Emily Fleming

Emily Fleming (MAT, RYT500, RCYT) is a certified educator with over a decade of classroom teaching experience, a certified yoga instructor and the founder of Yoga In Classrooms And Schools Consulting (YCSC). After three years of teaching special education on the West and South Side of Chicago, Emily spent 8 years teaching yoga and mindfulness as a daily enrichment class at a middle school in Baltimore, MD. During her time teaching in Baltimore, she developed a 3-year curriculum focused on using yoga and mindfulness as a means of exploring SEL competencies, and incorporated Project Based Learning and Arts Integration into her curriculum. Emily founded YCSC in early 2022 and left the classroom in June of 2023. She now works with schools, districts, and other youth serving organizations to help them develop and implement customized yoga and mindfulness programming to better support the wellbeing of students and staff.