Celebrate the Human Spirit!

Together We Have the Tools and Creativity to Help Youth to Flourish

We are a resilient species! It’s been a difficult few years in education, but it’s important to note that in the face of adversity negative outcomes are not certain and are often overcome. In fact, human history has many examples of how various cultures have cultivated resilience and post‐traumatic growth through community practices that address physical, mental, and emotional needs.

Safety is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of connection.
– Dr Gabor Mate

Join health and wellness pioneers Lynea and Jim Gillen to learn how to build resilience through personal and collective practices that utilize time-tested tools, insights and wisdom from decades of creative work. Yes, together, we can support health, hope and happiness and create a positive future for our children.

Developing Skills, Inspiring Hope

Drawing on her personal experiences, studies with diverse cultures, and 50+ years of supporting youth as a schoolteacher, counselor, clinician, children’s book author and founder of Yoga Calm, Lynea will share empowering activities that help youth tap into their inner strengths and wisdom, expand their sense of community with each other and the natural world, and envision and create the world they want to live in.

Lynea will also review the five elements of post-traumatic growth, and how to apply Polyvagal theory and tools for self-regulation and incorporate these into the lives of students, clients, parents and staff in practical and effective ways.

In addition, you will learn how to use yoga‐based movement, mindfulness exercises, and social/emotional development practices in a variety of settings—including busy school days— to help students develop self‐confidence, physical health, and emotional intelligence.

Relax, Refresh, Renew

Complementing Lynea’s expertise in working with youth, Jim will share teacher self-care practices from his 25 years of teaching yoga and mindfulness, as well as the latest health and wellness research and personal insights from publishing hundreds of blog posts. To reinforce your self-care practice Jim will also provide a downloadable daily yoga practice.

While in the peaceful gardens and yoga studio of their SW Portland home, you will experience Lynea and Leah Shuyler’s Earth Warriors environmental education curriculum. You’ll also see how Jim and Lynea ameliorate fear with action by incorporating sustainability solutions into their daily life with heat pumps, rainwater collection systems, passive air conditioning, edible gardens, electric cars and the planting of over 100 trees.

What Else You Will Learn

• Practical ways to attune to the needs of your students, while honoring and caring for yourself in the process, including a suite of self-care practices and daily classroom activities that create a healthy and welcoming learning environment.
• How to destigmatize our natural survival mechanisms (fight, flight & freeze) and use the latest research in polyvagal theory and Lynea’s experiences developmental trauma to proactively reduce stress and the need for extreme interventions, and then skillfully respond when needed.
• How to use the EMPOWER program (free with workshop registration) to creatively integrate brain science education, movement, mindfulness and social/emotional learning to help youth reduce stress and develop lifelong health and wellness skills.
• How to move beyond ACEs by focusing on resiliency, strength and the “blessings” of post-traumatic growth.
• Love, Knowledge and Action—A simple yet powerful approach to instill hope in dealing with environmental issues.
• Classroom management techniques for dysregulated students. How parents can distinguish between tantrums and triggers and why we often need to “release” first before we can soothe.

By integrating this knowledge and healthy physical, mental, and emotional practices into daily life, students, staff and families can reduce daily stress. and develop resilience and hope.

Together, let’s create a circle of love, beauty and support… And then live in it!

Over $100 in Free Bonus Resources Included with Your Registration

• Yoga Calm for Children handbook
• Lifetime access to Empower program with each registration
• Earth Warriors curriculum handbook
• Mindful Moment Cards and Little Banty Chicken and Big Dream (children’s book about gratitude and building community)
• Heart of the Teacher yoga class download

More Details

Live, in-Person Course

August 19-20, 2023
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Still Moving Yoga in SW Portland, OR

$300 Registration Fee ($350 after July 19, 2023), includes lunches

Certificate of Completion provided, documenting 12 Clock hours and CEUs

$50 Discount for Certified Yoga Calm Instructors. Contact registration@yogacalm.org  for discount code.

10% Group discount for groups of three or more. Contact registration@yogacalm.org for registration information.

Purchase orders accepted. Send PO to registration@yogacalm.org along with registrant names and email addresses.

Cancellation/Refund Policy  

Instructors

Lynea Gillen, LPC, RYT, is an award‐winning author, speaker and pioneer in the field of health and wellness education for youth.

From its development in a behavior classroom in 2000 in a rural Oregon elementary school, her accredited Yoga Calm program is now being used with tens of thousands of children each day in diverse settings, such Head Start programs, urban classrooms, occupational therapy clinics, children and teen psychiatric units at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, and at the Mayo Clinic.

Early tragedies and trauma in Lynea’s life led her to yoga at the age of 16. And for the next 50+ years Lynea developed practical methods to share yoga and other heart‐centered tools that she created to help youth in her roles as a schoolteacher, counselor, clinician and college professor.

Developing emotional literacy, community and resilience are the hallmarks of Lynea’s approach and are exemplified in her award‐winning books and media: Yoga Calm for Children, Mindful Moments Cards, Good People Everywhere, Little Banty Chicken and, her latest, Little Book of Healing: A Coloring Book for Grief and Loss.

In addition to her current practice as a child and family counselor in Portland, Oregon, as an adjunct professor at Portland State University and Lewis & Clark College, Lynea created a dozen courses in Curriculum & Instruction, Counseling, and Special Education.

Lynea is also a licensed professional counselor, holds an MS in counseling in education from PSU, is a Tension/Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) Global Trainer, and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.

Jim Gillen, ERYT-500, is an innovator in the fields of business, environmental education and health and wellness.

Paralleling his practice of yoga & mindfulness for the last 50 years, he has taught adaptive sports for special needs children, pioneered environmental education programs for the National Science Foundation, led a $250 million dollar bond campaign for Oregon Parks, supported the acquisition of natural areas with Metro Greenspaces, received nine national awards as a book author and publisher, and co-developed 12 graduate-level courses in health and wellness education.

Jim still actively teaches at Still Moving Yoga in SW Portland and is editor of the Yoga Calm Blog when he’s not chasing his daughter around the soccer field or basketball court.