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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

te calm in our communities, building a culture of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Nurturing and strengthening the "I iN All" - the inner-woven nature of our own minds and bodies, the interwoven nature of our Universe and the power we have to heal and grow together. INA Wellness offers private and group yoga & mindfulness classes, educational training and workshops, and programs to provide you with tools to unlock your inner greatness and to better connect with and strengthen yourself and your community. Discover the benefits and joy of learning through yoga and mindfulness with INA Wellness and help build a community of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Donate yoga and mindfulness programs to schools and organizations by giving to Create Calm, a section 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of INA Wellness. INA Wellness -- the Know-How to connect with your own inner goodness and joy and the tools to inspire it in others.

04/22/2026

🌎 What if caring for the Earth started with how we care for ourselves?

When we slow our breath, soften our bodies, and feel grounded, something shifts.
We move with more intention.
We choose with more awareness.
We begin to treat the world around us with the same care we are learning to give within.
Earth Day is not just about doing more.
It is about being more connected.
Step outside.
Take a breath.
Feel your feet on the ground.
This is where calm begins.
This is where change begins.

💚 How are you connecting with the Earth today?

04/22/2026

04/21/2026

Teacher Tuesday spotlight ✨

Meet the heart behind Create Calm, our CEO and Founder, (Lisa Danahy).

With over 35 years in education, Lisa has dedicated her life to helping children and the adults who support them feel safe, seen, and supported. Her work reminds us that regulation is not something we demand from others. It is something we model, practice, and embody. This is how classrooms change. This is how lives change.

04/20/2026

You are so brave… but what if it doesn’t always feel that way?

Follow along with one of our students as he shares a powerful meditation and the moments he leans on it most.
Because sometimes, feeling safe in your body changes everything.

As he so beautifully reminds us, these Create Calm strategies help us feel safe… and without that, “it wouldn’t be a nice world.”

Simple tools. Real impact. From the voices that matter most.

💛 Tap in, try it, and notice what shifts.

04/16/2026

Check out our CEO's latest podcast!

• Loved today’s show! Guest host Kathryn Collins spoke with Lisa Danahy, founder of Create Calm, to unpack what it really means to support a child’s emotional and behavioural regulation.

𝐒𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 - 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐬, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ... 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

Lisa offers a meaningful shift in perspective… moving from trying to control behaviour to creating the conditions where children feel safe enough to learn how to regulate themselves.

Key points:
💥 Why discipline needs to be redefined
💥 The role of movement, breath, and the nervous system
💥 Why children need us to model the skills we expect from them
💥 How “testing limits” is actually a sign of trust and growth
💥 Simple, practical ways to build regulation before challenging moments happen

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧… 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.

Enjoy this short clip. The full conversation can be found on your favourite podcast app or through the link in my bio or the comments.

04/14/2026

Scientific evidence of the power of co-regulation…

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Reading to your baby isn’t about teaching them to read…it’s about building their brain 🧠✨

Even before they understand the words, something powerful is happening:

📚 Every story strengthens neural connections (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000)
🗣️ Every word builds early language (Weisleder & Fernald, 2013)
❤️ Every cuddle creates safety and connection (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2014)

Research shows that babies who are read to regularly develop stronger vocabulary, better attention, and early literacy skills later on (Mol et al., 2008; Duursma et al., 2008).

But just as important…

It’s the feeling.

Your voice.
Your presence.
The rhythm of being close together.

This is how babies learn:
Not just through words—but through connection (Grolnick & Slowiaczek, 1994).

So if your baby wiggles, chews the book, or crawls away halfway through…
it still counts 🤍

04/13/2026

Monday Mindfulness via

Conscious breathing is one of the most powerful transformative tools available to us, yet even with the tremendous popularity of yoga today, it is largely untapped. People are astonished to realize they don’t really know how to breathe. Of course everyone reading this right now is inhaling and exhaling, but it doesn’t mean that they’re breathing in a way that’s going to significantly impact them.

Here are some of the health benefits of conscious breathing:

• Stronger lungs with vastly increased capacity
• A healthier heart and stronger diaphragm
• In many cases, the ability to heal asthma and also release the habit of smoking
• The nervous system is calmed, diminishing stress, lowering one’s blood pressure and heart rate, and thereby improving sleep and maintaining a more-enhanced mental state while awake
• Enables us to identify and heal emotional wounds from our past

Making breathing practices a part of your daily life will initiate meaningful transformation.

04/09/2026

Throwing it back to a room full of hearts ready to change the way we show up for children. 💛

Last March, Lisa Danahy led our Foundations training, where educators, caregivers, and professionals came together to learn what it really means to create calm, not control.

Because when we understand the nervous system, everything shifts.
Classrooms soften.
Connections deepen.
And regulation becomes something we practice together.

This is the work. And this is the ripple. ✨
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, consider this your sign.

Your presence matters more than you know.

04/08/2026

Get • Breathing Healing 🧘🏼🧘🏽‍♀️

Breathe to calm. Breathe to energise. Breathe to connect. Breathe to ground. Breathe to heal.

What an immaculate tool we have at our fingertips, available to us in this moment, and this moment, and this.

✨
Send yourself love to every part of your body with your next deep breath and remember: you are the medicine.

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04/07/2026

Stop. Take a breath with me. 🤍

Teaching Tuesday reminder:

Calm isn’t something we tell others to do… it’s something we practice and model.
Before the words, before the instruction, before the “fixing”… there’s presence.

When we ground ourselves, slow the breath, and soften the body, we become the steady place others can meet us.

This is the work.
This is the practice.
This is where real change begins.

✨ Try this today:
Pause. Inhale wide. Exhale slow. Notice what shifts.

04/02/2026

Not every child experiences the world the same way… and that’s exactly the point. 💙

On World Autism Awareness Day, we are reminded that inclusion is not about asking children to fit in. It is about creating spaces where they feel safe, seen, and supported just as they are.

At Create Calm, this is the heart of our work.
Through mindful movement, breath, and co-regulation, we support children with autism and neurodiverse learners in building connection, confidence, and a sense of belonging, without pressure, without labels, and without needing to change who they are.

Because when a child feels safe in their body, everything shifts. Focus grows. Relationships deepen. Joy becomes possible.

Today, and every day, we choose to move beyond awareness and into action. Into understanding. Into inclusion.

Let’s not just teach children how to fit into the world.
Let’s build a world that fits them.

💙 Join us in creating calmer, more inclusive spaces for every child.

04/02/2026

Not every child experiences the world the same way… and that’s exactly the point. 💙

On World Autism Awareness Day, we are reminded that inclusion is not about asking children to fit in. It is about creating spaces where they feel safe, seen, and supported just as they are.

At Create Calm, this is the heart of our work.
Through mindful movement, breath, and co-regulation, we support children with autism and neurodiverse learners in building connection, confidence, and a sense of belonging, without pressure, without labels, and without needing to change who they are.
Because when a child feels safe in their body, everything shifts.

Focus grows. Relationships deepen. Joy becomes possible. Today, and every day, we choose to move beyond awareness and into action. Into understanding. Into inclusion.
Let’s not just teach children how to fit into the world.

Let’s build a world that fits them.

💙 Join us in creating calmer, more inclusive spaces for every child.

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