YMTPP

The Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Preparation Program (YMTP²) was created by a group of New York City Department of Education educators as the nation’s first Yoga Alliance certified yoga and mindfulness school owned by a local education agency through the NYCDOE.

We constructed the theory of Mindful Behavior(ism) in the summer of 2018 to answer the essential question: How might each individual who enters a schoolhouse everyday choose to behave in a manner that affirms the humanity of each being?

Our first cohort that graduated and was certified as yoga and mindfulness instructors in December 2019 was comprised of a diverse of group of NYCDOE employees including Executive Directors of the Borough Offices, Student Service Directors, Counseling Managers, Attendance Managers, Crisis Managers, Teaching and Learning staff, Central-based staff, School-based Students in Temporary Housing staff, Mental Health Supervisors, Mental Health Consultants, Early Childhood (CPSE) staff. Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams graciously funded our first cohort of these 30 participants.