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    Education and the Economy

    We live in a world shaped by invisible ideologies. Our ideas of a good life, a good education, and meaningful work are built on economic and political systems that reproduce themselves — often without us noticing.

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    Dance 4 Change – A project of Climate Youth Resilience

    A project of Climate Youth Resilience: Unlocking young people's greatest capacities and building worlds of belonging from a place of power.

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    CYR Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change

    The Ambassadorship aims to support at least 10 ambassadors from each region as leaders and advocates for embedding deep systems change in all advocacy.

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    Planetary Peace

    We are collaborating with The 50 Percent to develop a webinar series and Fellowship addressing depolarisation, disinformation, and conflict transformation.

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    Global Workshops

    Join our global workshops! We cover topics in response to our community, so do tell us what you’d like!

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    CYR Global Youth Summit

    Journey from inspiration to transformation with us at our first ever CYR Global Summit, where we aim to bring young voices together around the themes of climate crisis, mental health, inner-led leadership, and peacebuilding.

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    366 Gifts of Practice

    Enjoy the 31 Days of Peace playlist.

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    31 Days of Peace

    Enjoy the 31 Days of Peace playlist.

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    CYR on Bridging Inner Landscapes

    Join us in hearing what Bridging and becoming Bridgers means to us in different contexts. We hope to all become Bridgers and would like to hear whether you do too!

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    Music and mindfulness

    In this video, DJ and Mindfulness Initiative Board Member, Kareen Griffiths, chats with Cathy-Mae about her pathway into this expansive field. 

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    Vibe Checks

    Christmas Jingle Jams

    We will dive into a festive playlist filled with all your favourite Christmas classics and modern hits, thoughtfully blended to keep your holiday season calm and bright.

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    Vibe Checks

    Halloween Haunted Harmonies

    This Halloween, step into the eerie ambiance of "Chill & Thrill," a special Vibe Check where spooky meets soothing.

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    Vibe Checks

    Chill Waves & Resilient Minds

    Join us for Chill Waves & Resilient Minds, a rejuvenating CYR Vibe Check designed to help us unwind and recharge.

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    Vibe Checks

    Spring Vibes

    Welcome the rejuvenating energy of spring with our next CYR Vibe Check: "Southern Hemisphere Spring Vibes"! 🌼🎧

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    Timeless Tunes

    Join us for our next CYR Vibe Check: "Timeless Tunes: Rocking on for Social Justice"! 🎸✊🏽 This playlist session is all about the power of rock music to inspire and mobilise for change.

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    Pride Month

    Join us for a dazzling Pride Month Disco at our next CYR Vibe Check! Let's celebrate love, diversity, and freedom with a session of unforgettable disco beats.

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    Africa Day Celebration

    Join us for the next CYR Vibe Check as we celebrate Africa Day in style, albeit a little late! Let's jive and vibe to the best of African tunes, immersing ourselves in the vibrant rhythms that celebrate our rich and diverse cultures.

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    CYR Vibe Check – Vol.1

    This month's end, on 30 April, we will be hosting a special one-hour Zoom gathering, not for discussions or debates, but to immerse ourselves in music and mindfulness – a space for reflection and creativity.

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Education and the Economy

Reimagining Education.
Reimagining the Economy.

The Education and Economy workstream exists to make economic and political systems visible, and to open space for young people to imagine something different.

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About This Workstream

Education is one thread in a much larger web — one that shapes our values, our sense of self, and the ways we relate to each other and to the planet. From our earliest years, our social and emotional lives are formed by the people and institutions around us, and education is one of the most powerful of these forces.

Education and the Economy is a space for asking hard questions about that formation: How does our education mirror the goals of dominant economic and political systems? Where do we unconsciously reproduce those goals in our leadership, our relationships, and the ways we approach change? And what would it look like to build something rooted in wellbeing, embodiment, and collective flourishing instead?

Alongside tools for critical reflection, we offer practices for embodiment and heart-based relationality — because real transformation takes more than new ideas. It takes pausing, sensing, and practicing new ways of being together.

Our Objectives

  • Offer tools for reflecting on our education and the economic institutions that shape its values, goals, and direction
  • Offer practices for reflection and embodiment that are foundational to heart-based, wisdom-based leadership
  • Build pathways to youth partners and young people already reframing the goals of education and economics

Featured Program

The Young Person’s Guide to Re-Imagining the Economy

A three-part webinar series hosted in partnership with the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) and Climate Youth Resilience (CYR), created for young leaders and changemakers ready to question the systems they were educated into — and imagine, together, what comes next.

