Improve Staff & Student Wellness, Behavior and Success! Transform your School Community with a Comprehensive SEL, Breathwork & Wellness Training.
Experience the evidence-based and world-renowned approach to reduce stress, increase energy, and create the climate and culture your community deserves.
- Boost your emotional and physical well-being
- Transform how your students manage their stress & emotions
- Master an evidence-based practice
Are you an educator? Click here
Our Impact
“A treasured moment of peace, providing focus and reducing stress throughout my day.”
- Frank Biehl, East Side Union High School District, San Jose, CA
Improve Staff & Student Wellness, Behavior and Success! Transform your School Community with a Comprehensive SEL, Breathwork & Wellness Training.
Experience the evidence-based and world-renowned approach to reduce stress, increase energy, and create the climate and culture your community deserves.
- Boost your emotional and physical well-being
- Transform how your students manage their stress & emotions
- Master an evidence-based practice
Are you an educator? Click here
Our Impact
“A treasured moment of peace, providing focus and reducing stress throughout my day.”
- Frank Biehl, East Side Union High School District, San Jose, CA
Trusted By
"Life Changing"
"May be the fastest growing spiritual practice on the planet"
"Shows promise in providing relief for depression"
"Like Fresh air to millions"
"Life Changing"
"Yale researchers found SKY improved six areas that students may struggle with, notably depression, stress, mental health, mindfulness, positive affect, and social connectedness, while other programs only produced benefits in one of those areas or none at all."
"Shows promise in providing relief for depression"
"Like Fresh air to millions"
Explore How This Training will Change Your School
This 10-month journey gives your educators a powerful toolkit to enhance well-being, change student’s lives and transform your school from the inside out.
Equip your staff to guide students, fellow educators, and even parents towards resilience, responsibility, positive connections, and all around success.
In weeks, experience a new, transformed, positive climate in your school.
The Program That Uplifts Schools From The Inside Out
Our unique curriculum combines online learning, independent study, group work, and an in-person retreat. Through this training you will:
- Gain mastery of the research-backed K-12 SKY Schools SEL, breathwork and wellness program.
- Develop an invaluable daily SKY breathing practice to transform your own well-being.
- Become part of an uplifting, supportive community with daily and weekly training sessions.
- Receive a personal coach to support you and answer any questions you may have.
- Learn to host transformative workshops for parents and other educators.
- Gain access to SKY School’s entire library of online learning and development resources.
The US Surgeon General has called the youth mental health crisis the defining public health emergency of this generation. Even after the pandemic, the most passionate and committed educators continue to leave the profession at alarming rates.
Are you ready to use science-backed tools to help transform your school community with cutting edge strategies?
Our Impact
Violence Infractions Reduced Up To 90%
Perceived Stress Reduced Up to 70%
800% Increase in Honor Roll
450% Increase in Adequate Yearly Performance
Breathing LIFE Into Education
SKY Schools is an empirically-validated and evidence-based SEL curriculum, serving youth and adults. It is designed to be the most comprehensive socio-emotional well-being program available, integrating all of the evidence-based practices for student well-being and emotional & social intelligence.
- Evidence-based breathwork & neural restorative practices (including yoga & meditation)
- Emotional intelligence training
- Leadership training
- Service learning
- Social connection & belonging
- Self-management tools
- Positive psychology
- Conflict management
Researched by
Students regularly practicing SKY Breathing report feeling
Felt better able to manage stress, emotions
Felt Calmer & More Relaxed
Reported better able to focus, and better quality of sleep
Uplift Your School From The Inside Out
Our unique curriculum combines online learning, independent study, group work, and an in-person retreat. Through this training, your educators will:
- Gain mastery of the research-backed K-12 SKY Schools SEL, breathwork and wellness program.
- Develop an invaluable daily SKY breathing practice to transform student and educator wellbeing.
- Become part of an uplifting, supportive community with daily and weekly training sessions.
- Receive a personal coach to support and answer any questions they may have.
- Learn to host transformative workshops for parents and other educators.
- Gain access to SKY School’s entire library of online learning and development resources.
Our Impact
Violence Infractions
Reduced Up To
90%
Increase in
Honor Roll
800%
Perceived Stress
Reduced Up To
70%
Increase in Adequate
Yearly Performance
450%
The US Surgeon General has called the youth mental health crisis the defining public health emergency of this generation.
Dealing with these difficult emotions seriously affects students and educators, making students feel disconnected from their communities, causing some of the most passionate and committed educators to leave the profession.
This science-backed program gives students and educators everything they need to succeed in and outside of the classroom, providing noticeable benefits from just the first session.
