Expansive inner skills for everyday life
After-school cohorts and online classes build a broad toolkit: focus, self-regulation, sensory awareness, confidence, and intuitive gifts, through play, movement, and structured practice with vetted guides.
MindSight is our academy term for a structured sensory pathway developed as an accessible alternate to paraoptic vision (blindfold / extra-ocular perception practice). It is one modality in the curriculum, not the whole program, and it is offered where the cohort design and family interest support it.
Our after-school work also recognizes social-emotional learning (SEL): self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Those capabilities are central to how kids learn, cope, and thrive alongside academic life.
Focus & self-regulation
Tools to filter overload, return to center, and stay present for learning, relationships, and daily transitions.
Sensory awareness
Playful practice across the senses that builds calm attention, spatial awareness, and embodied confidence.
Intuition & natural gifts
Games and reflection that help kids and adults notice, trust, and strengthen the gifts they already carry.
MindSight
Our academy term for a structured pathway developed as an accessible alternate to paraoptic (blindfold / extra-ocular perception) practice. Included in some offerings when the program design and family interest support it.
After-school & SEL
Local and remote groups practice inner skills week by week: attention, emotional regulation, play-based sensory work, and gifts exploration. That map overlaps with recognized SEL outcomes families and educators already value at school and at home.
MindSight and optional paraoptic practice may be woven in where the guide and program include them. They are choices within a wider after-school container, not a one-size-fits-all requirement.
Why this academy exists
We are working to normalize access to vetted teachers and courses that help people develop natural gifts with care. Practical skills come first. The longer vision is a world where more of us can experience these capacities, and where that shared growth helps raise earth's collective consciousness.
Families usually notice steadier focus, calmer transitions, and growing confidence first. The work complements school and home. It is not therapy.
Meet our teachers
Hear from teachers on our team, including interviews with Marieke Leliveld and Kaitlin MacCallum, on experience guiding children in this work.
Marieke Leliveld
A teacher of expanded perception and conscious development, working at the intersection of quantum energy awareness, intuitive intelligence, and child-centred learning.
Kaitlin MacCallum
Supports children and families at Luminous Mind Academy with a warmly grounded approach: focus, self-regulation, and sensory awareness through structured, embodied practice.
Community
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Now enrolling
Open a cohort to learn more, ask us anything, and apply when you are ready.
- ✓Online: apply and find a time that works for your family
- ✓In your area: share interest to help establish a local after-school program
- ✓Questions welcome before you apply. Reach out anytime
Choose your path
Whether you are here for your child, for yourself, or both, we will point you to the right next step.
Kids & teens · After-school cohorts
Small, trusted groups led by vetted guides. Join a remote cohort when the schedule fits, or share interest to help establish an after-school program near you. Questions welcome anytime.
Discover events & partners
Explore Luminous events and partner experiences in one place. RSVP on-site for Luminous offerings, and find trusted schools and studios nearby.
How to Join a Cohort
It's simple: apply for the path that fits your family. Questions first? Write us anytime before you apply. We're happy to help.
Remote
Apply and find a time that works
Choose a listed remote cohort, apply, and align with the session times that fit your family. No city deposit threshold, just a straightforward application for an online group.
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Share interest for your area
Want an after-school program near you? Share interest and we will help you explore next steps with vetted guides. You can also start with online offerings while a local path takes shape.
Share interestNot sure which path? Send us a note before you apply, or browse upcoming events.
Don't see your city listed? Apply anyway. We use that interest to stand up local cohorts.
Practical inner skills that shape how people learn, relate, and cope
Age-appropriate after-school cohorts, parent workshops, and adult classes that build focus, self-regulation, confidence, sensory awareness, and intuitive gifts through playful, structured practice. MindSight is our academy term for a structured pathway developed as an accessible alternate to paraoptic practice, and it is one modality within a wider toolkit that also supports social-emotional learning (SEL).
You've found bits and pieces (yoga here, a mindful camp there) but nothing that feels like a real path. Our after-school academies give your child a structured series of playful inner-skill practices: focus, self-regulation, sensory awareness, and gifts exploration, week by week, with vetted teachers. MindSight may be part of some cohorts. Paraoptic practice is a choice where offered, not the only story.
