Lara Hocheiser

Lara Hocheiser, E-RTY, RCYT, RCYS, YACEP, is the Founder of Flow and Grow Kids Yoga, a Registered Children’s Yoga School, Mindfulness for Beginners in Ten Minutes a Day: Mindfulness to Bring Clarity and Calm to your Morning, Day, and Night. Her mindfulness workbook for children ages 5-7 will be released in October 2021. She is the author of the My Yoga Workbook series, and hundreds of lesson plans, blogs, and courses, which have been adopted by thousands of individuals, schools, and school districts nationwide.

Lara has trained more than 300 people in the career track of children’s yoga and mindfulness and has worked with hundreds of educators, mental health professionals, yogis and mindfulness professionals, parents, and enrichment specialists.

Lara has worked in the early childhood education sector for 20 years. She began her career as a Spanish Immersion teacher, and during that time she integrated yoga, social-emotional learning, and mindfulness into circle time. She has over 15 years of experience studying, teaching, and living the yoga path. She has taught more than 9,000 hours of early childhood yoga and mindfulness classes to date. She continues to speak at university early childhood education departments.

Lara worked full-time as a yoga and mindfulness teacher teaching hot yoga, prenatal yoga, mindfulness for educators, children's yoga to ages 0-22 for more than 5 years prior to shifting to writing and teacher training.

Lara wrote for the website gaia.com from 2015-2017 on yoga philosophy, children’s yoga, and yoga techniques.

Lara has been a presenter at the National Children's Yoga Conference as well as a panelist, and has been interviewed by more than 10 podcasts.

Lara’s blog won the #5 kids yoga blog worldwide, claiming this title based on editorial choice for the free, high-quality resources, illustrations of children of all walks of life, tips for parents and teachers, and interviews. She follows a secular model to teach focus, relaxation, and healthy habits to educators, parents, children, and clinicians.

Lara and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.