Create Calm - INA Wellness

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Yoga and mindfulness education that supports learning and builds strength, health, joy, resilience, and peace. Sometime you just need to know how.

Offering yoga instruction, meditation, training, counseling, coaching, and integrative wellness for individuals and communities. Everyone has the capacity for unconditional health and happiness. Everyone has the innate ability to feel true goodness and joy. When we help just one person connect with their own potential for health and happiness, we help them connect to the world around them and crea

06/22/2026

Check out Lisa Danahy latest podcast feature!

Get Repost App β€’ Horizon Shift Lab The purpose of educators in the Age of AI.

06/19/2026

Today history via VIOLA DAVIS

Remembering that we were set free....from all restrictions! Remembering those who fought, raised their voices, disrupted? DIED for our emancipation. I raise a glass to our beautiful, glorious ancestors with a hearty.....HAPPY JUNETEENTH!!!!!!!! β€οΈπŸ–€πŸ’š

06/15/2026

✨ What if the skills that strengthen your relationships with others could also transform the relationship you have with yourself?

In this podcast conversation, our founder and executive director, Lisa Danahy, shares powerful insights about connection, regulation, and what it means to show up fully in our relationships.

The truth is, these skills aren't something we're simply born knowing. They can be learned, practiced, and strengthened.

That is exactly what the Foundations of Therapeutic Yoga for Children training is designed to do.

You'll leave with:
πŸ’™ The science behind nervous system regulation
πŸ’™ Practical tools you can use immediately
πŸ’™ Mindfulness and movement practices that support connection
πŸ’™ Skills that enhance your work, your relationships, and your own wellbeing

Whether you're an educator, therapist, caregiver, parent, or simply someone looking to create more calm in your life, this training offers a toolbox you'll return to again and again.

🎧 Listen to the clip.
✨ Imagine what's possible.
πŸ”— Learn more about Foundations through the link in bio.

06/12/2026

What if professional development helped you reconnect with your own joy while learning skills that can transform the lives of children?

This video was captured during our Foundations Training, where participants experience mindfulness through both movement and stillness. The practices are engaging, evidence-informed, and designed to support nervous system regulation, emotional wellbeing, connection, and learning.

One of the most meaningful pieces of feedback we receive is that participants leave feeling more informed, more connected, and more joyful.

Foundations is a comprehensive training in developmentally appropriate, whole-child-centered practices that can be applied in classrooms, therapeutic settings, community programs, and at home. Participants gain both an understanding of the science behind regulation and a practical toolbox of strategies they can immediately put into practice.

When adults experience regulation, connection, and belonging themselves, they are better equipped to create those conditions for the children they serve.

That's the power of this work.

06/10/2026

Empathy is one of the most useful skills we can develop for wellness and connection. We can’t force it we have to nurture and practice it…

Get β€’ .official What if the most important subject in school isn’t math, science, or reading but empathy?

Brilliant Share By: Kumud Deepali Rudraraju, SHRM CP

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What if the most important subject in school isn’t math, science, or reading… but empathy?

Since 1993, Denmark has required every child aged 6-16 to take a weekly empathy class.

Not as an add-on. Not as a nice-to-have.
As a core part of education.

The outcome?
🌍 Among the lowest bullying rates in the world
🌱 Consistently high kindness and well-being scores
🀝 A culture where emotional intelligence is as valued as academic achievement

It raises a powerful question for all of us; parents, leaders, educators, and employers:
Are we teaching the next generation how to understand each other, not just outperform each other?

In a world driven by competition, Denmark chose connection. And it’s paying off.
Imagine if more school systems did the same.
Imagine if more workplaces did the same.
Empathy isn’t soft.
Empathy is a skill.

And it might just be one of the most future-proof ones we can teach.

Should empathy be a required part of education or maybe even workplace everywhere? What do you think?

Share this post to help spread the empathy πŸ’œ

06/09/2026

With Positively Healthy Coaching – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! πŸŽ‰

06/09/2026

🚨 Children are struggling. Are we giving them the tools they actually need?

Self-regulation. Resilience. Confidence. Connection.

Our Therapeutic Yoga for Children Training equips educators, therapists, yoga teachers, counselors, and caregivers with practical, evidence-informed tools to help children thrive.

✨ Brain-body science
✨ Emotional regulation
✨ Mindfulness techniques
✨ Trauma-sensitive approaches
✨ Earn CEUs

πŸ“… June 23 - July 21, 2026
πŸ’» Live on Zoom + Homestudy
πŸ’² Special tuition: $485

The children need support.

Let's make sure the adults have the tools.

πŸ”— ChildrensYoga.com

06/08/2026

🌈 PRIDE IS MORE THAN A CELEBRATION. IT'S A REMINDER. 🌈

A reminder that every person deserves to feel safe, seen, valued, and loved exactly as they are.
At Create Calm, we believe that belonging is not a privilege, it's a human need. When children and adults feel accepted for who they are, they can learn, grow, connect, and thrive.

This Pride Month, we celebrate the courage it takes to live authentically, the power of community, and the beauty that comes from embracing our differences.
May we continue creating spaces where everyone feels welcome, every voice is heard, and every heart knows it belongs. β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ’œ

06/06/2026

Your nervous system called. πŸ“ž

It doesn't need another cup of coffee.
It needs you to shake it out.
Stretch. Wiggle. Dance. Bounce.

Thirty seconds of movement can help release tension and remind your body it's safe.

Weekend assignment: less overthinking, more shaking. πŸ’™

06/03/2026

Authenticity, kindness, creativity, humility…good energy attracts good energy - that’s co- regulation in action.

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