JIM GILLEN

After a dozen years in the high tech corporate world, Jim Gillen decided to follow his dream of supporting youth environmental education and physical fitness through work with the National Science Foundation, Saturday Academy and the National Sports Center for the Disabled. He was also a key play in several multi-million dollar campaigns to protect parks and natural areas in Oregon.

He pursued another dream as well – of teaching the yoga he had loved since his early years – and opened his own studio, Still Moving Yoga, in 1998. It was then that he and Lynea started teaching yoga at her elementary school behavior classroom and worked out and synthesized the activities that would become the Yoga calm curriculum. 

Jim is the award-winning co-author of Yoga Calm for Children, as well as a publisher and video producer through their media company, Three Pebble Press. He developed the Yoga Calm Certification programs, college courses (14) and online learning center.

A self-described “big picture person”, Jim thrives on seeing the connections among disparate fields and creatively solving problems with holistic, integrated solutions. A natural athlete and teacher, Jim enjoys his free time chasing his granddaughter on her bike and teaching her about birds and gardening.