How to create Yoga and Mindfulness Coming of Age Circles for tweens

The first original CPD training of this kind returns!
Would you love to support tween girls through yoga & mindfulness? Would you like to understand how yoga can help tween girls navigate early puberty?

Hybrid Online 10-hour CPD Training. For Yoga teachers, Therapists and Teachers.

Video and Live Online sessions plus one extra 121 session with Elena.

This unique -10-hour training (the first of its kind in the UK) is back! After three successful runs for the YTF I am now running it as a three-part course running over three Saturdays in June.

Course outline

This course has been designed by Elena Riu following many years of working with tween girls and their parents running regular workshops.

Empowering girls to develop body literacy so they know their bodies, understand how they work and develop a feeling of sovereignty.


By the end of this course, you will have learned:

  •  How to hold space for 9–12-year-old girls
  •  Practices involving props, Mandala making, seasonal crafts and creativity in your classes,
  • How to use mindfulness games and skits to help manage big emotions. Thich Nhat Hanh Pebble Meditation (adapted by me) and Using the Bell,
  • How to use Yoga poses to empower, build confidence and sovereignty, self-regulation and menstrual literacy. Pair Yoga session,
  • Stages of Puberty step by step. Menstrual Cycle Awareness: the Inner Season model adapted for young girls and using the Moon as an early tracking device,
  • Nidra and visualisation techniques that are suitable for young girls,
  • Stress Management and self-regulation. Introduction to Coherent Breathing,
  • Techniques to help tween girls adjust to the transitions that will occur - e.g., go to secondary school & menarche (first period),
  • How to create your first class and attract clients,
  • Special 30% My Dear Period - A Guidebook, book discount for participants.

This unique 10-hour training (the first of its kind in the UK) is back! After three successful runs for the YTF I am now running it as a three-part running over three Saturdays in June.

The combination of yoga & mindfulness with Menstrual cycle awareness, aimed at tweens was just perfect. Elena shares her wisdom so generously. I loved every minute of the training.
Nisha Toppin, Attendee - Spring 2021

Truly inspirational. Elena delivered an abundance of information, imaginative practices, and creative ideas, built from her wealth of knowledge and experience, and showed how to share this important work in accessible and enjoyable ways. 
Invaluable for anyone working in or interested in this area.Course content was generous and extensive. The course materials, handouts and videos made it possible to absorb reflect and revisit with no time pressures. Elina shared a wealth of knowledge and experience in a very accessible way.

B L, Attendee - Spring 2021
What a wonderful course! Elena is so passionate and wise about her work and generous with her teaching, materials, and warmth. So much content and a great mix of sharing information and embodied practice. This is really valuable work in the world for our girls becoming women and this course was truly inspiring and accessible.
M Z, Attendee - Spring 2021

June 6, 11, 18 & 25

September 21, 28
October 5,12 , 18 (No classes on the 19 or 26)
November 9, 16, 23, 30
December 7 

12.30–2pm UK time

Plus pre-recorded video sessions and hand outs equivalent to another 5 hours teaching.

For more info please contact me at riuelena@gmail.com  or 07812208631

£175 (£135 early bird until May 15)

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Elena Riu
Yoga Alliance - BWY Diploma Accredited
Celebration Day For Girls Facilitator
Journey of Young Women Mentor
Menstrual Leadership Programme Facilitator
Well Woman Yoga Coach

Elena Riu is the Author of ‘My Dear Period-A Guidebook’, a comprehensive guide for girls age 8+ and their mothers / caregivers on all aspects of Puberty and Menarche.

The founder of Yoga, Buds, Yoga Blossoms & Yoga Flowers Coming of Age Circles for Girls, she also facilitates Mothers for Daughters Circles for the mothers of tween and teen girls.  She is a certified facilitator for Celebration Days for Girls, a comprehensive training in all things Periods specifically for girls aged 10-12 years and their mothers, devised by Jane Bennett.  She has a facilitator certification in Mentoring Girls Circles with JOYW.  She is a certified Children’s and Teens Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher and practices Mindfulness in the tradition of Titch Nath Hahn.  She holds a 200-hour Diploma with British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance and has also undertaken comprehensive training in Yoga for Women's Health with Uma Dinsmore Tuli and Emma Banalves of Shadow Yoga.

Elena completed a Red School Menstruality Leadership Training.  She recently completed a Foundation and Level I training in coherent breathing with Breath-Body-Mind. Elena also specializes in working with musicians experiencing PRA and PRMSDs.

Elena runs trainings for yoga teachers and therapists in teaching yoga, mindfulness & holding circles for tween girls and their mothers as well as Peri and Menopause. She is an Eco Feminist and an Ambassador for Eco Femme.

© 2025, Elena Riu