Yali Szulanski
Parenting. Teaching. Human Raising.
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Bio
Yali Szulanski is an award-winning educational wellness consultant, teacher, and spiritual educator.
She works with individuals, families, schools, and community organizations to build a shared language of emotional wellness and collective resilience. Yali listens with care, helping clients recognize, name, and honor their emotions while gently guiding them through life’s challenges. Her approach integrates movement, creative expression, breath work, and trauma-informed, body-mind-spirit practices.
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Yali has taught in classrooms across the United States, as well as in Israel, Haiti, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. She creates inclusive, dynamic spaces for individuals navigating both the subtle and significant transitions of life. Yali holds a Master’s in Psychology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is completing her rabbinic ordination through Yeshivat Maharat.
She is the founder of The "I Am" Project, an initiative through which students and educators integrate contemplative and spiritual practices into daily life in practical, accessible ways. As a trauma survivor and someone in long-term recovery from an eating disorder, Yali draws from her own healing journey to meet others with honesty, compassion, and deep understanding.
Yali offers support to individuals of all ages, leads classroom and group sessions, consults with parents and educators, and helps people nurture their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being in safe, empowering ways.
Yali worked with our sixth grade classes for three years. Her "I Am" Project workshops taught students and teachers to incorporate social-emotional wellness into the classroom environment. In a tracked study, students performed better on assessments and reported higher rates of positive feedback regarding their levels of anxiety, and mental wellbeing as compared to previous years, and throughout the year. Parents reported their children being more capable of expressing their frustration and anger at home in healthy ways, and exhibiting calm and informed approaches to problem solving.
Bala Cynwyd Middle School
