About

Jayde Barber is a multidisciplinary practitioner working at the intersection of yoga, mental health, education, and visual storytelling. With a background in mental health, peer support, and social work—particularly alongside homeless and underserved youth at Youth Moving On—Jayde’s work centers nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and making restorative and healing tools more accessible to communities that have historically had limited access to them.

Jayde has been practicing yoga since the age of eight, first turning to mindful movement as a way to manage severe anxiety and panic. That lived experience continues to shape her approach to teaching: grounded, trauma-informed, and focused on using embodied practices to calm the nervous system and support collective well-being. After completing her 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Tree Yoga Cooperative, Jayde began offering accessible yoga through Tides of Jayde, bringing nervous-system-supportive movement into community, workplace, and public spaces with an emphasis on inclusivity, self and collective regulation, and accessibility.

Alongside her movement work, Jayde is the visual artist and photographer behind Mandella Captures. She began working with a camera in elementary school, initially drawn to self-portraiture as a way to explore identity and self-perception. Over time, that curiosity expanded into portraiture of others, and eventually into a wide range of photographic subjects and genres, as well as select videography projects. Her visual work is rooted in presence, storytelling, and honoring people as they are—often focusing on moments of authenticity, transition, and embodiment.

Jayde is also the creator of Students of Mind, a project and platform dedicated to mental health education, reflection, and self-inquiry. Students of Mind explores how awareness, emotional literacy, and nervous system understanding can be cultivated outside of traditional clinical settings, offering accessible tools and conversations that support personal growth and collective care.

Across all of her work—movement, photography, and education—Jayde’s intention remains consistent: to make practices of healing, creativity, and self-understanding more accessible to those who are often excluded from them. Whether through yoga, visual storytelling, or mental health education, her work invites people to slow down, reconnect, and build resilience from the inside out.