It's time to come back together.
People need real, human, kind interactions every day. Gratitude and community connection are shown to lengthen life, protect the heart, fight dementia and reduce anxiety and depression. So we built somewhere to do that on a Tuesday.
A clubhouse, not a facility.
The Essex Kindness Club is the headquarters for all things community wellness and fun at Yoga Mouth Collective Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that breaks barriers to accessing mindful wellbeing.
Upstairs at 431 Eastern Boulevard you will find Mat Lab Martial Arts, Sangha House Studio, a lounge, several murals and usually somebody's kids. It is a strange, wonderful place in Essex that belongs to the people who use it.
Look around the space
What we believe
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Kindness is courageous
Being kind in public, to strangers, when it is inconvenient, is a harder skill than being nice. We treat it as a practice, not a personality trait.
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Notice before you react
The space between a feeling and a reaction is where everything useful happens. Kids and adults both practise finding it here.
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Everyone belongs
Different brains, different bodies, different communication, same right to be in the room. Inclusion is in the first draft of every programme, not bolted on.
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Wellness is a right
Not a privilege, not a luxury good, and not something you should have to be well-off to practise. Hence the sliding scale.
Who runs it
Kristi and Fell Jenkins founded Yoga Mouth in 2018 and opened this floor in March 2025. They have a blended family of five kids with a range of mental and physical health needs, and they built the thing they could not find anywhere else.
The Club is staffed by coaches and instructors who train in trauma-informed, adaptive practice, and who practise the same regulation skills alongside the children they teach.
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