About Me

Hi, I’m Gemma, founder of Calmways Yoga & Wellbeing.

I’m an experienced primary school teacher, yoga teacher, Mindful Emotion Coach and mental health trainer. Much of my work focuses on supporting children, parents, carers and schools to strengthen mental health and emotional wellbeing.

I work with the Charlie Waller Trust and other organisations, supporting schools to develop their whole-school approaches to mental health and wellbeing, as well as delivering training around children’s emotional wellbeing, trauma-informed practice, emotional regulation and understanding the nervous system.

I also work directly with children and families and, through the Charlie Waller Trust, facilitate New Maudsley Carer Skills programmes for parents and carers supporting a young person with an eating disorder.

Alongside this work, I am training in psychotherapeutic counselling and hypnotherapy, continuing to deepen my understanding of emotional wellbeing, relationships and the connection between mind and body.

I created Calmways to bring this knowledge together in a practical and accessible way. My aim is to help parents, carers, educators and professionals better understand what may be happening beneath behaviour and big emotions, while providing realistic, compassionate tools that can be used in everyday life.

Gemma Howard

Calmways Yoga and Wellbeing