Certified Yoga Teacher

After spending two decades in service as a public high school teacher in a Title One school, Jillian Dillard got curious about what the classroom (and the community, and the world) might be like if the students learned self-regulation skills and practiced breathing and mindful movement. A lifelong yoga practitioner, she got certified by Kidding Around Yoga in July 2018, started the nonprofit FreedOM Youth Yoga in December 2018, then completed a 200 hour yoga teacher certification in Spain with the Marianne Wells Yoga School in February 2020. She has taught hundreds of hours of kids' yoga and thousands of kids and teens. Her time is mostly spent as the executive director of FYY now, with a team of 10 contracted teachers who travel all around metro Atlanta in an effort to provide more equitable access to yoga, especially in critical risk areas identified in the United Way of Greater Atlanta's Child Well-Being Index.