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Create Calm - INA Wellness Yoga and mindfulness education that supports learning and builds strength, health, joy, resilience, and peace. Sometime you just need to know how.

Offering yoga instruction, meditation, training, counseling, coaching, and integrative wellness for individuals and communities. Everyone has the capacity for unconditional health and happiness. Everyone has the innate ability to feel true goodness and joy. When we help just one person connect with their own potential for health and happiness, we help them connect to the world around them and create calm in our communities, building a culture of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Nurturing and strengthening the "I iN All" - the inner-woven nature of our own minds and bodies, the interwoven nature of our Universe and the power we have to heal and grow together. INA Wellness offers private and group yoga & mindfulness classes, educational training and workshops, and programs to provide you with tools to unlock your inner greatness and to better connect with and strengthen yourself and your community. Discover the benefits and joy of learning through yoga and mindfulness with INA Wellness and help build a community of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Donate yoga and mindfulness programs to schools and organizations by giving to Create Calm, a section 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of INA Wellness. INA Wellness -- the Know-How to connect with your own inner goodness and joy and the tools to inspire it in others.

💛 Good conversations start with coming together.Join us for our next Create Calm Community Chat!We're bringing teachers,...
10/21/2026

💛 Good conversations start with coming together.

Join us for our next Create Calm Community Chat!

We're bringing teachers, parents, and education leaders together to talk about whole-child learning, personal growth, and the everyday challenges and successes of supporting children.

Come listen, share what's working for you, ask questions, and learn from others who care about this work as much as you do.

📅 Tuesday, October 27
⏰ 5 PM ET
💻 Online via Zoom

We'd love to have you join the conversation!

🔗 Register through the link in bio.

10/15/2026

💙 A little Throwback Thursday trip down memory lane! 📸

So many familiar faces, special moments, and wonderful memories from over the years!

As we look back at some of our favorite Create Calm moments, we're reminded of all the amazing people and communities we've connected with along the way.

✨ Do you recognize any familiar faces or remember one of these moments? We'd love to hear from you in the comments!

Check out what Michelle Greene has been up to!For nearly two years, Michelle has been sharing her passion for yoga, mind...
10/13/2026

Check out what Michelle Greene has been up to!

For nearly two years, Michelle has been sharing her passion for yoga, mindfulness, and movement as part of the Create Calm teaching team!

From introducing our littlest learners to yoga at DC early childhood centers, to teaching middle schoolers at CHEC, to leading family yoga at the National Gallery of Art (recently featured on Good Morning America!), Michelle brings energy, warmth, and inclusivity to every class.

Most recently, Michelle has expanded her reach through Create Calm’s partnership with The Happy Yogi Cooperative Happy, where she now leads monthly family yoga classes!

We're grateful for Michelle's dedication to helping students of all ages discover the power of movement, breath, and self-awareness.

What began in 2020 as a way to keep students and educators connected during the pandemic has grown into something far be...
10/08/2026

What began in 2020 as a way to keep students and educators connected during the pandemic has grown into something far beyond what we imagined.

Artful Movement started as a collaboration between Create Calm and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, with Lisa Danahy and Jennifer Reifsteck exploring ways to bring art, movement, mindfulness, and meaningful learning experiences into classrooms.

Six years later, that collaboration continues to grow.

In 2026 alone, Artful Movement expanded to 9 additional museums and 21 classroom teachers, reaching tens of thousands of students across the country.

This month, Lisa had the opportunity to share that journey at the Smithsonian’s Together We Thrive Grants Forum, highlighting what’s possible when educators, museums, and community partners work together.

We're grateful to Jennifer and everyone who has helped bring Artful Movement to more students and communities.

We're excited to see where this work goes next!

Interested in bringing Artful Movement to your school, museum, or educational community? Learn more at CreateCalm.org.

09/30/2026

Let your thoughts and feelings be free to fly, land, stay or disappear until all exists with equanimity and perhaps in that you will find the calm you have been seeking.

A bit of Monday Mindfulness to get the week started.

✨ Teacher Tuesday: Meet Peat!Peat has been practicing and teaching yoga for 16 years, along with Taiji, Qigong, Usui Rei...
09/29/2026

✨ Teacher Tuesday: Meet Peat!

Peat has been practicing and teaching yoga for 16 years, along with Taiji, Qigong, Usui Reiki, and Massage Therapy.

That range of experience shapes the way he teaches. Peat knows how to meet people where they are, adapting his approach for different ages, needs, and abilities.

His trauma-informed classes give children space to explore, build self-regulation and co-regulation skills, and feel more at home in themselves.

It’s the Create Calm philosophy in action, and we’re so glad to have Pete as part of our community. 💙

Get Repost App • Lisa Danahy Balloon breaths, turtle shells, and the three faces of ego. 🎈🐢I had such a great conversati...
09/28/2026

Get Repost App • Lisa Danahy Balloon breaths, turtle shells, and the three faces of ego. 🎈🐢

I had such a great conversation on the Powerful and Unpolished podcast with Tim Salmans about helping ourselves and the children in our lives recognize big emotions and find ways to move through them.

Sometimes the simplest tools are the ones we can actually remember to use when we need them most.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation on Spotify. Link in bio.

Ten years of Create Calm. 💙It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade.So many children, educators, families, schools, partn...
09/24/2026

Ten years of Create Calm. 💙

It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade.

So many children, educators, families, schools, partners, colleagues, and friends have been part of this work and helped shape what Create Calm has become.

There’s so much to celebrate, but mostly, we just want to say thank you. Thank you for trusting us, learning with us, growing with us, and creating a little more calm along the way.

Happy 10th birthday, Create Calm. 🎉

Here’s to what comes next. 💙

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