This series builds on a January 2026 event held for the Learning Planet Festival, ReIMAGINING the Purpose of Education, where nearly 60 participants explored DEAL’s Embedded Economy and Preparing to Teach tools through CYR’s facilitation and reflective practice. Participants told us they wanted more time and a more accessible way to get to the heart of reimagining education — so we’re back with an expanded journey across three sessions: Mind, Body & Heart, and Revolution.

Session 1
Awakening the Imprinted Patterns of Our Education

Mind: Sept 10 · 12nn Lisbon / 7pm Manila

We map our education journey using two of DEAL’s foundational tools — the Embedded Economy, and a second mapping activity — to trace the activities, purposes, and systems our education belongs to, including the ideas of success we’ve internalized along the way. We close by asking: what does success really look like in our society, and what paradigms of doing and being are we unconsciously trained into?

Session 2
Embodying Our Patterns, Leading with Our Hearts

Body & Heart: Sept 17 · 12nn Lisbon / 7pm Manila

We move from the head into the body — noticing how joy, grief, and oppression show up in different spaces of schooling — and then into the heart, asking what makes us come alive and how that connects to the education we received. Together we explore what flourishing actually requires, and what role embodiment and liberation could play in the education we build next.

Session 3
Revolutionary Approaches to Economics and Education

Revolution: Sept 24 · 12nn Lisbon / 7pm Manila

Having mapped the patterns and felt them in our bodies and hearts, we turn to what’s already being built differently. DEAL shares its own work in education, and we hear from changemakers reimagining economic life. We close by opening the floor: what could revolutionary education and economics look like in your own community?

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What to Expect

  • Three live sessions, each blending plenary discussion with small breakout reflection
  • Guided practices in grounding, embodiment, and heart-centered reflection
  • Real tools from Doughnut Economics Action Lab, adapted for young changemakers
  • A community of peers and facilitators exploring these questions alongside you
  • A closing invitation to bring what you’ve learned back into your own community

What to bring: a big piece of paper and some colored pens — you’ll want them.

Who This Is For

This series is built for young leaders and changemakers who sense that something in how we were taught — about success, about work, about the economy — doesn’t add up, and who want both the language and the practice to imagine something better.

Our Partners

Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) and Climate Youth Resilience (CYR) have come together to design this series, bringing DEAL’s systems-mapping tools together with CYR’s facilitation methods and reflective practice.

Your education shaped how you see the world.

What if you could reshape it back?

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Dance 4 Change – A project of Climate Youth Resilience

The Problem We’re Responding To

The world has become more aware of climate change, the climate crisis, and many of the intersecting issues that make up our crisis of ideologies.

However, as much as young changemakers oppose these dominant ideologies, they continue to be affected, conditioned, and restrained by the same values, paradigms, and processes that reproduce cycles of compression, oppression, and despair in leadership.

We cannot demand change outwardly while remaining bound by the internalised effects of capitalism, neoliberalism, and colonialism. These ways of being don’t sustain people. They don’t help movements multiply. Left unchecked, they reinforce the very patterns of separation and blame we’re trying to move beyond.

We believe: how we build movements is central to the work of change and transformation

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Why Dance?

Dance is a liberatory, universal practice — one that anyone, anywhere, can tap into. It offers an accessible way into community and belonging, co-regulating our nervous systems and immersing us in embodied experience rather than purely cognitive ways of engaging.

Long before written language, dance was how our ancestors celebrated, healed, and connected to the sacred. Around the world today, Indigenous communities still use dance and song as living forms of political expression and cultural assertion, offering examples of using movement as visible and somatic resistance.

Dance gives us a language beyond written demands and policy jargon — an expansive, joyful pathway to imagining and embodying the worlds we want to build, together.

What Is Dance4Change?

Dance4Change is a joyful pathway to policymaking — built through mapping, organising, and dancing with young people across the globe.

Big Idea: Young people set the tone for policy processes that shape the worlds we are building for generations to come.

We organise around a shared mission expressed in our Youth Charter, and we channel that mission into letters to policymakers — grounded, specific, and powered by a global community of young people moving together.

How It Works

Policy Pathways Workshops

We meet with partners and participants to understand where they sit in global, regional, national, and local policy landscapes — and find where joy, play, and creativity can add real value to the advocacy work already underway.

Charter Writing & Letter Signing

Inspired by South Africa’s Children’s Rights Charter, our ambassadors and partners have written a charter — an umbrella vision for everything Dance4Change stands for, naming what young people need to feel cared for in society. Partner organisations can contextualise this into their own letters, naming specific targets and policy pathways relevant to their work.

