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A Teacher’s Guide to Brain Breaks and Regulating Routines

A classroom framework that teaches students aged 5-12 how to manage their energy, emotions, and readiness to learn — in just 15 minutes a day.


This guide will help you:

  • Implement a trauma-informed classroom framework that supports students’ sensory and emotional regulation

  • Support student behaviour without rewards and punishments, by teaching children how to recognise and manage their own energy, emotions, and body cues

  • Embed simple, effective regulating routines into your daily classroom practices

You will learn:

  • How to respond and meet the needs of students (without stickers and detentions)

  • How to help children come back into balance using brain, body and heart fillers so they are ready to learn

  • Use trauma-informed, nervous-system-based tools that work with kids

  • Co-regulate through brain, body, and heart-based routines

  • Create a classroom culture that’s grounded in safety, connection, and emotional intelligence


This guide will help you:

  • Implement a trauma-informed classroom framework that supports students’ sensory and emotional regulation

  • Support student behaviour without rewards and punishments, by teaching children how to recognise and manage their own energy, emotions, and body clues

  • Embed simple, effective regulating routines into your daily classroom practices

You will learn how to:

  • Respond to and meet the needs of students emotional needs (without stickers and detentions)

  • Help children come back into balance using brain, body and heart fillers, so they feel ready to learn

  • Use trauma-informed, nervous-system-based tools to support behaviour and emotions

  • Co-regulate through brain, body, and heart-based routines

  • Create a classroom culture that’s grounded in safety, connection, and emotional intelligence

Download it now and start using it today ↓

What people are saying

'With Em's guidance and support, I have felt so much more confident and secure in my teaching abilities and my ability to support students with big behaviours'

"Supporting students with big emotions and behaviours can be challenging especially when it means going against traditional methods of behaviour management.

Em has shown me the importance of meeting students where they are at and building them up to feel connected supported and confident in the classroom.

Her approach has helped me create a positive and nurturing learning environment, centred around emotional intelligence.

I am incredibly grateful for Emma's wisdom and encouragement which have been invaluable to my growth as a teacher."

Tanya, Experienced Teacher

"YOU have the biggest influence in your classroom.

Your energy, reactions, and body language shape everything that happens.

This course made me realise how much we, as teachers, need to do the inner work to show up authentically. When you commit to doing this work on yourself, it shifts not only your teaching but your entire life. It’s hard to describe how powerful this transformation is until you experience it.

Honestly, this should be a requirement for all teachers—not just for their own well-being but for their students too. It’s not an overnight fix, but the growth and impact are 100% worth it."

Megan, Second Year Teacher

hey teachers

Teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers in the world

I know you’re here because you care. You want to support your students with more than just academics.

You want them to feel safe, to stay connected, and to actually enjoy being in the classroom, but you’re also tired.

Maybe you’re noticing dysregulated behaviours popping up when you least expect them. Kids melting down over small things, withdrawing when they’re overwhelmed, or struggling to stay engaged.

Maybe your go-to strategies aren’t quite cutting it anymore and while you want to bring in more regulation and connection-based routines, you’re short on time and stretched thin already. I truly get it. I’ve been there.

I remember standing in my own classroom, wondering how I was meant to teach fractions when one child was under the desk crying and another was spinning around the room.

This must have guide isn't just a set of brain breaks.

This is a framework, a way to help your students understand their energy and emotions, and a way for you to respond with what they actually need, not a sticker or detention (because let’s be real, those things don’t reallllllly work that well)

You’ll learn how to help children use brain, heart, and body fillers to bring calm and connection back into their day so they are ready to learn.

Hey, I'm Em.


Emotional Intelligence Coach for educators & leaders

  • I’m Em — a former teacher and Assistant Principal turned Emotional Intelligence and Nervous System Coach.

    I'm a:

    • Certified Six Seconds EQ Assessor

    • Dare to Lead™ trained

    • Berry Street Education Model™ trained

    • Circle of Security Parenting facilitator

    • Qualified Nervous System Practitioner

    I spent 12 years in classrooms and now, I work with educators and school leaders to create emotionally safe, connected, and compassionate spaces for learning.

    My mission?

    To help build a new generation of emotionally intelligent educators and leaders who are ready to change schools from the inside out.

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