The founder
Hi, I’m Marketa.
The heart behind Kids For Yoga.
Every child has a Northern Star inside.
I’ve spent thirty years learning how people heal, grow and find their strength. Then I built a framework so children could learn it early, and keep it for life.
How it began
One
The first lesson
I grew up as an unsure child who carried difficult feelings on my own. My grandmother gently taught me something that would stay with me for the rest of my life: pain becomes lighter when we don’t carry it alone.
I didn’t realise it then, but she was giving me my first lesson in emotional wellbeing. Years later, that lesson became one of the foundations of the COMPAS Framework.
Two
The night that became my philosophy
When I was nine, I was at a children’s camp in the countryside. One night, in the middle of a big night adventure, I was cold, wet and exhausted. Freezing, tired and miserable.
Then I had a thought that changed my life. Tomorrow, everyone would be talking about this adventure, wishing they were still in it. Yet here I was, still living the adventure, and wishing it would end.
In that moment I made a promise to myself: whenever life feels hard, I’ll remember that these moments often become the stories we’re proudest of.
Three
The journey
I was 15 when I first stood in front of a group of children at a holiday camp in the Czech Republic, and I knew. Inspiring children to be their best selves wasn’t a job. It was my calling.
That calling led me to kinesiology thirty years ago, and then across the world: in 2002 I followed my heart to Australia and turned my passion into my profession. I studied everything I could about how humans heal, grow and find their strength: holistic kinesiology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, counselling techniques, NLP and more.
Then in 2015 came my most transformative chapter: I became a mother to two beautiful daughters. Watching them navigate their own big feelings, I saw with new eyes what every child needs: not to be told to calm down, but to be shown how. Everything I had learned came together into one framework, built for children. I called it COMPAS.
We don’t always get to choose the storm. But we can choose how we walk through it.
Because children don’t need scripts. They need to be seen.
I meet children exactly where they are: emotionally, developmentally, energetically. My sessions are playful, safe and deeply attuned. Kids feel seen. Parents feel supported. And the changes last far beyond the mat.
What I create is hard to replicate, because it’s not just what I teach. It’s how children feel when they’re with me.
“What stands out most is how deeply she lives what she teaches. She doesn’t just talk about mindfulness, connection, and purpose; she embodies them every day.”
Martina UhrovaGoogle review
Evidence-informed, not improvised
Training behind the magic
Diploma in Holistic Kinesiology & Health Sciences
Including Traditional Chinese Medicine, counselling techniques and nutrition
Advanced Children’s Yoga Teacher
Certified Yoga Therapy for Kids Teacher
NLP Practitioner
Ericksonian Hypnosis · Results Coach
Reiki I & II
Neural Organisation Technique (N.O.T.)
First Aid Certified
Current certification
Working With Children Check
Available on request for school and centre procurement
Vision and mission
The world I’m building toward
Imagine a world where every child grows up equipped with the confidence to embrace life’s challenges. Where resilience, inner calm and self-awareness are as fundamental as reading and maths, and emotional intelligence is taught as naturally as the ABCs.
With over 25 years in holistic health, coaching and natural therapies, I draw on knowledge and lived wisdom to support families navigating the overwhelm of modern life. Because let’s face it: life can be a lot. But when children and parents have the tools to self-regulate, reconnect and rise again, truly magical things happen.
The greatest gift we can give our children isn’t protection from life’s struggles. It’s the skills to navigate them with courage and kindness. This is the heart of everything I do.
Every child who learns to find their Northern Star carries it into a classroom, a friendship, a family. My mission is for the COMPAS Framework to reach children far beyond the classes I can teach myself, because when we empower children, we build the foundation for stronger generations.
And that is where real change begins.
I don’t teach from a script. Some of this I learned the hard way, in my own life. Some of it came from thirty years of studying how people heal and grow. All of it I’ve watched work, in rooms full of real children.
By blending lived experience with the ancient wisdom of yoga and modern, science-supported techniques, I’ve built a system that helps children navigate life with clarity, courage and heart.
Marketa, founder of Kids For Yoga