Meet Your Camp Directors!
Mindful Moments Virtual Summer Camp was the brain child of Chelsea Brown and Julie Matos, longtime friends and educators who are excited to bring their unique skill sets into a creative camp where children are encouraged to learn and explore. Julie and Chelsea met over a decade ago as Special Educators at Gower School District 62 in suburban Illinois. Both creative, innovative, joyful libras the two got along like peas in a pod from the start. Julie worked for many years as the director of Camp Quest in La Grange, Illinois, and invited Chelsea to join in as a counselor where the two spent many fond summers working together. Julie and Chelsea share a love of nature, imagination, and learning through hands on experience. They are looking forward to inspiring wonder and curiosity in their campers this summer at Mindful Moments.
Want to learn more about the camp or the directors? Have questions, comments, or thoughts to share? Please feel very welcome to reach out! We want you to feel very comfortable and supported. Contact chelsea@chelseabrownyoga with any concerns or to set up a meeting to get to know us.
Miss Chelsea (and friends!) Photographed by Melanie Trevethan
Chelsea Brown is a yoga teacher with over a decade of experience. She loves sharing yoga with children as a way to help them move their bodies, develop emotional intelligence, and learn the value of stillness and rest. Her children’s yoga classes include lessons about the world around us inspired by travel, nature, stories, and mythology. Chelsea is the founder of Good Seeds Yoga, a company dedicated to bringing excellent yoga education to schools and community groups, and training adults to share yoga with the children in their lives. Chelsea has spent her quarantine teaching daily yoga classes over Zoom, taking long runs, and catching up on the pile of novels on her nightstand!
Connect with Miss Chelsea! Email: chelsea@chelseabrownyoga.com Instagram: @chelseabrownyoga
Miss Julie
Julie Matos is an award winning artist and educator with over 20 years of experience. Julie creates handcrafted, sustainable art jewelry that speaks to her love of nature. During the summers, Julie and her partner travel the Midwest to share their breataking pieces at fine art fests throughout the region. In addition to her incredible skill as a jeweler and metal smith, Julie is proud to have dabbled in just about every conceivable form of arts and crafts. Painting, macrame, flower pressing, basket weaving- Julie makes it all look easy! See her work at EclecticRedesigns.com. During quarantine, she’s spent her time assisting her students in e-learning, teaching Craft-o-Rama art classes over Zoom, and bird watching (ask her how many birds she’s spotted this year!)
Connect with Miss Julie! Email: eclecticredesignsjewelry@gmail.com Instagram: @eclectic_redesigns