Integrated Mindfulness & Yoga Program for Primary Schools
Calm minds.
Confident hearts.
Stronger futures.
Evidence-informed wellbeing programs that combine movement, mindfulness, emotional regulation and the COMPAS Framework™ to help students build the skills they need to navigate life with confidence, resilience and heart.
Helping students find their Northern Star.
Students don't just learn about wellbeing.
They experience it.
Through fun, engaging sessions that combine:
🎵 Music
🏃 Movement
🧘 Dynamic Yoga
🌟 Mindfulness
💬 Emotional Intelligence
🤝 Team Building
🧭 The COMPAS Framework™
Students are actively involved, having fun and learning practical tools they can use every day.
Today's Students Are Facing More Challenges Than Ever
Many schools are seeing increasing numbers of students struggling with:
Challenges Schools Are Seeing
- Anxiety, worry and stress
- Difficulty focusing and staying on task
- Friendship challenges and social pressure
- Big emotions and emotional overwhelm
- Bullying, conflict and exclusion
- Low confidence and self-belief
- Perfectionism and fear of making mistakes
- School transitions and change
- Excess screen time and reduced resilience
- Restlessness, posture and body awareness issues
- Social skills, teamwork and communication challenges
Sound familiar? You’re not alone.
Across Australia, educators are working harder than ever to support student wellbeing while balancing academic outcomes and increasing classroom demands.
What Students Need Now
Students need simple tools they can actually use in real school moments, before a test, after conflict, during transitions,
when emotions rise, or when their body feels restless.
Kids For Yoga turns wellbeing into an active, memorable experience through movement, breath, music,
mindfulness and the COMPAS Wellbeing Framework™ .
Not just another activity. A practical inner navigation system for school and life.
What If Students Had a Practical Compass for Life?
At Kids For Yoga, we help students discover something powerful.
Every child has a Northern Star within them, their true self, their unique potential. It is shaped by their inner strengths, values, confidence, and their ability to navigate life's challenges.
But the sky is not always clear.
Sometimes there are clouds. Sometimes there are storms.
During difficult moments, children can lose sight of that inner guidance. They may feel overwhelmed, uncertain, scared, disconnected, or stuck.
Just as a compass helps us find our direction when we feel lost, children need practical tools that help them find their way back to calm, confidence, connection, and resilience.
Back to their Northern Star.
That is the heart of the COMPAS Wellbeing Framework™.
A simple, practical roadmap that helps students navigate challenges, build emotional resilience, strengthen focus, and develop the confidence to thrive both in school and in life.
Because life will always bring:
☁ Big Emotions
🌧 Difficult moments
🌪 Friendship challenges
🌊 Uncertainty
But students who have practical tools can learn to navigate those moments more effectively.
That's where the COMPAS Wellbeing Framework™ comes in.
COMPAS is Helping Students Navigate:
☁ Big feelings
🌪 Conflict
🌊 Change
⭐ Self-belief
🧠 Focus
💛 Connection
The COMPAS Wellbeing Framework™
A Simple and Practical Framework for Everyday Wellbeing
providing students with a clear and memorable roadmap,
they can use whenever life feels challenging, and restore focus and resilience.
Calm & Connect
Simple tools to regulate emotions, settle the nervous system and return to calm
Optimism & Openness
Curiosity over fear. Releasing tension or resistance through play.
Movement & Mindfulness
Body as ally. Strength through yoga. Focus and stillness. Body awareness. Presence
Purpose & Positivity
Northern Star identity. Unique gifts. Strengthening attention.
Awarness & Acceptance
Emotional literacy. Self-compassion. No self-judgement. Compassion.
Strength & Self-Belief
Helping students recognise strengths, express themselves and contribute positively. Encouraging perseverance, courage, confidence and a growth mindset.
Why Students Love It
Children learn best when they are engaged, moving, imagining and having fun.
In each session, students are not just listening to wellbeing ideas. They are feeling them in their body, practising them through movement, and remembering them through music, story and play.
Sessions Include:
- Music and rhythm including songs with meaningful messages
- Dynamic yoga flows that feel like dance and creative movement
- Mindfulness and breathwork tools for calm and focus
- Confidence-building poses and body language
- Partner and teamwork activities that build connection
- Emotional language and practical self-regulation strategies
- Meaningful themes that help students reflect, relate, and grow
The result?
Students are engaged, moving, learning and having fun while building skills that support their wellbeing.
This is not "sit still and listen."
It's active, meaningful, embodied learning that sticks.
Benefits for Your School Community
Practical wellbeing support for students, teachers and the wider school culture.
Benefits For Students
Students develop practical skills that support learning, wellbeing, and everyday school life, including:
- Focus and attention for learning
- Calm strategies for managing emotions
- Confidence and self-belief from the inside out
- Resilience to navigate challenges
- Social skills through teamwork and connection
- Body awareness, posture, and physical confidence
- Self-awareness and emotional language
- More positive engagement in the classroom and beyond
Benefits For Teachers
COMPAS gives teachers more than a one-off wellbeing activity. It gives students practical tools and shared language that can support the classroom long after the session ends.
Teachers benefit from:
- Calmer, more settled classroom environments
- Smoother transitions and improved readiness to learn
- A shared language around calm, focus, emotions, and resilience
- Practical self-regulation strategies students can use daily
- Greater support for student engagement and participation
- Tools that complement existing wellbeing programs and classroom routines
Benefits For Schools
COMPAS supports whole-school wellbeing by helping students build the inner tools they need to navigate learning, friendships, emotions, and challenges.
Schools benefit from:
- Stronger support for student wellbeing goals
- A practical approach to emotional regulation, confidence, and resilience
- Alignment with Australian Curriculum Health and Physical Education outcomes
- A program that complements Positive Education and Mental Health and Wellbeing priorities
- Flexible delivery options for wellbeing days, workshops, incursions, or ongoing programs
- An engaging, embodied approach that makes wellbeing memorable, not just theoretical
Flexible Programs for Your School
Choose the pathway that best supports your students.
Wellbeing Day Incursions
A memorable wellbeing experience that introduces students to calming tools, confidence and connection.
Mental Health & Resilience Workshops
Practical tools for navigating emotions, friendship challenges, stress and change.
COMPAS Wellbeing Program
A structured program that builds confidence, focus, emotional regulation and resilience over time.
Special School Introduction Offer
Book a ½ Price COMPAS Wellbeing Incursion
A simple, low-risk way for your school to experience the COMPAS Framework before committing to a full-term program.
Led with Heart. Backed by Practical Tools.
Kids For Yoga was created to help children build emotional tools early, so they can grow with more calm, confidence and resilience.
Founded by Marketa, a children’s yoga and mindfulness educator, mum of two, and holistic wellbeing practitioner, the program blends yoga, mindfulness, movement, emotional literacy and the original COMPAS Framework.
The sessions feel playful for students, but the intention is deeply practical: helping children build skills they can carry into the classroom, playground, home and life.