Jordan S. Grinstein Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States

Create and Deliver Mindfulness, Yoga, Meditation, SEL, and wellness programming across the Shrewsbury Public Schools District.

- Facilitate racial equity professional development for City of Malden educators and administrators- Develop culturally responsive social justice and wellness curricula uniquely tailored to the diverse populations of Malden High School students and staff members- Deliver workshops to empower white and students of color with language and awareness practices.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

-Co-facilitate year-long racial equity professional development for educators and administrators to create a more just and inclusive Barnstable Public and Josiah Quincy Elementary School communities-Lead white staff members in race-based breakout group discussion and activities focused on transformative solidarity, dismantling myths of supremacy, unpacking.

Greater Boston Area

• Provide equity and mindfulness professional development for administrators and educators at numerous educational and service institutions throughout New England
• Facilitate wellness workshops for the City of Boston Department of Health and Human Resources
• Train multicultural youth groups to lead meditation and SEL experiences for their home and school communities and certify them as Ivy Child International Mindfulness Learning Ambassadors

Greater Boston Area

• Lead 200-hr yoga teacher trainings for school educators, counselors, and administrators focusing on the intersection of social justice and individual and community wellness and agency
• Guide culturally responsive and trauma sensitive embodied experiences to enhance the social emotional wellness and intelligence of program participants and certify them as yoga instructors
• Develop and deliver curricula specialized in profound breath practices designed to promote societal transformation by enhancing individual connections between emotional, mental, and physical bodies.

Somerville, MA

• Trained youth groups, ages 9 – 12, to become mindfulness ambassadors by empowering specific students to lead meditations in their classrooms, homes, and communities.
• Integrated mindfulness into school routines and culture by leading daily meditations over the PA systems, leading weekly mindfulness practices in staff profession development sessions.
• Facilitated social emotional learning exercises, such as mind tricks, breathing, yoga, and community building activities, in classroom settings to promote physical, emotionally, and spiritual wellness.

Lenox, MA

• Assisted in various wellness and yoga programs at prestigious health center including four separate Yoga Teacher Trainings to provide guidance to teachers in training
• Helped facilitated discussions in program called Quarter Life Calling, aimed to call forth young people in their 20s to their life mission while offering participants the tools to create their dream life.
• Taught yoga classes in Spanish specifically for the Spanish-speaking staff members, including house keeping, kitchen staff, and cleaning staff, to equalize access to the benefits of yogic tools.

Durham, NH

• Lectured 180 University of New Hampshire students about alternative medicine, Ayurveda, breath work, meditation, and mindfulness.
• Guided yoga classes to lab sections of general education science course "Stressed Out" to promote effective coping skills and stress management for college students.

Swansea, MA

• Taught trauma sensitive and trauma healing yoga classes to intensive and emotionally handicapped adolescents young people, ages 13-21.
• Offered mindfulness, emotional learning skills, to increase resiliency, gumption, and efficacy.

Greater Boston Area

• Taught weekly yoga classes to seventh graders throughout the academic school year for yoga research projected organized by Kripalu Institute of Extraordinary Living in collaboration with Harvard Medical School by.