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Why K!d Power

Journey to K!d Power Land

K!d Power programs attend to the whole child, nurturing physical, mental, and emotional growth. Each session begins with a journey to K!d Power Land with “Stretching Shea” and her Power Pals, an activity designed to get kids moving from their seats and spark their creativity.

While in K!d Power Land, the kids will engage with the Power Pals as they learn about the basic components of fitness and mimic their activities through a Power Pal-led warm-up, aerobic exercises and a cool-down. Every session concludes with a “wrap-up” upon leaving K!d Power Land, where the kids are met with lessons in cultivating positive relationships with themselves and others, lessons in nutrition, reflective rhymes for meditation, or a combination of the techniques!

K!d Power can be brought to schools in both physical and virtual formats. Parents, caregivers and educators can access the K!d Power health and fitness modules containing the resources for adapting Power programs at home and school.

Meet Michele, MA, LMFT, CEDS, Fit Diploma-UK

Michele Lynne Tamarkin is a leader in the field of mind-body wellness and eating disorders. As Director of Community Outreach and Program Coordinator at the Eating Disorder Center of California, Michele implemented innovative eating disorder programs as well as provided counseling services and expressive therapies for individuals, groups and families.

Her work with the Eating Disorder Center of California ultimately inspired her to open her own practice — Healthy Insideout — providing treatment and motivating change for clients battling anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder and exercise addiction. She later co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) where she served as President for five years.

Michele spearheaded IAEDP networking and fundraising events devoted to enhancing the professional pathways of our eating disorder and mental health communities. She has launched several experiential body awareness programs and has organized numerous presentations geared towards the awareness and prevention of eating disorders. Additionally, Michele has served as adjunct faculty for the University of California, Los Angeles and College of the Canyons as a guest lecturer on the topics of body image, eating disorders and personal growth.

Michele has always been motivated by her mission to promote mind-body wellness among younger generations. Her creativity and drive helped her launch K!d Power in various public & private elementary schools, YMCA programs and country clubs across the Los Angeles area. Now based out of Atlanta, Georgia Michele is looking forward to sharing K!d Power’s impact and broad reach with programs in the Southeast.

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Team Members

Madison Edwards

Madison Edwards is a film and television major at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She grew up on the K!d Power Program and is so excited to help bring it into the new decade, taking creative control of the characters she knew and loved all throughout her childhood. Creative endeavors have always been her main focus: throughout high school, she performed in thirteen different stage productions, even winning All-State Cast at the Georgia High School Association Division Three One-Act Competition two years in a row for her acting prowess. She was also on the editing committee for her high school’s literary magazine, and spends as much of her free time as possible writing flash fiction and poetry. Since graduating, she has begun dabbling in digital animation, fashion design/construction, and music theory/songwriting. Her ultimate passion is storytelling, and any medium through which she can accomplish telling an impactful story becomes a pathway she is eager to explore. In working on K!d Power, she has the golden opportunity to flex both her academic and artistic muscles, and she looks forward to imparting the K!d Power message and having a hand in building the loving community she knows it’s meant to be.

Angelique Perrin

Angelique Perrin is a 4x Gracie-Award-winning producer, radio host, and voice-over talent. Long before she was the voice of Jedi Master Adi Gallia in Star Wars: The Clone Wars or the nurturing bluebird on Disney Junior’s Guess How Much I Love You, she was creating content for national audiences. For the past two decades, she’s been creating, writing, and producing content for outlets that include Black Entertainment Television, Westwood One, and SiriusXM.

Since 2010, Angelique has had the ear of progressive women of color. As the co-host and producer of the syndicated show Cafe Mocha, she is heard weekly in 40+plus markets and on SiriusXM. Show topics range from asking “Is Your Child A Bully?” to a conversation with First Lady Michelle Obama about her Let’s Move campaign and the importance of vegetable gardening. Her voice and the show have become a place where Black and Latino women come to get inspired, entertained, and educated.

She’s also been educating preschool and K-3 students through her work with ABC Mouse. As Professor Esther Hester, the science teacher, Angelique has conducted science experiments, explained fancy science terms, and is raising a generation of kids to love science.

In her spare time, Angelique and her mother have a healthy soul food cooking blog. Like many African Americans, they were diagnosed with high blood pressure at relatively young ages. The two were determined to help others suffering from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, so they created New Age Soul Food, a website filled with healthy alternatives to traditional soul food recipes. Their work went beyond writing. The two paired up with local nonprofits in Los Angeles to bring their healthy cooking classes to the Black community. Imagine a mother/daughter team with a kitchen filled with other mother/daughter and grandmother/granddaughter teams sharing their struggles with health, food, and weight. The women ranged from 5 to 75 and they whipped up the New Age Soul Food recipes with a side of sage advice, compassion, and love of community.

Curriculum Consultants

Jill Fink

Jill Fink is an inspiring teacher that has dedicated 25 years of service as an elementary teacher to the wonderful Woodlake Elementary Community Charter and the Los Angeles Unified School District. This year (2020-2021), Jill was awarded “Teacher of the Year” from the LA Unified - PTSA for her dedication to teaching the whole child, creating inspiring assemblies and bringing them to the community.

Jill Fink, is an “out-of-the-box” elementary education professional, who has gone above and beyond, to excite, develop, and implement several innovative educational programs. She recently wrote, and was awarded, a public educational health and wellness inspired grant that would pilot innovative emotional and physical promotional programs throughout LAUSD. She is the “Fitness and Wellness Coordinator” at Woodlake Elementary School, and for the past 25 years, has collaborated with Michele Tamarkin on numerous teacher-training emotional and physical fitness presentations, kid-friendly interactive assemblies, and school other learning events.

In 2018, Jill and Michele worked to create the first annual LA Unified “Kindness Week” program. Together they brought to life a kindness and self-esteem building itinerary, and an extensive fun - experiential week long activity plan.

Jill continues to invite “Stretching Shea” and the Power Pals into her classroom. Each year she shares the K!d Power, Fitness, Fantasy and Fun book, as well as, provides developmental lessons from the “KP Training Manual”, on fitness and self-esteem to both her first grade classroom, and her academic colleagues.

She is known as the fun, high energy, health promoter, as she comes from a background of teaching exercise all around the world on Princess Cruises and formerly certified with the Athletics and Fitness Association of America, Jill has seen first hand how the characters and creativity of Michele Tamarkin’s vision has empowered her students. She’s watched year after year as her first graders learned to identify with purposeful, fun and empowering parts of themselves.

Claudia Crowe, M.A., OTR/L

Claudia Crowe is a licensed occupational therapist who specializes in pediatrics. She is the owner of Occupational Yoga Therapy, a private yoga therapy company which tailors individual yoga programs to fit the unique needs of children and families.

She received her 200 hour yoga training and certification in Los Angeles in 2000 before moving to Seattle to study occupational therapy. The focus of her graduate research work was the integration of yoga into rehabilitative therapy to support the physical and psychosocial goals of children. Her thesis consisted of the transformation of this research into an evidence-based instructional manual on the use of yoga for occupational therapy. Today she uses this manual to lead instructional workshops and in-services for teachers, parents and therapists.

As an occupational therapist, Claudia has worked in the schools and in private clinics with children having a wide range of diagnoses including genetic and developmental disorders, emotional and behavioral diagnoses and attention deficits. In the schools she has developed and led yoga groups focused on increasing participation and play skills for students with autism diagnoses.

Claudia considers humor, generosity and fun to be inseparable from yoga therapy and has built OYT on this philosophy.