Well Balanced Kids was established in August 2018 with the organisation becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in May 2021. Our charitable purpose is:

Dominique founded Well Balanced Kids because she is passionate about children's health and well-being. For fifteen years Dominique worked with adults with complex mental and physical health needs, establishing a charity in 2007 - Creative Future – enabling adults who face multiple barriers to express themselves via their creative talents. Dominique is highly experienced in working with vulnerable people with complex needs. She decided she wanted to increase children's resilience  to encourage long term positive mental and physical health .

Dominique is a trained children's yoga teacher and leadership coach trained in neuro linguistic programming, non violent communication and coaching techniques. By using these skills, and years of experience of working with people with complex mental and physical needs, she shows children how to build on their own resources, believe in themselves and learn the tools for long term positive mental and physical health. Contact Dominique by clicking this link.

Laura Clark has more than fifteen years of youth work, teaching and frontline NHS health promotion experience, specialising in supporting vulnerable young people. Combining her workplace skills and love of yoga, she trained as a yoga and mindfulness teacher, specialising in youth yoga (aged 11 and above) and working with those with learning disabilties. Since 2016 she has used her connections within youth support, community and public sector agencies in Sussex to deliver yoga and mindfulness sessions to  young people with aims of encouraging positive mental health, to feel a purpose in life and to create connections and peer support networks. Laura also teaches adult yoga in the community and in the workplace. For more information on Laura's other classes see: www.facebook.com/relaxinglaura

Andrea is the founder of Om Yoga Kids, through which she delivers yoga and mindfulness sessions to primary and secondary schools, and, in collaboration with YogaBeez Children’s Yoga School, runs CPD training courses on equity and diversity in children’s yoga. 

As a mother of two children and a qualified primary school teacher, Andrea is experienced working with children. Combining her own passion for yoga and mindfulness with an intention to support young people’s wellbeing beyond the classroom, she shares yoga, meditation and mindfulness as tools to help them cope with the stresses of our modern fast-paced, media-saturated life. Andrea’s mission is to make yoga more accessible to the school and wider community, to create safe spaces for those who do not typically practice yoga or see themselves represented in those spaces. Andrea's classes are dynamic, down-to-earth, nurturing and playful.

Carly Rhodes is a qualified primary school teacher. She has been working in various roles within education for the past 20 years. Her own passion for mindfulness and yoga led her to train to teach yoga and mindfulness to children. She has successfully completed the Mindfulness in Schools Project course as well as the ChillSquad training programme. She is also a certified children's yoga teacher.

For the last four years she has taught mindfulness and yoga at Goldstone Primary school from Reception - Year 6 as part of the school curriculum. As well as teaching whole class sessions, she has run small intervention groups and taught private mindfulness and yoga sessions from her home. She has spoken at conferences on the role of mindfulness in education, and is passionate about the positive effects yoga and mindfulness can have on children's mental and physical wellbeing. 

Tamsin is the founder of Sprite Yoga and is a yoga teacher based in Brighton who has taught yoga for over 10 years. She teaches regularly in both primary and secondary schools throughout Sussex. She is a registered Yoga Teacher Trainer with Yoga Alliance Professionals and as such runs training CPD courses to equip primary and secondary PE teachers with basic skills to be able to offer yoga with their young people. Tamsin is also a qualified teacher and has taught Dance and Drama in secondary and further education for many years. 

Tamsin is fascinated by the inseparable nature of physical and mental health and aims to support people of all ages to make positive changes in their lives. Her classes often include opportunities for creation and self-expression and always aim to build body awareness, physical skills and confidence.