Shift Movement
Shift Movement is a Gloucestershire based initiative to make yoga and mindfulness accessible in schools and communities. We teach in-person and online yoga classes, train freelance yoga teachers to join our team and network, mentor young people and empower them to share tools with their peers, train adults working in education to be wellbeing ambassadors, host events, offer a directory of local classes, provide a platform with online yoga videos, offer bespoke 1-1 yoga lessons and deliver school workshops.
We are a movement of change-makers, making a shift towards better mental health for young people and educators. For a more present, resilient and connected future.
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Shift Wellbeing Courses
Discover accessible movement and mindfulness techniques to take care of your mind, body and heart – then share your wellbeing toolkit with others in your school, friendship group, or workplace.
Our inclusive courses are built for everyday life and designed specifically for young people and adults working in education. They are a hybrid approach to learning with online with occasional in-person events, making it easier to fit into busy modern life.
Transform your own wellbeing and facilitate positive change in the lives of people around you, by teaching everyday skills for life’s ups and downs.
We have two signature courses, the Wellbeing Ambassador Course for Educators and the Bliss.ed peer to peer course for Secondary School Students.
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Wellbeing Ambassador Course for Educators
This course is for any adult working in education in both Primary and Secondary Schools. You can be a TA, Teacher, in Management or work in admin!
Develop a range of sustainable day-to-day strategies to improve your personal wellbeing, and learn how to use these interventions confidently with your students and colleagues.
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Peer-to-Peer Course
The 'Bliss.ed' course inspired created was from Robin becoming the UK's youngest yoga teacher aged 16 and sharing yoga whilst still studying at school. When young people share yoga with other young people it is more relevant and impactful. This course empowers the next generation to share yoga with their peers.
This course is for secondary school students.
Feel empowered to look after your mental health through yoga and mindfulness, with our bronze course, and share these practices with other young people in your own creative way, with our silver course.
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School visits & workshops
Primary, Secondary & Special Schools
Our experienced team can visit your school to inspire and support your staff and pupils to explore healthy habits for physical, mental and emotional wellbeing all whilst having fun! We can deliver the sessions in sports halls or classrooms.
We can offer bespoke assemblies, yoga classes, INSET days, brain breaks in the classroom, and wellbeing days for primary and secondary schools based around your needs as a school. We can come in for 1 hour or you can book us for a whole day!
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Our yoga and mindfulness classes
Book one of our group classes on our directory or a 1:1 yoga session with your preferred member of the Shift team
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Our virtual and in-person events
Check out our upcoming community and celebration events, workshops, festivals, and retreats.
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Shift.ed membership area
Connect with other people in the Shift community, through our online platform and access new resources post training. Plus, members receive discounts on in-person events and retreats!
SHIFT...
We all experience degrees of stress or anxiety throughout our lives. In the middle of busy days, we often struggle to know how to find our way back to ease and connection… and end up just waiting for the next weekend or holiday, hoping to feel okay again..
Let’s get that Friday feeling…on a Monday!
Imagine there is something that you could do daily or even in the moment that would help you work through those periods of stress to find a calm headspace.
There is! Yoga is scientifically proven to help lessen anxiety and depression. Through regular practice of mindful yoga it is possible to retrain your brain to be more present and resilient. Yoga helps us find that ease, connection, and strength in our day-to-day lives.
Yoga can benefit everyone…
Gone are the days when you needed a full wardrobe of lycra, gym memberships, only consume drinks that taste like freshly mowed grass, be able to tie yourself in knots or stand on your hands, or be anything other than you already are. If you can breathe, you can be good at yoga. In fact at Shift we believe there is no good or bad at yoga, there is only practising yoga.
No matter your shape or your fitness level, this is accessible for anyone and everyone, from all walks of life.
Yoga is in schools worldwide, doctors are prescribing yoga, professional athletes are noting how it improves their performance and prisons are offering it as rehabilitation.
At Shift Movement we help you to re-think what your perception of yoga is and who you think it is for and instead see at a universal self care practice, as essential as brushing your teeth everyday, it’s basic hygiene for the mind.
When we hear feedback from the young people, teachers, and educators who join our courses, they tell us about outcomes like:
◖ Better sleep and relaxation
◗ Being able to switch off from worrying
◖ Being able to stay calm in stressful situations
◗ Improved focus and attention
◖ New personal insights and positive perspectives
◗ Growing confidence and self-esteem
◖ Greater sense of connection and purpose
We show you how to adapt yoga that you can use anytime, anywhere, to manage whatever’s thrown your way - even if you only have 5 minutes! We will help match tools to your personal life, desires and interests so that it's fun for you.
Interested in understanding more about the benefits of movement and mindfulness?
Check out the blog for case studies, research articles, and yoga tips.
The Shift Story
Founded by Robin aged 17 in 2016, Shift has grown into an impactful organisation with a team of skilled yoga teachers delivering a range of innovative courses, classes and events throughout Gloucestershire.
“Shift is that powerful feeling you get after yoga – a transformation you can truly feel. It’s the deeper connection to yourself, a fresh perspective, and a wave of peace and clarity” - Robin
While still at school, Robin experienced the huge impact of yoga and meditation on her own mental health and confidence, ability to learn effectively, and formation of healthy relationships. She also realised that not everyone has the same access to these life-changing opportunities for improved wellbeing. So, she trained to become the UK’s youngest certified yoga teacher, whilst still studying A-levels at school and immediately began passing her knowledge onto friends. This grew into sharing yoga with young people all around Gloucestershire who wanted to join her teen classes and schools requesting her to talk at assemblies and deliver workshops. This sparked Robin to develop a business to provide young people and schools with yoga and mindfulness.
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