​Lotus Girls is a joyful and adventurous class for 6-11-year-olds, exploring the relationship between body and imagination. Incorporating yoga-based movement, dramatic play, sensory exercises, storytelling, journaling, art projects, and more, the program is designed to help young girls tap into their innate creativity. Applicable to all the arts and beyond, the class is focused on building physical fitness and body confidence, nurturing social-emotional skills, and sparking the imagination. We celebrate inquiry, improvisation, individuality, diversity, collaboration, involved listening, physical freedom, uninhibited participation,​ and a spirit of playfulness!​​
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beanstalk classes are a warm and playful mash-up of yoga-based movement, mindfulness exercises, imagination games, sensory exploration, storytelling, dramatic play, and hands-on art projects, structured around both traditional and inventive themes. Geared toward early childhood and the elementary years, class activities nurture key areas of child development, including gross and fine motor skills, language, and social-emotional growth; recent research supports yoga's positive effect on cognitive development and executive function.* beanstalk yoga classes for kids are designed to stretch and strengthen body and imagination, encouraging young children to express themselves physically, vocally, and creatively. ​
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Customizable programs for schools, early education programs, homeschool,
​theatre classes, birthday parties, and more...
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What Kids Say...

​Dear Jenny,
Thank you for helping us be so creative. I love your imagination games and all the yoga you teach us. We love you!
​Meera, age 9

​Dear Jenny,
I love how creative you are. I love how unique the class is. It bounces from yoga to pretending! LOTUS GIRLS...THEY ROCK!
Love,
Ruby, age 7

Dear Jenny,
I really loved working with you and thank you for empowering us to be strong.
Alexa, age 8

​Thank you for helping us feel less stressed.
​Luis, 6th grade Drama Program

​Thank you for helping me out of my comfort zone. You helped me get less shy and be myself.
Alondra, 8th grade Drama Program

Although it looked and felt weird, it was fun! I would like to do it again. I feel like I really got to know my character.
Pierce, 8th grade Drama Program
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Chriseily, Age 5
*Research Resources:
https://www.tandemspeechtherapy.com/2018/01/11/playing-with-purpose-yoga/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6467975/#:~:text=Yoga%20is%20suggested%20to%20be,et%20al.%2C%202018)
Distilling more than 15 years' experience devising customized yoga classes and yoga+arts workshops for children and adults, Jenny Sheffer Stevens developed a distinctive teaching style—spirited practices that challenge and nurture the body, spark the imagination, and help people find a free and authentic way to move. 
She's taught variations of her signature program to actors, writers, dancers, producers, designers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and more, in a wide variety of venues, including full semesters within a conservatory, as a guest teaching artist in undergrad programs, a prestigious literary festival, in corporate settings, on private retreats, and in individual sessions. Jenny has a longstanding commitment to outreach—creative empowerment of young people, especially girls—and has devoted significant time to pro-bono work with children, leading yoga+arts classes within diverse New York City and Los Angeles public schools.  She holds a BA in English Literature, MFA in Acting, and multiple yoga teaching certifications; she's a freelance writer and essayist, and a two-time recipient of the Lincoln City Fellowship, a generous grant from the Speranza Foundation, for her integrative work in writing, arts education, yoga, and women’s initiatives; she currently serves on the Lincoln City Fellowship Creative Council, leading movement and artistic wellness workshops for the 2021 cohort of fellows.