Breathe Together, Grow Together: Adult + Child Yoga and Mindfulness
A Series for Children in 5K-2nd Grade and Their Special Adult. Father figures are particularly encouraged to attend. Strengthen your bond, nurture calm, and create joyful memories through yoga, mindfulness, movement, and play!
What is Breathe Together, Grow Together ?
Breathe Together, Grow Together is a fun and engaging 4-week yoga and mindfulness series designed for children in Kindergarten through 2nd grade and a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or other special adult. Father figures are particularly encouraged to attend. Through partner yoga poses, mindful movement, breathing exercises, relaxation practices, stories, games, and guided mindfulness activities, participants will learn simple tools to support physical well-being, emotional regulation, focus, and connection both at home and in everyday life.
How It Works
Each session will offer opportunities to:
Explore yoga through playful movement and imagination
Practice mindful breathing techniques to help manage stress and big emotions
Develop awareness of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations
Build confidence, balance, coordination, and flexibility
Strengthen the adult-child relationship through shared experiences and partner activities
Cultivate mindfulness skills that encourage focus, resilience, gratitude, and kindness
Learn practical calming tools that can be used at school, home, and in daily routines
Create meaningful moments of connection in a supportive community
Dates and Times of the Program
4 Saturdays: Sept 19, Oct 17, Nov 21, Dec 19
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
What You’ll Need
Participants should bring a yoga mat (one adult and one for child) and a water bottle. Please wear comfortable clothes that allow movement.
Registration
The cost of this series is $30 per session (for adult/child pair) or $100 if registering for all 4 sessions.
Please pre-register as space is limited. The class is limited to 12 adult/child pairs.
Partial and full scholarships are available. Email Admin@thethresholdcenter.org for confidential inquiry.
Meeting Location
Each session will be offered at the beautifully remodeled Threshold Center at 3794 Crosshaven Drive, Vestavia Hills/ Cahaba Heights, AL 35223.
Susanna Whitsett
Facilitator
Susanna Whitsett
For the last seven years, Susanna has served as the founding Executive Director of Founders Place at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church. Prior to Founders Place, Susanna worked at Camp McDowell, the camp and conference center for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. It was here, growing up, that Susanna was “formed and transformed” by the experience of Christian camp community. These experiences inspired her to return to McDowell. Through the years, Susanna directed over 100 camps and retreats, all of which were primarily in service of one goal: creating community. She and her family have spent significant amounts of time at Camp McDowell where being closer to nature and immersed in eco-friendly living have informed how she views and moves in the natural world. Susanna continues to stay involved with Camp McDowell, seeing it as a “thin space” and, as stated in McDowell’s mission, “...the way the world could be”.
As the new Executive Director, I am honored to steward the mission of The Threshold Center and to support it continuing as a place of welcome, connection and healing. I am committed to expanding the Center’s reach while remaining faithful to its soul. With deep gratitude and humility, I look forward to journeying with the community—listening, learning and leaning into existing and new programs where transformation can gently unfold. I recognize and appreciate the trust of Saint Stephen’s and Threshold Center communities in me to step into this important role. Susanna