This is not therapy and not a clinical intervention. It complements school, home, and personal practice.
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Ready when you are
Join online offerings when a schedule fits, or share interest to help establish a program in your area. See how joining works →
Don't see your city yet? You can still start online or share interest for a local after-school path. Write us anytime with questions.
After you apply, we review fit and readiness so each small group stays well supported. Questions anytime, before you apply is welcome.
Events, partners, and programs in one place
Browse Luminous events and partner experiences, meet people near you, and enroll in academy programs when you are ready. On-site RSVP is for Luminous events; partners share discovery listings.
Training Pathways
Choose the pathway that fits: city after-school cohorts for kids and teens, Spark 1-on-1 (in person or remote), remote group sessions, retreats, or parent and adult programs. From live online classes to in-person after-school cohorts, you can start with the format that fits your family and grow from there. Remote 1-on-1 and remote group are separate offerings with different tuition and experience; Spark 1-on-1 lets you pick delivery when you apply. How to join →
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Global Expert Network
We connect your family with Light Weavers and qualified instructors from across the world, ensuring high-quality delivery of the Mindsight methodology.
Teach with a trusted method
You've built trust with families or communities. We bring a vetted method, curriculum, and tools to grow interest locally so you can teach inner skills (focus, self-regulation, sensory awareness) without reinventing every session.
Interview required · Method training available · Listing reflects your modality
Active Locations
These are cohorts we are running or actively forming, primarily in the United States and Canada. Click a city for deposit progress, teacher details, and how to join. If your city is not listed, you may still signal interest; see how deposits help us explore your area (launch not guaranteed; classes begin only after legal and operational requirements are met).
The Practical Benefits
Parents notice steadier focus, calmer transitions, and growing confidence. Participants report tools they can actually return to when life pulls them off center.
When school and screens pull your child in every direction, they need simple tools to come back to center. Our after-school cohorts teach practical focus and calming practices through games and movement, alongside broader sensory and gifts work.
Play-based practice and sensory games train children to filter noise, sustain concentration, and stay present, with skills that carry into school and daily life.
Focus & Attention
Play-based practice and sensory games train children to filter noise, sustain concentration, and stay present, with skills that carry into school and daily life.
Children feel more capable of navigating new or unknown situations as they learn to trust their internal orientation.
Increased Confidence
Children feel more capable of navigating new or unknown situations as they learn to trust their internal orientation.
Heart-brain and breathing techniques give children tools to manage stress, exams, and social pressure with greater steadiness.
Emotional Self-Regulation
Heart-brain and breathing techniques give children tools to manage stress, exams, and social pressure with greater steadiness.
Children develop a richer sense of their bodies and senses, supporting coordination, presence, and trust in inner signals.
Sensory & Embodied Awareness
Children develop a richer sense of their bodies and senses, supporting coordination, presence, and trust in inner signals.
Visualization and internal-screen practices support reading comprehension, mental math, and retaining what they learn.
Memory & Learning Readiness
Visualization and internal-screen practices support reading comprehension, mental math, and retaining what they learn.
Practical calming skills help children recover from overwhelm and approach challenges with more resilience.
Stress Management
Practical calming skills help children recover from overwhelm and approach challenges with more resilience.
Built for how kids learn today
If you care about how your child learns and copes today, you are aligned with what research and policy increasingly recognize: attention, emotional regulation, resilience, and body awareness are foundational, not extras. Our after-school cohorts sit at the intersection of early cognitive training, preventive youth mental health, and social-emotional learning (SEL), while also making room for sensory awareness, gifts practice, and MindSight where offered.
CASEL
Social-emotional learning
Self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making are core capabilities tied to school and life outcomes.
Learn more →U.S. Surgeon General
Youth mental health
Preventive, skill-building supports matter before children reach crisis; families and educators are seeking practical options.
Learn more →Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Executive function
Attention, working memory, inhibitory control, and self-regulation predict learning, behavior, and lifelong functioning.
Learn more →Cohort experience + parent tools
You get a human, trusted cohort experience with small groups and vetted teachers, plus simple digital supports so you stay oriented between sessions.
