Jordan S. Grinstein

Experience

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  Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

  Mar 2011 - Jul 2018

  Program Assistant

  • Assisted in various wellness and yoga programs at prestigious health center including four separate Yoga Teacher Trainings to provide guidance to teachers in training• Helped facilitated discussions in program called Quarter Life Calling, aimed to call forth young people in their 20s to their life mission while offering participants the tools to create their dream life. • Taught yoga classes in Spanish specifically for the Spanish-speaking staff members, including house keeping, kitchen staff, and cleaning staff, to equalize access to the benefits of yogic tools. Show less

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  MeadowRidge Academy Justice Resource Institute

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Therapeutic Yoga Instructor

  • Taught trauma sensitive and trauma healing yoga classes to intensive and emotionally handicapped adolescents young people, ages 13-21. • Offered mindfulness, emotional learning skills, to increase resiliency, gumption, and efficacy.

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  Boston Latin School

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2014

  Head Yoga Instructor

  • Taught weekly yoga classes to seventh graders throughout the academic school year for yoga research projected organized by Kripalu Institute of Extraordinary Living in collaboration with Harvard Medical School by teaching.

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  University of New Hampshire

  Sept 2013 - May 2015

  Guest Lecturer and Yoga Instructor

  • Lectured 180 University of New Hampshire students about alternative medicine, Ayurveda, breath work, meditation, and mindfulness. • Guided yoga classes to lab sections of general education science course "Stressed Out" to promote effective coping skills and stress management for college students.

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  Ivy Child International

  Jun 2014 - now

  Mindfulness Learning Ambassador

  • Provide equity and mindfulness professional development for administrators and educators at numerous educational and service institutions throughout New England• Facilitate wellness workshops for the City of Boston Department of Health and Human Resources • Train multicultural youth groups to lead meditation and SEL experiences for their home and school communities and certify them as Ivy Child International Mindfulness Learning Ambassadors

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  Prospect Hill Academy Charter School

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

  Mindfulness Teacher

  • Trained youth groups, ages 9 – 12, to become mindfulness ambassadors by empowering specific students to lead meditations in their classrooms, homes, and communities. • Integrated mindfulness into school routines and culture by leading daily meditations over the PA systems, leading weekly mindfulness practices in staff profession development sessions. • Facilitated social emotional learning exercises, such as mind tricks, breathing, yoga, and community building activities, in classroom settings to promote physical, emotionally, and spiritual wellness. Show less

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  Breathe For Change

  Aug 2018 - Apr 2021

  Yoga Teacher Trainer

  • Lead 200-hr yoga teacher trainings for school educators, counselors, and administrators focusing on the intersection of social justice and individual and community wellness and agency• Guide culturally responsive and trauma sensitive embodied experiences to enhance the social emotional wellness and intelligence of program participants and certify them as yoga instructors• Develop and deliver curricula specialized in profound breath practices designed to promote societal transformation by enhancing individual connections between emotional, mental, and physical bodies. Show less

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  Seeds For Equity

  Jan 2020 - now

  Facilitator

  -Co-facilitate year-long racial equity professional development for educators and administrators to create a more just and inclusive Barnstable Public and Josiah Quincy Elementary School communities-Lead white staff members in race-based breakout group discussion and activities focused on transformative solidarity, dismantling myths of supremacy, unpacking hidden curriculum, interrupting microaggressions, and creating visions for equity in their classrooms and school communities-Implement research-based approaches to developing critical consciousness: the awareness of identity and structural power and violence as a beginning step to systemic change-Collaborate with co-facilitators to equitably deliver antiracist PD curriculum Show less

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  Breathe For Justice

  Jan 2021 - now

  Learning Facilitator

  - Facilitate racial equity professional development for City of Malden educators and administrators- Develop culturally responsive social justice and wellness curricula uniquely tailored to the diverse populations of Malden High School students and staff members- Deliver workshops to empower white and students of color with language and awareness practices to understand and navigate systems of oppression - Cocreate safety within a brave and vulnerable space for participants with varied exposure to racial equity concepts and varied life experiences to engage in the nuanced challenges of DEI discussions- Collaborate with City of Malden, Malden Public School administrators, and non-profit Ivy Child International to survey and collect data on the efficacy and impact of the program Show less

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  WholeSchool Mindfulness

  Aug 2021 - now

  Mindfulness Director

  Create and Deliver Mindfulness, Yoga, Meditation, SEL, and wellness programming across the Shrewsbury Public Schools District.