Amy Zambrano
Founder of Amy's Yogabilities LLC
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Amy Zambrano is a yogi on a mission, bringing yoga, mindfulness and social emotional learning to all ages and all abilities. Amy is the Jersey Shore’s leading Youth Yoga Expert. Amy’s Yoga programs focus on empowering the mind, body, and breath awareness for maintaining a healthy well being. Amy inspires her students to reach their full potential and incorporate yoga on the mat and off the mat and into their everyday life! Amy has over 900 hours of yoga & meditation teacher training and specializes in bringing yoga, mindfulness and social emotional learning (SEL) together for every student to reach their full potential. Amy has been featured in the spring 2019 “Goddess” issue of NY Yoga +Life Magazine, entitled: “A Day in the Life: Working in Wellness with Amy Zambrano”, along with being a Guest Blogger for the companies: K-Deer and Plymouth Rock. She is a Kids Coaching Connection Life Coach, and a graduate of the Rutgers University Social Emotional Learning and Character Development Program. She is also a Reiki Master.
Amy has traveled all over the world to deepen and enhance her teaching practice to help her students. With over a decade of teaching experience, along with teaching thousands of students over the years, Amy has created successful school based yoga programs for pre-school, elementary, middle & high school students, including students in the special education department, along with teaching professional development workshops.
Amy was the recipient of the 2015 Rotary Community Service Volunteer award for volunteering her Yoga for Young Athletes program to the LB Rotary Club’s Challenger Special Needs Soccer team. Amy volunteers her yoga services for the annual Autism Speaks event, Special Olympics & Ronald McDonald Walk for Kids. Amy was chosen as #80 in the “Shine: 100 Women Of Long Branch” photo exhibit gallery at the Long Branch Public Library because of her commitment to bringing yoga to the Long Branch community. Amy has been a presenter at the NJAHPERD Conventions, along with leading a workshop with the Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully national conference, along with teaching Professional Development Workshops, Yoga Coaching for Athletes, Classroom Yoga, SEL Yoga, School Assemblies, Summer Camps, After School Programs, Wellness Coaching and more!
Amy graduated from Rosemont College & Villanova University. Known for her smile and compassion to make a difference in the lives of her students, Amy is passionate about sharing her love of yoga to leave a positive impact on all she meets. Connect with Amy on her website: www.amyzambranoyoga.com to book Wellness Workshops, Private and Group sessions, birthday parties and more!
Blake Beers
Founder and CEO of Little Renegades
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ZenPalz could not help but to fall in love with Blake Beers and her company Little Renegades, we are sure you will too! We believe the mindfulness tools she has created should be a staple in every household and classroom. She has made incorporating mindfulness into daily life as easy and fun as it can be. Blake is no doubt a true Earth Angel!
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Blake Beers is the Founder and CEO of Little Renegades, a business designed to bring mindfulness to children. Having experienced extreme anxiety throughout her life, Blake found great peace and healing by developing her own practice of mindfulness. After becoming a mother of two little ones, Blake was inspired to find an easy and accessible way to introduce kids to these practices as early as possible. Now, Little Renegades is a nationally recognized business that creates products to help children find stillness, confidence, and joy in the present moment.
Little Renegades was featured on The Ellen's Shows "Fempire" series with Ayesha Curry and is currently sold at Whole Foods, Anthropologie, online, and more than 600 boutique shops across the US. Since its inception, Little Renegades has served more than 100,000 families in the US and Canada and continues to grow its product line with Mindful Kids activity cards and journals as well as an assortment of all-natural, fully-sustainable mats for little ones.
Prior to Little Renegades, Blake spent most of her career in advertising, leading teams at Facebook, Hulu, and Team One. She is a native Texan and currently resides in San Diego, CA with her husband Jerry and kids Henry and Piper.
Brittany Payne
Primary and Secondary Teacher
Certified Yoga Instructor
Online Mindfulness and Meditation and Yoga classes for children
https://outschool.com/teachers/Brittany-Payne?signup=true&authTrigger=follow_teacher&follow=true&utm_campaign=share_leader_link
Finding time to get children back and forth to classes can be tough. Miss Brittany holds virtual classes which can make a parent’s life a little bit easier! She has an incredible background and is dedicated to helping children learn meditation, yoga and how to live a mindful life. Miss Brittany is truly an Earth Angel!
