveaway entry deadline is Friday, March 22 at 9:00 PM MST.
Read Full Review | Buy Cooling Down Your Classroom | Visit Yogainmyschool.com
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Mindful Practices’ Founder, Carla Tantillo, Featured in Origin Magazine!
March 7, 2013
Mindful Practices is very pleased to announce that our founder, Carla Tantillo, has been featured in the March/April 2013 edition of Origin Magazine! Head to your local Whole Foods or Barnes and Noble, pick up a copy and flip the magazine open to page 60. Carla appears alongside fellow yogis interested in making a positive impact on the world in the Community Leaders: What’s Your Vision? section.
All of us at Mindful Practices would like to thank Origin Magazine for shining the spotlight on our vision in this month’s issue. We are truly grateful and honored!
You can pick up the physical magazine at Whole Foods or Barnes & Noble. You can purchase the digital copy on Origin Magazine’s website
Upcoming Events
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- 5/30/13
- Summer of Learning Conference
- Decatur, IL
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- 7/7-11/13
- International Association of Special Education – 13th Biennial Conference: “1, 2, 3, Breath: Using Yoga and Relaxation to Create an Inclusive Classroom Culture”
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- 7/11-13/13
- NAESP’s 2013 Annual Conference – Creating a ‘Cool’ School Environment: The Intersection Between School Wellness and Leadership”
- Baltimore, MD

























