The Educator Collective

Prioritize Your Well-Being & Thrive in Community





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Your Membership Includes…

  • Teacher’s Lounge, a collaborative space of over 3,000 educators to ask questions, share resources, and engage in conversations
  • Daily Live Classes, including Yoga, Meditation & Mindfulness, Workshops, Socials, Wellness Retreats, and more
  • A library of 500+ on-demand classroom-ready mindfulness, wellness and SEL strategies for teachers to use in their classrooms
  • On-demand courses to learn how to teach yoga and mindfulness to students to support physical and mental health, with a focus on trauma-informed teaching and accessibility
Join the Educator Collective




We help you and your students thrive.

Reduce your stress & combat burnout

Nurture your wellbeing with hundreds of classes specifically designed to improve your physical and mental health as an educator.

Improve student behavior & social-emotional learning

Access classroom-ready, CASEL-aligned strategies to support behavior, engagement, and SEL in your classroom.

Join a community of educators & feel connected

Cultivate profound relationships with fellow educators dedicated to their wellness and stay committed to prioritizing your well-being.

Why Breathe For Change?

Rooted in Research

Our programs, strategies, and frameworks are based in science and evidence, and tied directly to measurable outcomes.

Trauma-Informed SEL and Mindfulness

We offer powerful wellness practices that help people feel safe, build resilience, and heal.

Accessible and Equitable

Our strategies and practices cultivate inclusion and belonging for the entire school community.

Community-Centered

Community is at the heart of what we do. We foster profound relationships that last a lifetime.





What’s Included in the Educator Collective

  • 500+ age-differentiated strategies for use in the classroom

  • 3 courses totaling 100+ hours of professional and personal development ($600 value)

    • Chair Yoga for Educators and Students
    • Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth by Yoga Ed.
    • Trauma-Informed Chair Yoga and Mindfulness for Youth by Yoga Ed.
  • 16 live-virtual weekly classes in yoga, meditation, wellness, and community-building

  • Over 200 recorded yoga and meditation classes to access on the go

  • Teacher’s Lounge to engage with passionate educators near you and across the U.S.





Meet Your Instructors

Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Michelle Cordero, MFA

Head Trainer

Shatera Weaver

Professional Development Lead

Brie Walker, M.S.

Lead Trainer

Kai Watkins

Restorative Practices District Coordinator

LaShawn Williams, Ph.D.

Social Work Educator, Therapist & Coach

Pamela Alles

Middle School Teacher

Stephanie Kynes

Special Needs PreK Teacher

Rachel Stetenfeld

Yoga Instructor

Danielle Anderson

Yoga Instructor & Nutrition and Life Coach

Ang E. Davis

Yoga Instructor

Jeremiah Zuba

Consultant

Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Michelle Cordero, MFA

Head Trainer

Shatera Weaver

Professional Development Lead

Brie Walker, M.S.

Lead Trainer

Kai Watkins

Restorative Practices District Coordinator

LaShawn Williams, Ph.D.

Social Work Educator, Therapist & Coach

Pamela Alles

Middle School Teacher

Stephanie Kynes

Special Needs PreK Teacher

Rachel Stetenfeld

Yoga Instructor

Danielle Anderson

Yoga Instructor & Nutrition and Life Coach

Ang E. Davis

Yoga Instructor

Jeremiah Zuba

Consultant

Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

San Francisco, CA

Dr. Ilana Nankin—the Founder & CEO of Breathe For Change—is an award-winning entrepreneur, teacher educator, and former public school teacher committed to using wellness as a vehicle for healing and social change. Ilana earned degrees in both psychology and education at UC Berkeley, and received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at University of Wisconsin. Her dissertation revealed the critical connection between educator well-being and student learning, and the positive impact that wellness and social-emotional learning can have on teachers and students’ lives. Inspired by her research, Ilana founded Breathe For Change, a movement on a mission to enhance the health and well-being of educators, students, and entire communities. Breathe For Change offers the world’s only 200-hour Mindfulness, SEL, and Yoga Teacher Training specifically for educators, and provides wellness and SEL professional development for schools, districts, and organizations. Since 2015, Breathe For Change has certified 10,000+ educators through their 200-hour training, who are now positively impacting the lives and well-being of over 2,000,000 students around the country.

Michelle Cordero, MFA

Head Trainer

Oakland, CA

Michelle Cordero, Breathe For Change’s Head Trainer, has devoted the last 3 decades to deepening her connection to and sharing the powerful practice of yoga with the world. Michelle has led retreats, workshops, and teacher trainings internationally, and was voted “Best Yoga Teacher of the East Bay” by Oakland Magazine. She is certified at the highest level with the Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 & YACEP credentials.

