Are you a school leader who has folks wanting to come and share yoga with your students and staff, but you…
✔️ don’t have the time
✔️ lack yoga expertise
✔️ struggle to differentiate between teachers, programs, and what they’re offering?
We’ve got you covered. I’m Emily Fleming, founder of Yoga in Classrooms & Schools Consulting.
Our
Values:
Yoga In Classrooms and Schools Consulting works directly with schools and school districts to develop tailor-made, impactful, and long-term yoga and mindfulness programming for students, staff, and families
through a model of long-term coaching and support, cross-curricular integration and the creation of culturally relevant programming aligned to the needs, values, and goals of the school community.
Meet Our Founder
Emily Fleming (MAT, RYT500, RCYT) is a dynamic yoga teacher and educator based in Baltimore, MD. A graduate of Colby College ’12 and National Louis University ’14, where she received her Masters of Arts in Teaching, Emily first stepped into the classroom as a Teach For America corps member teaching Special Education at a charter school in Chicago, IL. Emily taught yoga to middle school students at The Crossroads School, a charter school in Baltimore, MD for eight years. Her journey to serving in this capacity speaks to her steadfast belief in the power manifested through following your heart. Emily was the first to create her role as the school’s Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, and while in this role, she has developed a comprehensive three-year curriculum that uses yoga and mindfulness to explore and enhance student self-management, empathy, and community relationships.
Believing that yoga is one of few ways in which society can create more opportunities for children to thrive in education and in life, the range of Emily’s experience as an in-school yoga and mindfulness teacher and leader is extensive. She offers more than ten years of classroom teaching experience and eight years of hands-on practice working with K-12 students and staff in the areas of yoga and mindfulness, both in-person and virtually.
When I started teaching yoga and mindfulness as a class, I was desperately searching for a yoga / mindfulness curriculum that I could use with my urban middle school students.
I searched, but I never found one! All the programs I came across were either geared towards elementary or high school students, or weren’t culturally relevant to my students.
They felt so disconnected from the actual day-to-day in my classroom, so I decided to develop my own 3-year curriculum.
When designing my curriculum I took into account the existing values of our school, the needs of our students, and all the ways that these practices might begin to feel more relevant to them.
What arose is a comprehensive, 3-year curriculum, that builds from year to year.
I believe that yoga is one of few ways in which society can create more opportunities for children to thrive in education and in life.
I have the unique experience of being both a certified educator and a certified yoga teacher.
I’ve spent years teaching yoga as a daily enrichment class in a school settings I’ve watched our school community foster a school culture of mindfulness organically as a result.
As a teacher, I know how ineffective one-off trainings can be, which is why I’m committed to our model of coaching and feedback, and why we ask schools to sign year-long contracts.
I’ve worked with kids yoga teachers from across the country and supported them in bringing yoga into their schools / classrooms, and am aware of the pain points they face in terms of getting in the door, navigating budgets, and more.
I’m an empath, a supporter, a chocolate lover, but also, I’m on a mission to bring yoga and mindfulness into schools across the country in a more sustainable and impactful way.
I’ve seen how my students have benefited from these practices. I’ve seen how teachers have benefitted from these practices. I’ve seen how I’ve benefited from these practices (hello, holding space for feelings and self-regulating emotions).
Yoga and mindfulness aren’t add-ons,
they’re integral aspects of supporting the wellbeing of teachers, students, and families, and they should be treated as such.
That’s what we’re on a mission to do:
support you in creating more intentional and impactful yoga and mindfulness programming that will benefit your school community for years to come.
