Thank You For A Summer of Mindfulness and Connection!

Thank you to the Inner Kids community for a beautiful summer of mindfulness and connection!

We began as an all-volunteer, grass-roots initiative with a mission to help families cope with COVID-19 by offering daily online mindfulness lessons that teach the crucial life skills of attention, balance, and compassion. Along with our mission to put children and families first, we didn't record or post lessons online, nor did we scale our project in a way that would compromise children's safety or diminish the intimacy of our classes. We were committed to offering classes for free or on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis.

And we did it!

Over the past ten weeks, we offered more than 150 classes and reached thousands of families across the world from places as far flung as Brazil, Scotland, Kansas City, and everywhere in between while keeping our classes small and connected.

As we shift away from this COVID-19 offering, I have nothing but gratitude for my fellow founding members in this heartfelt labor of love, especially my co-steering committee members Kelly Barron and Laurie Cousins. I’m also grateful to the community of mindful friends who supported us in this initiative. Mostly though, a giant thank you to the children and families who practiced with us this Summer.

I will take August off for an at-home retreat with my family and am confident that the fond memories of the children and families I met this summer will stay with me.

I'll be back to work in the Fall.

In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful Summer.