The Oxygen Project
Our mission is to empower youth to face everyday stress and significant life challenges with resilience and calm through yoga and mindfulness techniques. Our strengths-based and trauma-sensitive programming supports physical and mental health, positive behavior, and healthy relationships. The Oxygen Project is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Program Offerings
All of our programs are currently available in-person or virtually.
The Oxygen Project offers school-age youth the powerful tools of yoga and mindfulness through ongoing classes held at schools and youth organizations. We also support schools, as well as youth development and mental health organizations, through self-care programming for staff, as we believe that in order to take care of our youth, staff must have resources to take care of themselves and one another.
Youth Yoga & Mindfulness Classes
Weekly—or, more—yoga and mindfulness classes follow our curriculum aligned with social-emotional learning competencies and may be desk-side or mat-based.
Staff Wellness Classes
We understand the great amount of time and energy you invest in your work with youth, as well as the need to take care of yourself to prevent high stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout in the field.
Professional Development
Integrating yoga and mindfulness techniques into your work will encourage focus, calm, emotional competence, and resilience among the youth you serve.
Supporting Youth through Yoga and Mindfulness
Do you work with youth, and need innovative and effective tools to help them manage the impact of significant stress and challenge? Want to create a more calm and collaborative classroom or therapeutic environment? Looking for resources for your own physical, mental, and emotional wellness, and you take care of others?
About the instructor
Laurie Brockhaus
Laurie Brockhaus has worked with youth in St. Louis since 2000, as a classroom teacher and social worker in school and community organizations, and has taught yoga to children and adults since 2004. Through this course, Laurie brings together years of experience in education, social justice work, therapy, and yoga/ mindfulness to offer a wealth of knowledge and resources in working with youth. Laurie co-founded and directs The Oxygen Project: Yoga for Youth, coordinates yoga teacher training programs at Urban Breath Yoga, instructs yoga trainings relevant to mental health and social service, and is a mental health and yoga therapist specializing in work with children and adolescents.
2812 Sutton Blvd.
Maplewood MO, 63143