Mindfulness and Yoga in Schools A Guide for Teachers and Practitioners

CHAPTER 13: SCHool-BASEd YogA PRogRAMS • 311

Program WebPage brief DescriPtion

Lineage

Project

lineageproject.org The Lineage Project offers mindfulness practices

for youth at risk (grades 6 to 12). Founded by

Soren Gordhamer, the program utilizes yoga and

meditation techniques with disenfranchised youth

in New York City to help break the cycle of poverty,

violence, and incarceration. They offer programs

in detention centers, alternative-to-incarceration

programs, alternative schools, subsidized housing,

and other community sites. Workshops and

trainings are offered. The teacher training is a

20-hour program that prepares teachers to use

mindfulness and yoga techniques in their communities

and schools.

Mindful

Practices

Yoga

mindful

practicesyoga.com

Mindful Practices offers mindfulness and yoga

programming for school districts. The program includes

professional development workshops as well as toolkits

for teachers. The programs can be modified for special

education. The founder, Carla Tantillo Philibert, has

a background in education, presents nationally and

internationally, and has written three books, Cooling

Down Your Classroom, Everyday SEL in Elementary

School, and Everyday SEL for Middle School (Philibert,

2016a; Philibert, 2016b; Tantillo, 2012). There are

also large, laminated pose cards for sale to assist with

classroom yoga activities.

Move-into-

Learning

Program

m.youtube

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Provides eight, weekly, 45-minute sessions of yoga,

meditation, and breathing exercises set to music

along with opportunities for self-expression through

writing and visual arts. Focus is on children’s hyperactive

behavior, with a reported resultant decrease in

symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

(ADHD) and inattentiveness according to teacher

observations.

Movement

and

Mindfulness

move-with-me

.com/shop/

movement

-mindfulness

-curriculum/

The program integrates stories, exercise, and self-

regulation to build fitness, focus, and learning

readiness. The curriculum includes lesson plans for

30 weeks with over 200 movement and mindfulness

building activities (stories, cooperative games,

mindfulness activities, and music). It also includes nine

yoga/movement video classes, 16 skill flash cards, a

poster, and three CDs. The program is for kindergarten

and first grade.

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