Mindful movement for every body.
EmpowerMe provides adaptive yoga and mindful movement experiences for children, teens, and adults of diverse abilities and needs.
Through community partnerships, private support, and public classes, we create inclusive opportunities to build confidence, regulation, connection, and lifelong tools for well-being.
Meet Our Founder: Briana Morford
Licensed Special Educator • RYT • RCYT • YACEP
I’m Briana, founder and owner of EmpowerMe. From a young age, I knew I wanted to be an educator and share my love of learning and exploration with others. For more than a decade, I’ve had the privilege of supporting children, teens, and adults with diverse abilities and needs, shaping my passion for creating opportunities where individuals feel seen, supported, and empowered.
Throughout my career, I developed a deep personal appreciation for movement, mindfulness, and yoga. These practices helped me navigate challenging years as an educator, providing balance and resilience when I needed it most. My work also showed me the need for more opportunities that support individuals as a whole, physically, socially, emotionally, and mentally.
This inspired me to bring my worlds of education and mindful movement together through EmpowerMe. I continued expanding my training in yoga, children’s yoga, adaptive practices, sensory processing, and regulation. Today, that original vision has grown into a community of programs, partnerships, and instructors bringing meaningful movement experiences to individuals of diverse abilities and needs, while also expanding into education and training that helps others create more accessible and inclusive movement experiences.
-C.H.
“Briana will open a way for him to go in and join a group, making him feel more comfortable and accepted by his friends and peers.”
-M.S.
“Briana is patient, kind, caring and honest, and makes our family feel deeply understood and valued.”
How We Support Our Community
We partner with schools and enrichment programs, ABA clinics and therapy programs, adult day programs, community organizations and recreational spaces, and other groups to bring inclusive movement experiences directly to the communities they serve.
Community Partnerships
Personalized support for individuals and families through movement, regulation, and connection. Sessions can focus on individual needs or support the family as a whole, creating practical tools and shared experiences that can carry into everyday life.
Private & Family Support
Training & Professional Development
We provide workshops, professional development, and continuing education designed to help educators, instructors, caregivers, therapists and community professionals create more accessible, inclusive, and meaningful movement experiences.
Community Classes
& Events
Join EmpowerMe through public classes, family experiences, workshops, and community events designed for a variety of ages and abilities. Offered through spaces across the valley in Arizona.
Your Questions Answered
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EmpowerMe combines experience in special education with training in adaptive yoga, mindful movement, sensory processing, and regulation. Our approach goes beyond physical movement to support confidence, body awareness, regulation, communication, and connection, while giving each individual choice and autonomy in how they participate.
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EmpowerMe supports children, teens, and adults of diverse abilities and needs, as well as the families, educators, caregivers, and professionals who support them. We work with individuals and families directly and partner with schools, enrichment programs, ABA clinics, adult day programs, community organizations, recreational facilities and other inclusive spaces.
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There is no single way someone has to move, communicate, or participate at EmpowerMe. Activities can be adapted for different bodies, mobility levels, communication styles, sensory needs, and learning preferences, with an emphasis on choice, flexibility, and meeting each individual where they are.
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EmpowerMe is based in Gilbert, Arizona and brings programming to spaces and programs across the Valley. Select trainings, professional development, and educational opportunities may also be available virtually and beyond Arizona.
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Yes. EmpowerMe provides workshops, professional development, and continuing education for educators, yoga and movement instructors, caregivers, therapists, care providers and other professionals. As a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, we are committed to helping others build the knowledge and practical tools to create more accessible, inclusive, and meaningful movement experiences.