Our Teachers - Kid Fun Yoga with Miss Jenni

Jennifer Gruher

I began my yoga journey about 10 years ago with the goal of simply becoming more flexible. I could barely touch my toes! I have always loved working with children. I graduated from the University of Florida with an undergrad and Masters Degree in elementary education. I completed my kids yoga certification through Kidding Around Yoga in the summer of 2019. The more classes I took, the more I fell in love with the practice. Each class left me feeling a sense of peace, calm, and balance. I wanted to deepen my understanding of yoga and connect more to my mind, body, and breath.

My curiosity continued to grow and I completed my Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Dorje Yoga in Feb. 2019. I strongly believe that I will always be a student of the practice and I will continue to create space to learn, grow, and evolve. My teaching style combines creative and intelligent sequencing and is challenging, inspiring, and empowering. My personal practice has helped me to grow stronger physically, mentally, and spiritually, both on and off the mat. I am reminded through yoga to live life in the present, mindfully and consciously.

My kids classes embody the principle of integral yoga and are taught through the same philosophy as adult classes. Each age-appropriate integral yoga class is taught with breathing practices, mindfulness activities, meditation and mantra exercises, poses and postures that focus on strength, flexibility, and balance, and tons of playfulness, happiness, and fun! I have seen yoga bring incredible peace, harmony, and focus for individuals of all ages. I live a yogic lifestyle and lead my classes in a way that reflects this choice. It is my personal goal to show you how nurturing and beneficial yoga can be to all areas of one’s life.

Jenni graduated from the University of Florida with a Masters Degree in Education. She completed her kids yoga certification through Kidding Around Yoga in 2017. Jenni has always loved working with children. Her two passions, kids and yoga, came together in 2017 and Kid Fun Yoga, LLC. was born! Kid Fun Yoga teachers have a shared vision. Our intention is to “plant the seed” of curiosity in yoga, and give children the tools they need to navigate big emotions and challenging situations through love and compassion. Each age-appropriate Kid Fun Yoga class is taught with breathing practices like Lion’s Breath, mindfulness games, guided meditations, partner poses and songs. Classes focus on strength, flexibility, and balance, and of course tons of playfulness, happiness, and FUN!

Jenni completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training with Dorje Yoga in February 2019 and is certified with Yoga Alliance.

Jackie Reckson

Jackie is a Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with over 8000 hours of teaching Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Yin, Therapeutic, Aerial Yin Restorative, Special Needs, and Kids Yoga. She is a proud Jersey Girl who has been living in Atlanta since 1991. Yoga found Jackie around 2003 while teaching group fitness at a gym after her youngest child was diagnosed with a neurological disorder. No other “exercise” had this effect of peace and calm she found in her yoga class. It taught her how to stay present, to accept things the way they are, and how to get through the struggles of life one breath at a time. For Jackie, yoga is all about the practice, not the perfection. It’s about allowing yourself to be where you are on a particular day and being okay with that. It’s about accepting yourself for who you are, and remembering that yoga and life are journeys with ebbs and flows along the way. Jackie’s mission is to inspire her students to deepen their awareness of their self, connect with their bodies, and enrich their experiences on and off the mat. She especially loves working with kids and getting them started at a young age to be mindful, learn coping mechanisms, teaching them how to breathe properly, and move mindfully. If only we all started yoga as kids!

Sara Bryan

Sara started her yoga journey as a source of physical and mental “therapy,” but she soon saw her practice as something much more. As a former athlete, the importance of “healthy mind and body” became all too real after a life changing diagnosis. She quickly found the healing powers of yoga and its community was something she longed for even before her diagnosis. Now, there’s not a day that goes by without her getting on her mat.

Sara hails from Louisiana, and brings a joyful yet soulful style, “joie de vie,” in both her teaching and way of life. Her compassionate nature facilitates a welcoming environment that allows her students to comfortably learn about their own bodies and minds, from physical strength to mental calmness. She believes that yoga is much more than just the poses; it’s about learning from your past, strengthening your present and building your future. Most importantly, it’s about you, ALL of you, from “soul to sole”!

Sara completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Grey Owl in 2020 and is certified with Yoga Alliance.

Mina Menon

Mina is from the birth place of Yoga— India. Growing up in Bombay and her father being an Ayurvedic Vaidya, yoga was always a part of her life. As a young girl she learned Yoga from her father by practicing a few stretches here and there as play. When Mina was a teenager, her father inspired her to join one of the oldest Yoga institutes of India for a summer camp. Life happened, Mina moved to the US and continued yoga on and off.

In her life in the states, Mina worked as a para professional at an elementary school. Working with kids was always her dream. During the chaos of the pandemic and quarantine, Mina came across an online course from The Yoga Institute in India, the same institute she had attended as a teen. She completed her 500 hrs RYT certification. This is when she learned the deeper meaning of Yoga— it was more than the physical movements she had learned in the past; it was a philosophy and a lifestyle practice.

Mina continued on her yoga journey and completed a certification for children’s Yoga from the Yoga Education Institution. Her practice continues every day as a student of Yoga herself and she is so grateful to have come full circle— giving children the opportunity she had as a child to learn about their Yoga journey.