Wellbeing
MY Path: Mindfulness & Yoga for Emotional Growth
6 Days
Daniela Luz
Set in the idyllic surroundings of Ferragudo Beach in the Algarve, this gentle yet transformative course is designed to support school teachers in reconnecting with their emotional landscape through the healing practices of yoga, mindfulness, and embodied presence. MY Path (Mindfulness + Yoga) is an invitation to pause, breathe, move, and listen, so that educators can nourish their own well-being while becoming grounded, emotionally resilient guides for their students.
The focus is not on perfecting a posture or becoming a yoga expert. Instead, it’s about using mindfulness and movement to better understand your emotional world, respond to stress with awareness, and return to your teaching life with clarity, compassion, and intention.
Important Information About the Structure of Our Trainings
Our trainings are thoughtfully designed to provide both collective learning and space for personal integration. Each course is structured around a common core of 30 hours, with 3 hours of guided group sessions each morning. In the afternoons, participants are invited to complete 2 hours of self-paced, asynchronous tasks that are specifically tailored to the focus of the course they are enrolled in.
Please note that some of these trainings may be delivered in parallel with other programs under the same overarching theme, meaning that while participants share the morning sessions as a collective group, the afternoon practices and assignments are uniquely designed for each course’s objectives.
These asynchronous tasks might include reflection exercises, creative assignments, or the development of a practical resource that links the morning content to the core topic of your specific training.
This blended model ensures a rich learning journey that supports both deep connection with the group and individual autonomy, empowering each participant to embody the teachings in a way that resonates with their path.
We kindly ask you to embrace the structure with presence and commitment, knowing that this combination of shared experience and personal practice is a powerful container for transformation.
Learning Outcomes
Participants to the course will learn to:
Learn the foundations of mindfulness and how it supports emotional awareness
Cultivate self-regulation through movement, breath, and presence
Use yoga as a tool for reflection, emotional clarity, and nervous system balance
Build confidence in bringing short, trauma-informed practices into their school life
Strengthen their connection to self and others through compassion-based tools
Design a personal well-being plan that supports emotional sustainability as an educator
Programme
MY Path: Mindfulness & Yoga for Emotional Growth
Day 1: Begin Within – Awareness & Grounding
Welcome Circle & Introduction to MY Path framework
Gentle Yoga for Grounding + Mindfulness Anchor Practice
Emotional Mapping: “Where am I, and where do I long to feel more balance?”
Present Moment Practices: Noticing, allowing, anchoring
Reflection Circle + Intention Setting
Self-Paced Tasks:
Journaling: “What am I truly needing right now?”
Practice: Mindful breathing pause x3 today
Creative Task: Draw your emotional landscape as a map
Day 2: Breath & Body – Regulation & Energy Reset
Yoga Flow: Breath-led movement to release emotional tension
Breathwork Toolkit: Coherent breathing, soft belly breath, sigh breath
Understanding Stress in the Educator’s Nervous System
Group Reflection: Emotional patterns in teaching
Self-Paced Tasks:
Journaling Prompt: “What does a regulated teacher feel like?”
Practice: Choose 2 breath techniques and apply them twice
Design: Your own 5-minute breath & stretch reset for the classroom
Day 3: Emotional Flow – Listening with Compassion
Somatic Yoga Practice: Movement as emotional language
Meditation: Feeling Without Fixing – Welcoming Emotions
Co-Regulation Tools for Classroom Calm
Emotional Resilience Circle: Shared experience, collective holding
Self-Paced Tasks:
Journaling: “What emotion am I learning to hold more gently?”
Practice: Embodied pause + soft breath 2–3 times during the day
Resource: Write 3 calming phrases or gestures for use in school
Day 4: Inner Connection – Teaching from Wholeness
Yoga for the Heart & Hips: Movement for release and insight
Self-Compassion Meditation: Loving awareness for the inner educator
Visualization: Your Most Resourced Self at School
Reflection & Partner Dialogue: What does emotional growth mean for me?
Self-Paced Tasks:
Journaling: “What part of me needs more kindness?”
Practice: Self-compassion breath ritual
Creative Task: Create a self-kindness affirmation card
Day 5: Integration – Living the Path
Restorative Yoga + Grounding Meditation
Designing Your Daily Emotional Well-being Practice
Group Coaching Dialogue: Integrating mindfulness in school life
Final Gratitude Circle & Intention Ceremony
Self-Paced Tasks:
Journaling: “What inspired me in this course and in life—and how will I carry this forward into my daily school routine?”
Personal Action Plan: Weekly rhythm for breath, body, and reflection
Final Letter to Self: “I teach best when I…”
Day 6: Boat Visit to the most stunning caves and beaches of the Algarve or Light Mindfulness Walk along the coast
Integration, contemplation in full presence
*Please note: Boat visits depend on the season and weather availability.
Self-Paced Task:
Journaling: “What inspired me in this course and in life and how will I carry this forward into my daily school routine?”
This course is your invitation to walk your own path: mindfully, emotionally, and embodied, so you can lead with presence, connect with empathy, and teach from a place of balance and authenticity.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Course participants will receive training and engage in exercises designed to develop their skills as trainers. The provision of additional materials or resources will be determined based on the course structure and the instructor’s approach to meeting the learning objectives
Course package content:
Services and activities included in the course package are those described above. Please note that accommodation, transport, and meals are not provided.
Cancellation & changes:
Common sense prevails when it comes to cancellations, which are analyzed on a case-by-case basis.