Schools & Programs
If you run a school or program that wants to support your students and patrons with adapted movement and mindfulness, and you want to start, continue or grow yoga with them, I'd love to talk. Check out my current programs below.
Yoga in the Schools
Preschool
Teaching self regulation without ever saying self regulation. Short, playful classes for the youngest students, from 15 months to 5 years. We move like animals, play with balance, breathe with stories and finish with a moment of rest. Classes are 30 minutes and grouped by age so each group gets what it's ready for. Current preschool programs for the 2026-2027 school year: Chilmark Preschool and Island Children's School.
Elementary and Middle School
Yoga and mindfulness for growing bodies and busy minds. Students learn simple tools they can use on their own: a breath to settle before a test, a stretch after sitting all day, a way to notice how they feel. Classes fit into the school day as a weekly class, a unit or a series.
High School
At Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, yoga is a regular class during the school day, not an after-school extra. Students build strength, flexibility and focus, and learn practical ways to manage stress and sleep better. Each semester we run two Yoga in Health classes and one junior seminar where all juniors experience how yoga can support their lives on and off the mat. There are no exams, just experience and practice.
Yoga for Kids
Yoga Play for Kids
A weekly, free drop-in yoga class for kids aged 0-5 and their big people (parents, grandparents, caregivers). Move, breathe, laugh, play and settle together in a 30-minute class that's accessible whether your little one watches the whole time or comes ready to play in all the ways we do. No experience or mat needed. Currently offered through the West Tisbury Free Public Library.
Summer Camp Programs
Yoga and mindfulness sessions built into summer camp days: yoga dance, active games, partner poses and calm-down tools campers can use all summer. Sessions can be one-time or weekly through the season. We currently host weekly yoga dance at the Plum Hill Summer Camp during the summer season.
Adaptive Yoga
Island Autism
Three times a week, I teach adaptive yoga with Island Autism. Island Autism serves people with autism on Martha's Vineyard, both the year-round community and seasonal residents, including families with members who live with autism. Classes are small, predictable and built around each person, with clear routines, visual cues, sensory-friendly options and plenty of choice. The goal isn't the perfect pose; it's feeling safe, steady and connected in your body.
Navigator and Voyager Programs at the High School
Yoga as part of the school day for students in MVRHS's Navigator and Voyager programs. It's built into the high school day so students with mental and physical differences have an opportunity to connect and be included in the same experience as other high schoolers. Sessions focus on movement, breath and regulation, adapted to each student so everyone can take part, play and practice in their own way.
Confidently Sensitive
Yoga for people with mental differences, and for anyone who feels things deeply. Confidently Sensitive classes offer a gentle, low-pressure practice that honors sensitivity as a strength. It was built through initial investment by Lululemon and the MV Yoga Barn and is now an annual event hosted by YogiJay at the MV Yoga Barn that brings both individuals and their caregivers together with a panel of teachers, clinical social workers, psychologists and neuroscientists to learn about how yoga and mindfulness can support transformation and more ease in living a day to day life with a mental difference.
Programs are publicly and privately funded through organizations like the Sound Foundation that support arts, movement and mindfulness-based education for underserved populations. If your school or program wants yoga but needs help paying for it, I'm glad to help find funding.
Private Sessions
Want one-on-one time, or a class just for your family, friends or team? I teach private sessions across the island, shaped around where you are today. One-on-one sessions start at $200; group privates start at $300. Tell me what you're looking for and I'll get back to you personally.
More than a yoga session
Beyond one-on-one physical practice and therapy, a private can weave therapeutic movement and breath together with verbal coaching. We work in the body, then talk through what comes up, so the shift you feel on the mat comes with words and tools you can carry into daily life. A private could look like:
Yoga therapy & mindful movement: strength, mobility, injury recovery and nervous system regulation.
Life transitions & stress: working through identity shifts, mental loops and burnout.
Grief & space holding: a safe, grounded place to process loss.
Financial resilience & conscious business: a mindful approach to work, value and money, free of scarcity stories.
Practice Online
Practice with me from home. Two FREE live Zoom classes each week, thanks to the West Tisbury Library: Adaptive Yoga @ Home, Mondays 7:30 to 8:15 am, and Kripalu Yoga @ Home, Thursdays 7:30 to 8:15 am.
Prefer your own schedule? The on-demand library is ready whenever you are. Starting at $35/mo get unlimited access to all videos and classes in the library!
About YogiJay
YogiJay grew up with severe obsessive compulsive disorder and struggled through school, friendships and relationships. After years of trial and error with medication, psychiatric care and therapy, he found yoga, and it changed his life. Now he gives that gift back by creating programs that bring yoga to underserved populations: kids, students in the classroom, and people living with mental and physical differences, from OCD and ADHD to autism and Down syndrome. Every class is built around the group, so it works for wiggly toddlers, busy teenagers and students who need a quieter, more predictable space.