Michelle’s greatest passion is inspiring educators to teach yoga in an inclusive and accessible way. She teaches with a sense of humor, curiosity and compassion. Michelle’s classes are inclusive, gender affirming, trauma-informed and uniquely tailored to meet the needs of each student regardless of experience, age, gender, or body shape.Michelle has contributed greatly to the development of Breathe For Change’s 200-hour Training, 300-hour Training, Professional Development offerings, and Educator Collective events.

Michelle has her Master’s Degree, a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and is a Certified Wellness Coach and Craniosacral Work practitioner, and has trained with the Trauma Center’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TC-TSY) program and the Trauma Informed Resilience Oriented Approach (TIRO). She also completed a 75-hour Skill in Action training with Michelle C Johnson, focused on the intersection of Yoga and Social Justice. Michelle is inspired and honored to be guiding you along your yoga teaching journey.

Shatera Weaver

Professional Development Lead

Baltimore, MD

Shatera is a Special Educator and Breathe for Change graduate who’s love for yoga stemmed from her struggles with Sickle Cell Anemia. Shatera was born with a disease that impacts the red blood cells’ ability to carry and transfer oxygen efficiently. This has meant a frayed relationship with her body and physical activities throughout childhood into adulthood. Years ago, Shatera discovered asana through classes offered at a local gym, stating that “It was the only class I could complete without feeling inadequate or embarrassed. In fact, I left those classes feeling centered and emboldened.”

Grateful for this resource, she’s become devoted to sharing it with others. Especially after Shatera noticed that she was often the only one that looked like her in the gyms and studios she practiced in. This encouraged Shatera to earn her RYT200 from B4C in 2018, with the aim of helping more Black folx to meet on the mat – inviting their minds and bodies to reunite, as she’s been blessed to experience. Since then, Shatera began teaching asana and meditation classes, and implementing wellness practices into her curriculum and structures as Dean of Culture at a 6-12 NYC public school, and within her day to day life and interpersonal relationships.

Now, Shatera has reached RYT500, and serves as a curriculum designer for schools and after school programs all over the nation that challenge the current inadequate and inequitable status quo of the traditional education system. She offers services that rise from the intersection of wellness and education at byShatera.com

Brie Walker, M.S.

Lead Trainer

New York, NY

Brie is a self described lover of life. She truly believes there is no better way to honor the gift of life than to maximize your potential mentally, spiritually and physically. This is what led her to her the yoga practice and continues to keep her coming back to her mat. At the core of all of her values is equity. She believes that we, all, each being, deserves the opportunity to be our biggest and brightest selves and maximize our capability and fulfill our true purpose. Her mindfulness practice has pushed her professionally in the areas of educational activism and social awareness, because at the core of the practice is the deep awareness. Brie has been in the field of education since 2010. While volunteering during her undergraduate years at Spelman College was inspired to become an education. She developed a passion and understanding for working with students with disabilities. This prompted her to apply to the New York City Teaching fellows to pursue her master’s in Special Education at Hunter College. It didn’t take long for her to realize that the demands of working in a school were not only impacting her, but her colleagues and students, as well. The demands of education drew her to the yoga practice. In July 2017, she chose to deepen her practice by pursuing her RYT-200 Certification. She now shares mindfulness techniques with people of all ages and currently is a lead trainer at Breathe for Change.





Loved by Teachers

“I knew there had to be a way for me to approach my self-care while simultaneously providing my students with the same tools. Breathe For Change offered me a community to learn the skills needed to support my students’ physical and mental self-care and a space for me to practice, learn, and grow through yoga and SEL*F collaboration. Breathe For Change and their Educator Collective has completely changed my life.”

India G. Education Specialist

“The Breathe For Change Educator Collective is powerful. It allows members the space to practice by joining the live classes that are held daily. Wellness posts afford members the opportunity to be energized reflective humans being. The community access is priceless because you’re tapped into so much goodness, love and kindness. What I appreciate most are the monthly SEL Curriculum classes.”

China M. Teacher

“Breathe for Change is an empowering experience, not just as an educator but as a human being. I have found these strategies to be so helpful for my own self-care that is improving my ability to teach students and share practices to support them in their well-being. I am so grateful that I took the leap and began this journey. The classes and resources have been transformational for me and all my relationships.”

Katelyn R. High School Teacher




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