The Heart of The Training
Cognitive and Physiological SEL Facilitation
Equip your educators with a comprehensive social-emotional curriculum combining the best practices in youth and adult wellness and emotion regulation
The Art of the Question
Teachers will master the Socratic method of teaching through questions and listening, guiding rich interactive and experiential sessions
The Power of Play
Your school will discover the dynamic interplay that drives learning and insight through experience, inquiry, and firsthand encounters
Meditation & Breathwork
Students and educators will attain profound awareness and inner peace through “effortless” practice, and reduce stress and increase energy, focus and joy through targeted breathing techniques
Movement
Learn to lead yoga asanas for energy, ease, focus, and somatic health and wellbeing
Community Transformation
Unlock the power of restorative practices to build community, improve communication and teamwork, and foster a culture for positive personal and interpersonal growth
Our dynamic teaching methods help educators keep students engaged, motivated and attentive, all while giving them the toolkit they need to lead better lives
SKY Schools gives you everything your team needs to get started.
Upon completing this program, you will be able to:
- Teach effective skills for responsible decision-making and managing complex emotions.
- Harness and facilitate powerful breathwork techniques to relieve anxiety, stress, and frustration.
- Empower students through meaningful connection, communication, and compassion.
- Cultivate inclusive and nurturing classroom environments.
- Enrich your school’s climate by uplifting mental health and wellness, social connection, and collective human values.
Your educators will receive the practice-based techniques, teaching resources, and community-building tools to transform your school from the inside out.
Credits & Credentials
SKY Schools Facilitator Certification
Certifies you to lead comprehensive SEL, breath work, and wellness curriculum for youth in K-12 schools and youth service organizations.
Continuing Ed Credits
Access 1-150 hours of continuing ed credit for your state and professional license
SKY Breathing Meditation Teacher Training
Complete the course prerequisites to teach SKY Breath Meditation to adults around the world.
Let’s Discuss if this the Right Training for Your School
What Teachers Are Sharing
"Catalyzes inner awareness and higher human potential"
The SKY Schools program catalyzes inner awareness and higher human potential in our students by teaching them powerful body-mind practices. I feel honored to support the work of SKY Schools in our East Side community!
"Providing focus and reducing stress throughout the rest of my day"
In a world of constant interruptions, I have found that my morning 20-minute breathing practice, learned in the SKY Schools Educators Course, to be a treasured moment of peace, providing focus and reducing stress throughout the rest of my day.
"One of the few professional development sessions I have attended over the years which I found valuable and profound on a personal level"
It was one of the few professional development sessions I have attended over the years which I found valuable and profound on a personal level. The experience was transformative resulting in the incorporation of a regular breathing and meditation practice for myself and my children.
Meet Your Mentors
DEIRDRE JACKSON
SKY SCHOOLS TRAINING DIRECTOR
Deirdre studied psychology and sociology at Clemson University in South Carolina and helped to found The Tracy Jackson Foundation, which provides support to battered women and self-empowerment programs for underprivileged girls.
WILLIAM HERMAN
SKY SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL TRAINING DIRECTOR
Bill received his BFA, MFA and teaching credentials from the Art Institute of Chicago. He founded SKY Schools and has trained SKY Schools teachers in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and England as well as the United States.
RONDI SEWELSON
SKY SCHOOLS LEAD TEACHER & MENTOR
Rondi Sewelson taught with the NYC Department of Education for 30 years. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in Theatre Arts, and her M.A. from New York University. She is a Drama Therapist, a New York State licensed Creative Arts Therapist, English, Theatre, and Special Ed teacher.
CHRISTOPHER STEER
SKY SCHOOLS LEAD TEACHER & MENTOR
SKY Schools Teacher Steer completed his coursework at the University of Maryland for a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Health; and Drexel University’s School of Public Health for a Master’s in Public Health. He has a passion and desire for engaging and empowering under-served communities.DEIRDRE JACKSON
SKY SCHOOLS TRAINING DIRECTOR
Deirdre studied psychology and sociology at Clemson University in South Carolina and helped to found The Tracy Jackson Foundation, which provides support to battered women and self-empowerment programs for underprivileged girls.WILLIAM HERMAN
SKY SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL TRAINING DIRECTOR
Rondi Sewelson taught with the NYC Department of Education for 30 years. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in Theatre Arts, and her M.A. from New York University. She is a Drama Therapist, a New York State licensed Creative Arts Therapist, English, Theatre, and Special Ed teacher.RONDI SEWELSON
SKY SCHOOLS LEAD TEACHER & MENTOR
Rondi Sewelson taught with the NYC Department of Education for 30 years. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in Theatre Arts, and her M.A. from New York University. She is a Drama Therapist, a New York State licensed Creative Arts Therapist, English, Theatre, and Special Ed teacher.CHRISTOPHER STEER
SKY SCHOOLS LEAD TEACHER & MENTOR
SKY Schools Teacher Steer completed his coursework at the University of Maryland for a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Health; and Drexel University’s School of Public Health for a Master’s in Public Health. He has a passion and desire for engaging and empowering under-served communities.Take Your First Step
Ready to give your educators the toolkit they need to boost student well-being and transform school culture?
Let’s explore if the SKY Schools Teacher Training Program is right for your school!