Dancing to Pata Pata

Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata (“Touch Touch”) is at the heart of our gatherings — a song that helps us feel our fundamental interconnectedness and creates the conditions for joy and belonging in every dialogue, event, and gathering we hold.

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A world where creating the conditions for young people to thrive is understood as key to the flourishing of the whole planet.

When young people know and remember their own power, they become the bridges that change worlds and shepherd transformation by already living new worlds into being.

For movements to be sustainable, they must reflect and practice the worlds they wish to see now. Justice is something we practice, rather than something that is handed to us.

Elders — Policy Collaboration alongside Research & Evaluation ~ Established organisations with deep experience in research, policy advocacy, and campaigning on wellbeing, mental health, education, and flourishing — help us understand the terrain and find our entry points.

Leaders & Champions — Youth Organisations ~ Youth-led and youth-serving organisations charting the path forward with us — invested in the narrative of young people’s resilience, wellbeing, and flourishing in the climate space.

In one year, we aim to:

  • Identify the governments paving the way for policies like these to be enacted
  • Build a network of policy “elders” offering insight — as opposed to leading the network
  • Establish youth organisations as our leading youth council
  • Map energy and momentum across regions
  • Cultivate a tight, connected network working toward young people’s flourishing worldwide

In three years, we aim for:

  • Young people’s involvement in world-building to be treated as essential, not an afterthought
  • The pathways young people create to shape policy as valued and documented
  • Regional blocs to prioritise young people’s wellbeing as a foundational policy value
  • Dance4Change to be recognised as a legitimate means for young people to engage in policy

Our 10-year target:

  • 1,000 youth organisations supported in building joyful pathways to policymaking
  • 100 countries recognising and ratifying a charter for the care of young people
  • Community-led, joyful pathways research recognised by policymakers as vital data

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Dance4Change is powered by committed partners, leaders, and funders allowing us move where the momentum is. If you believe that joy, care, and embodiment belong at the center of policymaking — we’d love to build with you.

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CYR Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change

Applications for 2026 are closed

How the Programme Changes and Moves Us

The Ambassadorship advances capacities in leading with courage, changing systems as young people, sharpening advocacy and strategy, and build bridges and communities of belonging.

The Capstones invite the opportunity to work collaboratively as we integrate all we learn to bring these capacities back to our communities.

Over the 8 month journey together, Ambassadors deepen leadership and resilience capacities, tapping collective insight and wisdom for the benefit of all. They weave a global network of young worldmakers that are learning to show up with inspirational confidence, dignity, and trust.

After the success of our 2025 programme, we are excited to once again offer this free 8-month course. 

In 2026, Climate Youth Resilience hopes to train at least 60 young people as Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change.

This programme is for youth aged 18-35 who are motivated and passionate about young people’s inner worlds, inner practice, and bringing forward political, societal, and environmental change from the inside out. 

Do we have a match?

We’re looking for Ambassadors aligned with our values and principles of collaboration, community, co-creation, emergence, inherent dignity and belonging

Our second Ambassadors for Inner-Led Change Cohort will include representatives from our 6 global regions: Asia-Pacific, Europe, LATAM, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and SWANA. 

Additionally, we will have a UK-based cohort thanks to our partnership with the Inner Climate Response Alliance (ICRA). 

Our Ambassadors:

  • Are leaders in climate organisations or otherwise working to bring wisdom practices into their local community to lead differently as we build new worlds
  • Know that we are not separate from nature, and advocate for the connection between our inner worlds and the metacrisis we face
  • Want to learn how to show up in ways that make inner resilience as sustainable as outer adaptation
  • Prioritise presence, care, and showing up for the community and beyond.
What will we do together this year?

Our 2026 cohort will focus on 4 target learning and practice areas:

  • Courageous Leadership for Humanity
  • Systems Change for Young People
  • Advocacy Strategy
  • Bridging and Belonging

In addition to the 4 immersive modules above, the Ambassadorship concludes with a 4-week Capstone Development Project to consolidate learnings and bring them forward, creating and co-creating an offering for your community. In this final module of the program, you become the leader and guide, sharing your knowledge and insights with others.

