BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2eee3daf285d3ebfe1f6af3acd4c72b225 CATEGORIES:Program SUMMARY:2019 April Program Luncheon LOCATION:Sangamo Club\, 227 E Adams Street\, Springfield, IL 62701 DESCRIPTION:
Speaker: Ashley Krstulovich, Founder of the Student Yoga Mi
ndfulness Project
Mindfulness and How it Relates to Leadership and Dec
ision Making
Join us for our monthly luncheon, open to all IWIL members and their guests. Registration is $18 per person on or bef ore April 12 and $23 after April 12 or at the door.
“If you unde
rstand enough about where you’re going, everything becomes a vehicle throug
h which you get free.”
-Ram Dass
Ashley Krstulovich, founder of the Student Yoga and Mindfulness Project (SYMP), believe s that every child has the innate ability to be a successful member of thei r school and the community... even though she spent most of her life being conditioned to think otherwise. Ashley will be sharing her personal story, her “why,” and how finding and following her authentic voice changed the co urse of her life in ways she’d only imagined. She will be speaking briefly on her programming, offering insight into how it works to empower students, teachers, and other school personnel with the skills and tools that will l ead to improved self-awareness, impulse control, confidence and resiliency in the school and beyond. Lastly, she will also be leading folks in a short seated mindfulness meditation, giving each participant the opportunity to experience some of the effects of her programming firsthand.
ABOUT TH E SPEAKER:
Ashley received her 200-ho
ur yoga teacher training certificate from Ahh Yoga in January 2017 and is a
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. She is trained in Mindfu
lness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and studied with Mindful Schools to bec
ome a K-12 mindfulness educator. Her areas of interests include: trauma-inf
ormed yoga, yoga nidra, and yoga/mindfulness for kids. She’s also trained u
nder James Fox, founder of the Prison Yoga Project (PYP), to become certifi
ed to teach trauma-informed practices. Currently, she is enrolled in an IRe
st Yoga Nidra immersion program with Stephanie Lopez.
Ashley’
s big dream of growing secular mindfulness training in her local grade scho
ols, prisons, and other underserved populations really took off in 2018. Si
nce receiving her 200RYT and quitting her 9-5 to teach yoga full-time, Ashl
ey has gone on to hold four successful fundraisers to bring the first Yoga
and Mindfulness Club to Washington Middle School and provide the means to v
olunteer on a regular basis at the Old Capital Farmers Market, with the Boy
s and Girls Club, Compass for Kids, the Kidzeum of Health and Science, as w
ell as present her mission at conferences with the Illinois Association of
Community Action Agencies and Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault. He
r most current Giving Tuesday fundraiser brought daytime programming to sev
en more area schools. She had the honor of offering MBSR training to milita
ry personnel at the 2018 Annual SHARP Refresher Training in Marseilles and
Springfield, Illinois. She founded the Student Yoga and Mindfulness Project
(SYMP), an initiative that has ushered mindfulness programming into severa
l District 186 schools, local organizations, summer camps, and public event
s, an accomplishment that led to her being the 2018 recipient of the Commun
ity Foundation for the Land of Lincoln’s Women Helping Women Award. She’s r
ecently expanded these efforts beyond city limits, bringing the program to
Decatur’s Eisenhower high school. A native of Springfield, she happily make
s a home here with her husband, Jim, and their fantastic daughter, Mira.
*IWIL is unable to provide refunds.
If you cannot attend an event for which you have registered, we encourage
you to send someone in your place. Simply have your guest indicate at the c
heck-in table that she is your substitute. We appreciate your understandin
g.