The Calm Club
Young People's Yoga and Mindfulness
About Us
Hi, I'm Tash, founder of The Calm Club!
My mission in creating The Calm Club is to bring inclusive, interactive and impactful yoga into ALL children's lives. We work with teachers, schools and families in the South West of England, offering kids yoga classes, training and workshops.
We have our own hand-written yoga and mindfulness curriculum, which is curated to be inclusive, child-centred and interactive so that ALL children can benefit from it.
We believe yoga is for everyone, and envision a future where children from all walks of life are emotionally intelligent, and able to emotionally regulate using the tools that they have learned with us and through yoga.
Tash: Founder and CEO
Find Tash writing our curriculums, leading workshops and trainings, and spreading yoga far and wide!
The wonderful practice of yoga came into my life in 2010, and since then it has helped me in so many ways.
In 2015 I became a classroom teacher, yoga, breath and meditation helped me to serve my students better. Since then have worked with many different schools, students and teachers. From being directly in the classroom, I understand the challenges schools, teachers and students face, and have seen first hand how impactful yoga can be in schools and within families.
I took my first 200-hour YTT in 2017 and I founded The Calm Club in 2022 to bring yoga into more children's lives, and spread the gift of mindfulness to combat rising mental health issues.
My own love of learning continues to grow and through the joy of teaching yoga to children, it is all at once fun, challenging and deeply inspiring. We are now training the next generation of Children's Yoga Teachers to widen our impact, aiming to reach as many children as possible.
I truly believe that yoga and mindfulness are calming, peaceful tools for children that will serve them throughout their lives.
Robin: Founder of Shift Movement
Find Robin managing, creating and training with Tash!
I started the Shift Movement after discovering at 12 years old how meditation could change my life, after committing to daily practice at a low point in my life. And my goodness it was worth it!
Inspired, I became the youngest yoga instructor in the UK in 2015.
A local school in Stroud asked me to help work with challenging students to help them engage through movement. This then led to teaching yoga classes in prison. It was, and still is, really important to be authentic and go on new courses to deepen and refresh one’s learning. I completed an additional 300 hours of training in trauma yoga, prison yoga, yoga for young people and yoga in healthcare.
Since then I have trained hundreds of teachers in Gloucestershire to teach yoga in their schools, run Yoga conferences funded by Active Gloucestershire and in collaboration with Tash, and helped expand The Calm Club Camps.
It is amazing to me that with my commitment of one small change every day – I have changed my whole lifestyle, how I feel about myself, and how I interact with others. Now I enjoy witnessing others who are part of the Shift Movement make positive transformations in their lives.
Carolyn: Teacher Trainer
Find Carolyn teaching in schools and training our Children's Yoga teachers!
Whether sharing yoga with adults or children, my approach is rooted in connection and compassion, empowering the individual to explore what feels right for them, in the moment. Yoga has become such an integral part of life for me in this way, reminding me daily of our connection and uniqueness, our inner strengths and messy human condition, which all allows me to ride the joys and challenges of life with a little more ease.
I have been teaching children's yoga for over 6 years, primarily in primary schools, as well as festivals, and private classes, using a trauma-aware, inclusive approach that priorities playfulness and self-expression. My intention is always to see the whole child—fostering a space where they feel seen and supported, rather than corrected, and can learn useful self-regulation and mindfulness tools for physical and mental wellbeing.
Alongside my work with children, I am passionate about helping women, and mothers, to reconnect to and nurture our powerful inner-resources of intuition, self-compassion and presence, that can often feel lost in the pace and expectations of modern life, but can offer so much support and inner strength too.
I am excited to be working with The Calm Club to share The Children’s Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training 2025 and help expand this important work to equip future generations with self-kindness, awareness, and emotional intelligence skills for life.
Our Values
INCLUSIVE
CHILD-CENTRED
INTERACTIVE
Tash's Qualificaitons
500-Hour Yoga Medicine Yoga Therapy YTT (In Progress)
Online, March 2022
40-Hour Emotional Empowerment (Baghavad Gita Study)
Sudhir Rishi, Online, January 2022
95-Hour Trauma Informed Children's RYCT
YogaEd, Online, April 2021
30-Hour Advanced Pranayama Teacher Training
Sudhir Rishi, Online, April 2020
Yoga for Vulnerable Young People Workshop
Special Yoga, London, January 2020
30-Hour Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
Yoga for You, Bristol UK, September 2019
Teaching Yoga to Teens
Calm for Kids Workshop, January 2019
50-Hour Yin YTT, Angela J-R
November 2018, UK
200-Hour Vinyasa & Astanga Yoga YTT
October 2017, Sampoorna Yoga, India
PGCE Secondary Geography
UCL, London, 2015 - 2016