The programme covers eight months of learning, sensing, and embodying together, from April to November 2026:

Months
Big Welcome  w/c 27 April
Module 0: Onboarding w/c 4 May  
Module 1: Courageous Leadership w/c 11 May – 15 June
6 Weeks 
Break Week + Optional Regional Gathering 1 w/c 22 June
Module 2: Systems Change for YP  w/c 29 June – 3 Aug  
6 Weeks 
Break Week + Optional Regional Gathering 2 w/c 10 Aug 
Module 3: Advocacy Strategy w/c 17 Aug – 24 Aug 
2 Weeks
Module 4: BB w/c 31 Aug – 28 Sep 
5 Weeks
Break Week + Optional Regional Gathering 3 w/c 5 Oct 
Module 5: Capstone w/c 12 Oct – W/c 2 Nov
4 Weeks
Break Weeks + Finalising Submissions w/c 9 Nov 
Graduation Ceremony 🎉🎓 w/c 23 Nov

Each week, there will be two 90-minute Live Sessions to cater to the multiple time zones in our cohort. You are required to attend 1 Live Session per week. We require live attendance at these Live Sessions as part of the eligibility to graduate.

After the programme ends, you will have tools and insights to train others in your community.

Together, we will create a global circle of youth climate leaders who are passionate, inspired, and capable of leading from the heart, who are comfortable and confident in bringing inner-led change to both the global stage and in local communities. 

Our Ambassadors will reach all the corners of the globe — uniting to shift narratives. We will build worlds of belonging, weaving across borders and difference, and inspiring action that supports our shared dream of a socially just, climate just Earth. 

How will the programme change me?

CYR Ambassadors will learn a range of skills drawing on their own knowledges and lived experience, and on programmeme content. Listed below are some of the qualities Ambassadors will nurture.

  • Capacity to advocate for the necessity of inner care in public conversation and policymaking
  • Practice decolonisation and build capacities to show up confidently in challenging spaces that perpetuate dominant narratives
  • Deepened confidence in one’s own gifts, inherent wisdom, embodied leadership
  • Practice engaging with pathways for liberation and peacebuilding, from the inside to the outside
  • Speak confidently about the importance of caring for the whole of our beings
  • Bridge divides when they encounter them in their community or globally
  • Feel strengthened in their leadership and in bringing inner work to general climate and environmental considerations
  • Lead communities in ways that acknowledge the link between climate impacts and mental health
  • Leadership in appreciating how to tap into the innate wisdom and knowledges and bring these to climate action
  • We will continue to emphasise decolonisation and build capacities to show up confidently in challenging spaces that perpetuate dominant narratives
  • Cultivating cultures of care

Through practising together, CYR Ambassadors will:

  • elevate inner resilience while at the same time bridging and blending the inner and outer and kindling our relationships with nature
  • recognise the toll on young people of climate impacts, providing care and nurturing capacities for bridging and building worlds of belonging
  • participate in a growing global movement that cares about mental health and wellbeing as well as cultivating practices that protect kindness, compassion, gratitude, joy, insight, wisdom and hidden knowledges.
Who is this programme for?

If you are inspired by worldmaking, inner-led change, cultivating and spreading practices of care, tapping into our innate wisdom, weaving ancestral and indigenous sciences with modern nervous system sciences, we are so happy you found us.

To make the most of this programme, we are looking for young people who are already in positions of leadership in their organisations. We are focusing on participants who already have a platform with which to amplify this work – for example, leaders of climate organisations, community programmes, and local resilience networks. Ideally our Ambassadors are already part of the global Climate Youth Resilience community.

Contact cyr@mindfulnessinitative.org.uk for more information about our global mapping project. 

What is the selection process?
  1. Visit the application page and apply between 4th March – 24th March UTC +0
  2. The Application will be live on this website from Wednesday, 4th March to Wednesday, 25th March. Applications close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 25th March. 
  3. Applications will be reviewed between Wednesday, 26th March and Wednesday, 8th April. 
  4. Shortlisted Applicants will be invited to interview week commencing 13th April. 
  5. Accepted applicants for this 2026 cohort will be notified by Wednesday, 22nd April 2026.
  6. First Global Gathering of CYR Ambassador candidates will take place week commencing 27th April. 

We are particularly looking for young people with sufficient experience as well as organizational and community support. 

If accepted to the programme, we require full attendance across this eight month programme. All components of the programme are compulsory. Please only apply if you feel confident that you can attend at least 80% of the weekly live sessions. Your presence makes a huge difference to enlivening the culture of care that we cultivate at CYR. AI generated applications will be automatically disqualified. 

What are the limitations of this programme?

Currently, this programme will be delivered in English. CYR Regional Conveners will provide translations as far as we can to facilitate greater participation, access, and understanding.

