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SCHOOL YEAR IMPACT
Total Activities Completed
42
2025-2026
FACILITATOR TIP OF THE DAY
Alternating student leaders each week boosts classroom agency, focus & confidence!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Alternating student leaders each week boosts classroom agency, focus & confidence!
Alternating student leaders each week boosts classroom agency, focus & confidence!
BRAIN FACT
Brief movement can help students shift attention.
About us
Our History
A journey from one classroom to a global movement for student and teacher wellness.
Building a Foundation
Over the next three years, Dave began bringing mind-body and brain exercises into his classroom with great success. Administrators at P.S. 375 and Bayview Elementary soon asked him to help develop school-wide mindfulness and social-emotional learning programs.
A Challenge
In 2009, a lawsuit involving Ilchi Lee received media attention and was connected publicly to Power Brain Education. BPW states that the claims were later dismissed or dropped and that the NY Post retracted an article linking the NYC program to the lawsuit. The negative publicity led the NYC Department of Education to suspend PBE from working in city schools.
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TODAY
The Beginning
In September 2002, Dave Beal began teaching 5th grade at P.S. 375 in Brooklyn as a NYC Teaching Fellow. The stress of teaching in a high-needs environment led him to begin practicing yoga, tai chi, and mindfulness, which improved his health and helped him connect more effectively with his students.
Reaching More Schools
After several years of developing school-wide wellness programs, Dave left the classroom to bring these practices to more communities. He joined Power Brain Education and, over the next two years, shared mindfulness and wellness techniques with approximately 50 schools across New York City.
A New Chapter
Dave resigned from PBE in 2010 and began a private teaching and consulting practice. After briefly returning to PBE in 2015, he and his team founded Brain Power Wellness in 2016. Today, BPW says its programs have reached more than 600 schools, 30,000 teachers, and 750,000 students around the world.
In September 2002, Dave Beal began teaching 5th grade at P.S. 375 in Brooklyn as a NYC Teaching Fellow. While he was drawn to teaching in the wake of 9/11 as a way of empowering future leaders to create a more equitable, peaceful, and sustainable world, it became clear that Dave needed help managing the stress of teaching in this high-needs environment.
To manage his own stress and energy levels, Dave began practicing yoga, tai chi, and mindfulness, and experienced great changes in his health and ability to connect with his students. He began incorporating regular mind-body and brain exercises into his classroom with great success, and was asked by administrators at P.S. 375 and Bayview Elementary (in Freeport, Long Island) to develop school-wide mindfulness/SEL programs.
After for three years of helping his principals in Brooklyn and Freeport design school-wide wellness programs, Dave made the difficult decision to leave the classroom in order to share mindfulness and wellness with more school communities. He accepted a position with a wellness company named Power Brain Education (PBE), which was owned by one of Ilchi Lee’s companies. Over the next two years with PBE, Dave shared mindfulness and wellness techniques with approximately fifty schools throughout NYC.
In 2009, Ilchi Lee was the subject of a lawsuit filed in Arizona by former Body & Brain employees who alleged undue influence and unfair business practices. All claims in the lawsuit were either dismissed by the Court or dropped by the plaintiffs in 2013. However, several media outlets picked up the story. The NY Post ran a misleading article (which they immediately retracted) inaccurately connecting PBE’s work in NYC to the lawsuits. Because of this negative publicity, the DOE understandably suspended PBE from working in NYC schools.
In 2010, Dave resigned from PBE and began running a private teaching and consulting practice for students and families. However, he never gave up on his dream of sharing wellness with schools and being part of a principled movement for systemic change within our educational system. After briefly returning to PBE in 2015, Dave realized it was time to start a new school-based wellness company. In 2016, he and his team created Brain Power Wellness, a mindfulness company that has worked with more than 600 schools, 30,000 teachers, and 750,000 students around the world.
2002 - today