INNER CALM AND MINDFULNESS FOR KIDS AND ADULTS
WELCOME
Join us for 14 days of guided yoga poses designed to help you and the children in your care slow down, reconnect with your body and each other, and bring more mindfulness into your life.
Every day for two weeks, we will email you a short, accessible guide to a different yoga pose.
This challenge isn’t just about movement – it’s also about impact. By taking part, you’ll be supporting STEPi, a non-profit organization bringing books and literacy training to underserved communities across Africa.
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When you sign up, you will receive:
- Free emailed daily yoga poses for two weeks: suitable for all levels and ages.
- Mindful themes: From grounding and balance to gratitude and rest.
- A community of movers: Join others around the world taking the challenge.
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Benefits for you and your children
By taking part in this easy two-week yoga challenge, you and the children in your case will benefit physically, emotionally and mentally.
better mental focus and stronger, more flexible bodies
calmer minds and reduced anxiety
connection and togetherness
inspired by
when i slow down
The 14-day Family Yoga Challenge is based on When I Slow Down, a children’s story written by STEPi founder Paul H. Sutherland.
This fantastic book is about a young boy who learns to manage and identify his emotions through the help of different yoga poses. When I Slow Down helps the young reader learn to connect with their mind and body to help gain mastery over their physical and emotional responses to life.
one book can change a life
Donate to STEPi & Get A Free Book
Your donation goes directly towards STEPi’s literacy programmes in Africa.
When you give $20 or more, you’ll receive a complimentary copy of When I Slow Down — Paul’s inspiring guide for children to live with more presence and joy.
Utopia Foundation is registered with the Internal Revenue Services as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Reg #52-2392335). Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The STEPi Effect
ABOUT STEPi
Squaring the Education Pyramid Institute believes every child deserves the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. In many underserved communities in Africa, resources are scarce, leaving children with limited opportunities. STEPi works to “square the pyramid” by providing books, literacy training, and educational support to the foundation of the system – teachers, parents, and early learners.
By joining this yoga challenge, you’re helping STEPi reach more classrooms, train more educators, and put more books into the hands of children who need them most.
Children at the Forefront
STEPi provides creative, inspiring, engaging, culturally relevant books, literacy programs, and mentorship, ensuring every child can access learning materials that inspire them to dream big and actualize their dream.
Teachers at the Centre
From a grandmother with a few children in her township home, to school systems with thousands of students, STEPi equips educators in Africa with Teaching with Love and Parenting With Love seminars and resources that inspire, and empower them with tools, emotional intelligence strategies, and classroom techniques that create safe, nurturing spaces for happiness, love and learning. We see parents as teachers and teachers as parents.
Parents & Caregivers as Pillars
We offer Parenting With Love resources, helping African caregivers become active partners in their children's education and reinforcing literacy and emotional support at home and the community. Children then feel loved, and happy to live a life of positive values.
Communities at the Top
We connect with informal and formal libraries, schools, individuals and organizations in Africa to create learning ecosystems where resources are shared, sustained, and expanded, closing education gaps one child, one teacher, one book at a time.
A STEPI STORY BY PAUL H SUTHERLAND
THE FAMILY YOGA CHALLENGE INSPIRATION
This book helps readers learn how to connect with their emotions and body to gain mastery over their physical and emotional responses.
Through fun and easily accessible yoga poses, beautiful illustrations and an immersive story, this book teaches the young reader mindfulness. Learning to respond to their emotions, be it sadness, boredom, happiness or anger, with a sense of control and optimism comes from mindfully observing our emotions and surroundings.
why it works
theory of change model
1. Start with Access
Provide books, teacher and parental training, and support children and educators emotionally.
2. Empower Change
Equip teachers and parents with practical lifelong learning strategies.
3. Create Transformation
Build communities that support literacy, curiosity, inclusion and education.
4. Sustain the Future
Children grow into well-rounded, happy, loving, educated individuals who pay it forward, creating a ripple effect of positive change.
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