Miss Brittany has been teaching for over five years. She has a B.A. in Psychology, a minor in Greek and Roman Mythology, and a 120 -hour TEFL Certification. She has taught in the United States and in Honduras at a Bilingual Spanish/English School. The subjects she has taught are U.S. History, Philosophy, Speech, Social Science, and Marketing and Advertising.
She is a Certified Yoga Instructor and has taught yoga and meditation for over three years. The classes that she teaches are Baby and Me Yoga, Preschool and Elementary Yoga, Teen Yoga, Adult Yoga, and Continuing Yoga for Beginners.
You can sign up for her virtual mindfulness classes and many more that she offers!
Kate Cannataro
Owner, Vibe Sessions With Kate
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Love, compassion, beauty, wisdom and light are only a few words that describe Kate. She is a healer, a teacher and an influencer. Kate is one of those special people you just feel good being around.
Kate is a Reiki Master, Certified children's yoga teacher, sound healer, and Intuitive Energy Coach.
Kate has a Master in Social Work (MSW), a Master in Education, early childhood, childhood, and special education, and her Bachelors of Science in Human Development and Family Studies.
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LisaMarie Falcone
Founder and Chef, Hungry Hippies
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The Hungry Hippie is a vegan meal delivery service dedicated to bringing you fresh, healthy, and delicious meals to help you reach and maintain optimal health.
Founder and Chef LisaMarie Falcone, CTNC, uses her nutrition background to ensure that each week is well balanced and meets high nutritional needs. She places a major focus on reducing inflammation, assisting in healthy digestion, and making our clients feel amazing overall! This means using high-quality ingredients (We’re looking at you vegetable oil!), proper cooking techniques, and creative takes on comforting classics.
Cara Gagne
Meet the woman behind the design of the ZenPalz website! Cara's creativity and design come straight from her heart and it shows. ZenPalz is truly blessed to have such a gifted creator as part of the ZenPalz family!
Fallyn Smith
MSW, PPSC, Family Coach
Social-Emotional Learning Expert
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ZenPalz absolutely loves Fallyn and all that she brings to the world! We are so excited to help spread her mindful teachings to parents, teachers, children, and anyone interested in raising awareness of how powerful mindful living can be for children. Fallyn’s passion to help children to live their best possible life makes her an Earth Angel in our book!
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Fallyn is an experienced Family Coach, Certified Elementary School Counselor, and Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educator. Her coaching practice, Mindful Kids Coaching, provides social and emotional coaching for parents, children, and educators. Clients learn invaluable skills that promote social and emotional well-being and success. Fallyn helps navigate challenges and create solutions so life can be less stressful and more connected and enjoyable.
Lorraine Murray
Founder and CEO of worldwide Connected Kids program
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Are you curious about meditation and wondering how it can help your children?
Maybe you are looking for a simple solution (or even a ‘magic wand’) to help your kids reduce stress and feel good about themselves?
The good news is…yes there’s a simple solution. Yes, there is a ‘wand’. The really good news is that it’s you.
We’ve been empowering people like you (since 2003) to teach kids mindful and meditation life skills. So we know how to help you release your magic and become the meditation guide your kids need; helping them on their mindfulness journey into peace.
Personally and professionally, we know how meditation works. We have seen over and over how it can help reduce anxiety and stress. We want young people to experience this so they can feel happy, content, and thrive! Connect with us to learn more!
Giovanna Campagnino
giovanna_campagnino@fitnyc.edu
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If you love our logo as much as we do, this is the beautiful soul behind it's creation! Giovanna is currently attending FIT in New York City. She loves creating logos and channels her talent in a variety of different media! We are so grateful to have Giovanna as part of our ZenPalz family!
Licia Morelli
Author
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Licia Morelli is an internationally recognized life coach, sales expert top-tier copywriter, online marketing strategist, and best-selling author She has been featured in Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, and more. She lives with her husband and two young children on the coast of Maine.
Lessa McGregor
Author
https://www.alphabetforhumanity.com/
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A New Alphabet for Humanity children's book features 26 empowering alphabet lessons to nurture your child's social and emotional intelligence, to bring out their best and create a bright future for humanity!
It's the most inspiring alphabet on the planet! 🌎
✨ Nurtures social and emotional intelligence.
✨ Teaches children how to embody the values and qualities we desire to live by.
✨ Includes 26 empowering alphabet words like kindness, compassion, empathy, bravery, mindfulness, respect for the earth, self-love, and much more!
✨ Provides a heart-based education in one simple book.
✨ Perfect to share with children (and adults) ages 2 to 102!
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