Mindful Life Project

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Mindful Life Project Mindful Life Project helps transform schools from the inside out through innovative mindfulness direct service and training programs that are highly regarded.

Get us to your school! Mindful Life Project empowers students through mindfulness​ ​and yoga, expressive arts and performing arts ​to​ ​gain​ ​self-awareness, confidence,​ ​self-regulation​ ​and​ ​resilience,​ ​leading​ ​to​ ​lifelong​ ​success. We do this ​through​ ​mindfulness based​ ​and​ ​culturally​ ​relevant​ ​school-based​ ​programs, which guides​ ​students​ ​to​ ​make​ ​positive​ ​life​ ​choices​ ​both​ ​at​ ​school​ ​and​ ​in​ ​their​ ​community.​ ​Students​ ​learn​ ​to understand​ ​and​ ​navigate​ ​their​ ​feelings,​ ​emotions,​ ​thoughts,​ ​and​ ​life​ ​experiences,​ ​which​ ​enables​ ​new,​ ​wiser responses​ ​that​ ​improve​ ​attention,​ ​learning,​ ​emotional​ ​regulation,​ ​empathy,​ ​and​ ​conflict​ ​resolution.​ ​We​ ​are proud​ ​to​ ​serve​ ​over​ ​​20,000 students​ ​each​ ​year​​ ​at​ ​39 elementary and middle​​ ​schools​ ​in​ ​the​ Bay​ ​Area​. Additionally, we serve schools across the state and country with hybrid programming for students, staff and families.

With our brains being naturally wired for survival, it often makes us try to resist strong emotions which triggers the ...
10/14/2026

With our brains being naturally wired for survival, it often makes us try to resist strong emotions which triggers the stress response, in mindfulness we train ourselves to welcome all emotions like “friends” which allows the stress response not to engage as often when emotions arise.

Don’t you wish you would have learned this in school?

How would that have effected your mental and emotional health growing up and into adulthood?

And there’s great news! With the brains plasticity we can literally change the brains architecture and neural networks throughout our whole lives. 🧠

And if you want the next generation to have amazing mindfulness programs please support Mindful Life Project!

On this World Mental Health Day, MLP continues to commit to making everyday, Mental Health Day! We believe that every pe...
10/10/2026

On this World Mental Health Day, MLP continues to commit to making everyday, Mental Health Day! We believe that every person should have access to resources, programs and supports that provide comprehensive mental and emotional wellbeing.

We believe that one of the best ways to start to make this a reality is by focusing on schools as places where the foundation of the experience for students, educators and families is mental and emotional wellbeing. Mental health is like physical health, the more we invest daily in supporting them, the more we will have increased wellbeing. The science is very clear that daily gratitude, daily compassion and daily mindfulness practices are deeply impactful in supporting mental and emotional health and our programs infuse these to all in the school ecosystem!

What kind of skills? Mindful Skills!We support Tk-12th graders and their educators in learning, growing, and building th...
10/06/2026

What kind of skills?

Mindful Skills!

We support Tk-12th graders and their educators in learning, growing, and building their mindful skills!

Want us at a school near you?

Just let us know 😊

We want to welcome back JG! After about a year away from the organization, we are excited to share that he is back at ML...
10/02/2026

We want to welcome back JG! After about a year away from the organization, we are excited to share that he is back at MLP.

JG has had the amazing opportunity to work with 5 other mindfulness in education organizations and is excited to use the learnings to help MLP in this new chapter for the organization.

Inner peace.What more important thing can we prioritize?Nothing. So let’s invest in mindfulness in schools ❤️
10/01/2026

Inner peace.

What more important thing can we prioritize?

Nothing. So let’s invest in mindfulness in schools ❤️

Emotions come, emotions go, we treat them all like friends ❤️It’s ok to not be ok.Mindfulness skills help us welcome the...
09/29/2026

Emotions come, emotions go, we treat them all like friends ❤️

It’s ok to not be ok.

Mindfulness skills help us welcome them all.

When the downstairs friends arrive and we have a hard time welcoming them into our “brain house” we can ask an upstairs ...
09/25/2026

When the downstairs friends arrive and we have a hard time welcoming them into our “brain house” we can ask an upstairs friend to come down and help make the downstairs friend feel at home.

It might be Breathing Bruno or Heartful Jaime, or Body Scanning Sammy or any of the friends that most come to us in the present moment.

Kids learning how to welcome strong emotions is life changing ❤️

As our mindfulness coaches return to school we are seeing such an inspiring level of excitement from the students and st...
09/18/2026

As our mindfulness coaches return to school we are seeing such an inspiring level of excitement from the students and staff at each of our sites.

Mindfulness coaches belong in all schools.

We look forward to the day that we see mindfulness coaches at schools like we see PE teachers.

And even more, we look forward to the day that mental health is invested in both through upstream models and interventions.

Mental health as the foundation of a school ecosystem.

Let’s become our own bff 😊❤️Let the “inner friend” grow and the “inner critic” go.Due to so many factors, including the ...
06/18/2025

Let’s become our own bff 😊❤️

Let the “inner friend” grow and the “inner critic” go.

Due to so many factors, including the wiring of our brain having a default negative bias and we are highly effected by societal conditioning, we often are extremely self critical and have inner narratives that create the storylines in our mind that can make us feel a lack of self worth, a lack of belonging, isolated and much more. If the “inner critic” can grow that means we can also grow the “inner friend.”

A mindfulness technique that helps grow the inner friend is training ourselves to have gratitude and compassion for our authentic self and befriending our inner experiences.

By taking time each day to cultivate gratitude and self compassion to celebrate what makes us unique while tapping into our inner resilience we can slowly start to eliminate the inner critic. Ideally we can start the day by doing this. Try it out, either with your eyes closed or looking with connection into the mirror think of things that you are grateful for about yourself and send yourself compassion and love. It might be hard at first but the more we practice the more it will grow!

Imagine learning mindfulness at 5 years old.How could that have transformed your life?
06/16/2025

Imagine learning mindfulness at 5 years old.

How could that have transformed your life?

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1001 Canal Boulevard Suite A-0 Richmond, CA 94804
Richmond, CA
94801

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+15105176290

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