While it is our ambition to make this programme multilingual, we unfortunately cannot yet guarantee that learning materials will be translated. CYR remains committed to correcting this limitation. If you are, or know of, a funder who would like to contribute to supporting the language accessibility of this programme, please contact us at cyr@mindfulnessinitiative.org.uk.

This programme is held completely online via Zoom. As a result, strong Internet access with video conferencing capacity is required. This virtual platform is an essential component of the CYR Ambassador programme and we request that all applicants have sufficient Internet access to participate with ease across the eight months.

Do I need any special experience or knowledge?

All levels of inner practice are welcome.

We hope that all participants have enthusiasm for this transformative approach to climate action and social change. Additionally, we ask that our CYR Ambassadors have care, compassion, and respect for one another.

Our values are: Collaboration, Community, Co-creation, and Emergence. We practice “power with” and “power within.” This means that we leverage difference, know when to step back so others can step in, and we are sensitive to power dynamics and how we show up.

We will shape the foundations of compassion, kindness, and worldmaking in our time together.

If you are aligned with these values, please join us.

Do I have to pay to apply or participate in the Ambassadors programme?

No, the CYR Ambassadors programme is offered completely free to everyone who is admitted to the cohort.

This is thanks to the generosity of the Robert H N Ho Foundation. Your contribution to this programme is your presence and attention during the sessions, and commitment and dedication to your learning process, your peers, and the community you represent. Your capstone project proposal will be presented to other ambassadors and will be published on our website.

If you are a potential funder and would like to support this programme, please contact cyr@mindfulnessinitiative.org.uk. We are actively looking for financial support to increase our capacity to deliver this programme in the global South.If you are aligned with these values, please join us.

What language will the course be delivered in?

For the time being, this programme is offered in English.

We are working hard to find a solution to deliver translations but cannot promise that translations will be available by the time the programme begins. Please let us know if you have any suggestions to make the programme more accessible – we are very open to your ideas!

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Planetary Peace

Co-creating a peacebuilding paradigm with Youth

“We aim to equip youth with the skills, knowledge, and support needed to become transformative peacebuilders within their communities.

By focusing on personal, social, and practical development, we believe youth can lead the way toward sustainable peace, resilience, and social harmony”

– The 50 Percent Team

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Global Workshops

Join our global workshops on a range of topics including:
  • Practicing Liberation;
  • Creating Space for Composting Grief;
  • How we show up:
  • Courage & Imposter Syndrome;
  • Love & Rage (aka Lama Rod);
  • Resilience & Flourishing;
  • and Deep Systems Change.

We will also host Ambassadors for Inner-led Change Info Sessions during February 2025.

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CYR Global Youth Summit

Young people around the world are impacted by the escalating climate crisis. Let’s:
  • light the fire and connect ourselves across borders and cultures,
  • find our inner grounding and guidance,
  • work towards solutions together,
  • and make the future that we want to live in!

Journey from inspiration to transformation with us at our first ever CYR Global Summit, where we aim to bring young voices together around the themes of climate crisis, mental health, inner-led leadership, and peacebuilding.

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366 Gifts of Practice

366 Gifts of Practice – January – Playlist

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366 Gifts of Practice – February – Playlist

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31 Days of Peace

31 Days of Peace – Playlist

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CYR on Bridging Inner Landscapes

Bridging is the language of our time. A few members of the CYR Team discussed their experience of the Bridging and Belonging programme offered by the Othering  & Belonging Institute University. Join us in hearing what Bridging and becoming Bridgers means to us in different contexts. We hope to all become Bridgers and would like to hear whether you do too!

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Music and mindfulness

We kick off this section with a peek into music and mindfulness, a genre taking off as a way of reaching inside ourselves to process our realities and forge community. In this video, DJ and Mindfulness Initiative Board Member, Kareen Griffiths, chats with Cathy-Mae about her pathway into this expansive field. 

Music, we know from our community, is present in so many areas of our lives and our cultures. It evokes memories, feelings and associations of cultures and communities. Please have a listen and let us know how this story and account of a contemplative journey through music lands for you.

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Christmas Jingle Jams

CYR Christmas Vibe Check – Jingle Jams 🎄🎶 – Playlist

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We will dive into a festive playlist filled with all your favourite Christmas classics and modern hits, thoughtfully blended to keep your holiday season calm and bright.

From the infectious cheer of Mariah Carey to the nostalgic rhythms of Boney M’s holiday specials, we’ve got the perfect mix to get you going. Join us to spread joy, embrace mindfulness, and celebrate the season with a balance of high spirits and peaceful moments. Sing along, dance, or simply relax as we get into the holiday spirit together! ✨🎄

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