What we’ve achieved
Our key impacts year by year
2026
Teen Yoga was shortlisted for the NIA fellowship 2026.
2025
Teen Yoga was a finalist in the category of Best Health and Fitness organisation at the Bath Life Awards 2025
Collaboration with London Youth to develop and deliver the third iteration of the Good for Girls programme which aims to reach 750 girls from young black, Asian and/or minority ethnic communities girls in South London.
Teen Yoga staff will help to run the EU funded READY project Summer school in Veduna, Slovenia in June. This event is aimed at international youth workers looking to implement the newly piloted READY progamme in their countries.
2024
Teen Yoga was present at the Family area of the World Yoga Festival in Henley in early August
Teen Yoga participated in the inaugaural UK Yoga Research Network symposium at Westminster University in October
Charlotta Martinus managed the Teen Yoga panel at the conference .
We were present at the Schools and Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham in November.
2023
Favourite Charity Nominee 2023
Bath University invited the Teen Yoga Foundation to be part of a pilot programme within social prescribing, supporting the wellbeing of new students across Bath University and training them to share yoga with their peers.
Workshop speaker – Teen Panel on Yoga as a Mental Health Tool
Collaboration with London Youth to develop and deliver the second iteration of the Good for Girls programme which reached 750 girls from young black, Asian and/or minority ethnic communities girls in South London.
Teen Yoga Summit
November- Our 7th Annual Teen Yoga conference was held online as it had been since 2020 due to the lockdown.
2022
Teen Yoga & Yoga in Schools – invited as a speaker and mini-workshops, discussing the importance of the need for Yoga in schools and the positive outcomes backed by research within schools.
Workshop speaker – In discussion with Teen Yoga Ambassadors and how yoga has directly helped them in life
CAMHS first
December – The first ever Teen yoga Therapist job in the NHS is offered at Southampton CAMHS.
Parliament
October – We held a drop-in event for MPs in the Houses of Commons, to tell them about the benefits of yoga for young people.
Teen Yoga Summit
November- Our 7th Annual Teen Yoga conference was held online as it has been since 2020 due to the lockdown.
Teen Yoga Therapy course
June – Teen Yoga announces the launch in 2023 of the 400 hr Teen Yoga Therapy course
2021
Teen Yoga & Yoga in Schools – invited as a speaker and mini-workshops, discussing the importance of the need for Yoga in schools and the positive outcomes backed by research within schools.
Teen Yoga for PE Teachers
Launch of Teen Yoga introductory course for PE Teachers online
Collaboration with London Youth to develop and deliver the Good for Girls programme which reached 750 girls from young black, Asian and/or minority ethnic communities girls in South London.
Teen Yoga Ambassadors
Launch Teen Yoga Ambassador scheme for young people to operate peer-to-peer support across the country, online and face to face
Here to Be
Here to Be regional partner Lululemon – reaching 700 disadvantaged young people with yoga and launching the Teen Yoga Ambassador scheme
2020
Bath Life Awards – Charity – Finalist 2020
The Festival Of Education
Teen Yoga & Yoga in Schools – invited as a speaker and mini-workshops, discussing the importance of the need for Yoga in schools and the positive outcomes backed by research within schools.
Faith schools
We developed a programme for a Muslim school in North London, delivering yoga to 14 yr olds, reaching 90 pupils over one term as part of a PhD project.
Here to Be
Lululemon local Here to Be partner. The Foundation financed projects bringing yoga to young people for free.
Teen Yoga Zen Challenge
We created 66 free videos to support mental health of young people during lockdown 1, which have been watched over 5000 times in school settings and at home.
Teen Yoga Bursaries
We reached the milestone of 100 bursaries in our bursary programme in 2020. Over 100 people have had financial support for the Teen Yoga training.
2019
Festival of Education
This was our first participation at the Festival of Education. We provided demonstrations of Teen Yoga for young people and teachers in a very hot tent!
Teen Yoga in South Africa
We trained 12 teachers to share yoga in the townships of Johannesburg to over 1200 students.
Teen Yoga in Paris
The first Teen Yoga course in Paris.
Hippocampus results
These were published at the end of the project. The results showed very positive effects.
2018
Yoga in Schools
Yoga in Schools CIC became part of Teen Yoga, enabling us to deliver Teen Yoga directly in schools across the UK
Teen Yoga in Australia
First edition of the Teen yoga training course in Australia
Teen Yoga in UAE
The Teen Yoga training course was adapted to the needs of yoga teachers in Abu Dhabi
Hippocampus field trials
We tested the Hippocampus programme in field trials in 5 countries (750 disadvantaged students and 100 teachers)
2017
Om Yoga
We participated in the Om Yoga Show at Alexandra Palace. Since 2016 we have participated in more than 20 education and yoga conferences and fairs.
Sierra Leone
We trained 26 yoga teachers (ex-child soldiers) to share yoga with est. 2600 traumatised youth in orphanages across the country
Start of Hippocampus
EU-funded collaboration with Norwegian University of Science and Technology, OXFAM Italia, University of Salamanca and Youth Exchange and Understanding to develop and pilot a programme for disadvantaged young people.
Anna Freud/ UCL
We started our collaboration with Anna Freud and UCL, supporting student theses focusing on yoga in schools on their combined Masters degree in Psychology.
2016
APPG on Yoga starts
2016-2019 We were invited to develop the yoga in schools arm of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Yoga in Society, and presented at the Houses of Commons on 5 occasions, focusing on the range of financial, healthcare and educational benefits of yoga for schools.
Leeds University
Collaboration with the Psychology department at Leeds university. The research involved 20 11 yr olds at a school in Bath, as part of an MA dissertation.
Teen Yoga Foundation set up
The charity was launched in January , after a long gestation.
Yoga Girls Can
This innovation project funded by Sport England reached 750 young women with yoga to help with their mental health. We travelled to all the university campuses in the West of England with a large pink yurt!
2003 – 2015
First Instill conference
The first conference was in 2015, and has continued since. Around 100 people per year come to find out more about what we have been doing.
Sport England support
2010-2015 – Sport England fund yoga in secondary schools in the West of England
Training course with Special Yoga
2012 – First edition of the Teen Yoga training course in collaboration with Special Yoga.
First Teen Yoga Training courses
2005 – As she was invited into more schools Charlotta began to train other yoga teachers in ways of providing yoga to young people.
First Teen Yoga class
2003 Charlotta’s first class with a group of 14 year olds in North Somerset was not a success. This is what moved her to start thinking about the kind of yoga class young people might need.