Next Step Adventure is ready to help you level up.

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Through a unique blend of development, leadership, and facilitation, we help you reach the next level with an approach that’s different // mindful // fun // creative.

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What We’re Up To

We’ve just published the second edition of the Mindfulness & Movement Activity Cards, GROWTH DECK. Same great activities; new look. We’ve also dropped the price. Help your favorite student’s teacher guide her class to SETTLE, CREATE and PLAY. I bet their teacher will thank you every day!

Do you want to practice more mindfulness each day?

Mindfulness & Movement Activity Cards by Next Step showing cover and sections of Foundation Deck
Central Iowa Yoga Retreat Flyer 2025

Save the date for the 2025 Central Iowa Yoga Retreat–April 5, 2025.

Join us at Raccoon River Nature Lodge in West Des Moines. Come to move, and leave with community. Contact Ashley for more info on teaching and attending.

We’re organizing a retreat where you can connect with old friends, and make some new ones. Spring isn’t THAT far away!

Shelly and Sara work closely with the Iowa Farm to School movement. Sara works with the Farm, Food, and Enterprise Development at ISU, and Shelly teaches nutrition to kids through Pick a Better Snack.

Eating well is crucial to good health, and local food is a growing concern in Iowa.

Autumn is here. Lots of healthy, local foods are in your grocery store. Do you know how to use them?

June and Hazel on the mulch pile at Sprouts Garden, Drake University
June wishing Happy Chinese New Year

The pandemic and the need for kids to learn at home inspired us to develop a collection of home learning resources that parents (and teachers) could use with their kiddos. We still offer them FOR FREE.

Creating unique ways to get your point across, and deepen understanding of the world and its mysteries.

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  • Getting around
    As I prepare to head out for my fourth day in Warsaw, I’m a little hesitant. The confidence I built in the first two days took a hit yesterday as I ventured far from the Old Town, and dang! My feet are tired. I also bought a ticket for a six pm boat ride. Even …
  • Getting My Bearings
    Here I am in Warsaw, exploring largely on my own. It’s challenging for this Libra to have unstructured time on her hands. Decisions are hard sometimes because all the options look good. Or at least good enough. Yesterday I read this post about the month of Leo; it helped me get my bearings and tap …
  • Travel expands
    Travel is exhausting but it doesn’t compare to the grueliing ordeal our ancestors survived when they immigrated to the United States.