Shift for Wellness Jennifer Caputo

As we continue to experience COVID-19 and racial injustice in our world, these tools will help you during this critical time in our history and they will help you during a critical time in your personal life.  I’m going to teach you how you can contribute to your own personal welfare and to the welfare of our nation at large by helping you to create space in your body and movement in the world to unblock limiting beliefs like fear, guilt, worry, and shame.

Listen in to hear how school psychologist, Barbara McIntyre, shares how she works with teachers on implementing yoga and mindfulness into the instructional part of the school day.

Listen in to hear how school nurse, Pat Faris and her colleagues, developed a successful and comprehensive wellness committee that has evolved and shifted to meet the needs of staff, students, and the community at large over the years.

I feel overwhelmed as an educator...so this was nice to be able to go to this training and learn about social and emotional learning and just be able to implement it in small ways, daily. - Maggie Reilly

As the Sussex County Teacher of the Year with a platform for embedding yoga and mindfulness into the daily classroom instruction, it's become my mission to seek out other teachers in the county who are making tremendous shifts in the learning process for kids.  While I accept this honor very graciously, I also acknowledge the fact that there are many other teachers in the county who deserve to be highlighted for implementing the same practices. Listen in to hear how 3rd-grade teacher, Stephanie DiIonno, shares the practice of mindfulness with her students.

Are you a good listener? Part IV speaks to mindful communication and what our body language says about how we feel while speaking and listening to others. Shift your perspective to choose calm. Choose ease. Work toward living mindfully during this challenging time... and always. xo