9 Yoga & Mindfulness Tools for Mental Health

All of the tools you find in this toolkit help cultivate calm, mental health, and overall well being.

Learning skills to support our mental health early in life can provide significant benefits to our physical, emotional, and social growth for life. For example, for children to choose calm in times of stress, they first need the opportunity to experience calm and practice arriving at a calm state.

All of the tools you find in this toolkit help cultivate calm, mental health, and overall well being. In this resource, learn 9 yoga and mindfulness practices for mental health that are suitable for a variety of settings and time frames: each tool may be as brief as 1 minute or expanded as needed.

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Megan McWilliams

Megan McWilliams is a full-time social worker in Austin, TX. She received a dual Masters's degree in Social Work and Public Health from Tulane University where she developed a passion for the mind-body connection.

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