Gail Silver, JD, E-RYT, RYT, RCYT, YACEP

Gail Silver founded The School Mindfulness Project® in 2016 after fifteen years as Founder and Director of Philadelphia’s Yoga Child. As director of Yoga Child, Gail develops its school-based yoga and mindfulness curriculum, facilitates training programs, and trains educators to teach yoga and mindfulness in Philadelphia schools. Gail is also the award-winning children’s book author of  Mindful Bea and The Worry Tree (Magination Press, 2019) and the  Anh’s Anger Children’s book trilogy (Parallax Press, 2009, 2011, 2014). Lauded by Publisher’s Weekly as “A Winning Series,” the trilogy teaches children to navigate their stronger emotions through mindfulness and meditation and is enjoyed therapeutically and in classrooms across the country. Learn more about Gail and her mindfulness books for children at gailsilver.com. 

A contributing writer to Lions Roar, and screenwriter of the animated family film, Planting Seeds of Mindfulness, Gail has traveled nationally and internationally to facilitate yoga and mindfulness based education and trainings. Prior to becoming a yoga and mindfulness educator in 1999, Gail was a child advocate attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

Gail is humbled to have had her work earn a steady stream of accolades and recognition, including Best of Philadelphia awards, a Parents Choice Award, and a Skipping Stones award for Multicultural Awareness. Mostly, she is excited to bring her experience sharing mind body programming with youth, to The SMP.

Officers and Directors

President:  Bidi McSorely, M.D.
Vice President:  Katayun Jaffari, Esquire
Treasurer:  Bidi McSorely, M.D.
Secretary:  Hally Bayer, MS

Board Members

Bidi McSorely, M.D.
Marsha I. Cohen, Esquire
Esther Wyss-Flamm, Ph.D, M.Ed, E-RYT
Katayun Jaffari, Esquire
Hally Bayer, MS
Rachael Katz, MS
Jonathan Segal
Martin Blank

Alexandra Tomlinson, MSSP, MPS, RYT

Committees  And Teams

Programs & Research 

Chair: Bidi McSorely, MD,

Jessica Listino, EdS, NCSP, LBS, RYT 
Rachael Katz, M.Ed.
Martin Blank

Finance
Mark Gittleman, Esquire,
Bidi McSorely, M.D.

Fundraising    
Chair: Bidi McSorely, MD

Colette Marie McCaine, E-RYT, YACEP
Katy Kopntisky, RYT
Hally Bayer 
Marsha  I. Cohen, Esq.
Rachael Katz, M.Ed.
Marie Gould
Alexandra Tomlinson
Esther Wyss-Flamm
Martin Blank
Marie Gould
Lindsay Kolakauskas

Marketing
Chair: Jonathan Segal
Sarah Feinberg
Marie Gould

Strategic Planning  
Esther Wyss-Flamm, Ph.D, M.Ed

SMP Educators and Yoga Teachers

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