Intake & readiness
Your application and interview capture your goals, concerns, your child’s temperament, screen habits, and desired outcomes before placement.
Progress tracking
Your parent dashboard shows attendance, completed practices, teacher observations, and shifts in focus, regulation, confidence, or sensory awareness.
At-home practice
Short guided exercises, reflection prompts, and parent-child activities between sessions, where much of your family’s integration happens.
Outcomes over time
Session notes, progress signals, your feedback, and cohort completion metrics build evidence in your city as the model grows.
Our Scientific Approach
We build play-based inner-skills training on heart-brain coherence and structured sensory practice, treating attention like a muscle while children develop focus, self-regulation, and embodied awareness. Deeper perceptual practices are explored in session with expert guidance when a cohort is ready.
We practice techniques to synchronize heart rhythm and brain activity, associated with better health, emotional stability, and increased focus.
Biological Synergy
We practice techniques to synchronize heart rhythm and brain activity, associated with better health, emotional stability, and increased focus.
Engaging in activities that foster deep focus and presence. By entering a state of 'Flow,' children naturally bypass ordinary sensory limits.
Immersive Discovery
Engaging in activities that foster deep focus and presence. By entering a state of 'Flow,' children naturally bypass ordinary sensory limits.
Specialized exercises that train touch, spatial awareness, and internal visualization, helping children notice and trust sensory information with greater steadiness.
Sensory awareness practice
Specialized exercises that train touch, spatial awareness, and internal visualization, helping children notice and trust sensory information with greater steadiness.
Developing the capacity for intense visualization and focus, effectively 'decalcifying' traditional sensory filters to unlock innate potential.
The Internal Screen
Developing the capacity for intense visualization and focus, effectively 'decalcifying' traditional sensory filters to unlock innate potential.
Common questions
Quick answers about MindSight pathways, fees, interviews, and how city cohorts launch.
Luminous Mind Academy is a small-group inner-skills academy for kids, teens, parents, and adults. After-school cohorts, workshops, and online classes build focus, self-regulation, confidence, sensory awareness, and intuitive gifts with vetted guides, alongside recognized social-emotional learning (SEL) benefits. MindSight is our academy term for a structured pathway developed as an accessible alternate to paraoptic (blindfold) practice, and it is one modality in that toolkit. The site also hosts a public events hub and partner listings.
No. MindSight is our academy term for a structured pathway developed as an accessible alternate to paraoptic (blindfold / extra-ocular) practice. After-school and online programs teach a broader set of inner skills first: focus, regulation, play-based sensory practice, gifts exploration, and social-emotional learning (SEL). MindSight or paraoptic practice may be available as a choice in some cohorts when the program design and family interest support it. It is not required for every offering.
No. This is not therapy and not a clinical intervention. It complements school, home, and personal practice. We do not diagnose, treat, or replace clinical care. Families who need clinical support should continue working with qualified professionals.
You can join online offerings anytime a schedule fits. If you want an after-school program near you, share interest for your city and apply when you are ready. We walk families through next steps with a vetted guide pathway. Active cities may already have instructors assigned.
The non-refundable application fee starts your place in review. It is not tuition and does not guarantee acceptance. Tuition is shared after acceptance and varies by pathway (group, 1-on-1, or remote group).
Remote group is a small live cohort for shared inner-skills practice. Apply and find a time that works for your family. Spark 1-on-1 is one child with one teacher, with individual tuition, in person or online. They use separate application flows and pricing.
Yes for child group seats, 1-on-1 intensives, remote group cohorts, and retreats, so we can place balanced, well-supported groups. Public events on the hub may allow simple RSVP for Luminous sessions; partner events are discovery listings with external links. Questions before you apply are always welcome.
Yes. Share interest or apply, and we will help you explore online options now as well as a path toward a local after-school program. You can also write us first with questions.
Validated schools, studios, and businesses can join a partner directory for a small monthly fee, list people who teach with them, and submit events for discovery. Partner profiles stay separate from Luminous facilitators. On-site RSVP remains for Luminous events only.
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We are on a journey to make cognitive expansion and intuitive literacy accessible to children everywhere. Your support helps us provide equipment, train teachers, and sponsor tuition. We thank you for supporting this incredible mission.
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