Every child deserves to know there is more than one right way to learn.
I’m Natasha Hanina, founder and creator of Tashi Non-Stop. As an artist, educator, and performer, I created Tashi Non-Stop to make learning feel joyful, active, and welcoming for children, including neurodivergent and ADHD learners.
The idea grew from my own experience of learning through imagination, movement, creativity, and humour—and from years of seeing how differently children engage, explore, and understand.
Imagination became my language.Now it helps children discover their own way to shine.
Natasha Hanina
Founder and Creator, Tashi Non-Stop
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Some minds imagine first. Some move first. Some create first. Some laugh first. Every one of those minds deserves to shine.
The story behind Tashi Non-Stop
A different way of learning became my superpower.
This is the story of feeling out of step, finding confidence through creativity, and building the teachers I wished I had.
01
Growing up
I thought there was something wrong with me.
Growing up in England, I sat in maths class with my heart in my stomach while the teacher explained percentages and algebra. Everyone else seemed to understand. My brain simply shut down.
The harder I tried, the more anxious I became. Back then, ADHD was not well understood. When there seemed to be one “right” way to learn, it was easy to believe I just was not smart enough.
“There goes Tashi again.”
Curiosity and imagination were part of the story from the beginning.An early chapter full of movement, curiosity, and make-believe.
02
Finding my superpower
Then I walked into art and drama class.
Suddenly, learning felt different. My imagination came alive. For the first time, I felt capable instead of inadequate.
Humour became my confidence. Creativity became my language. The things that made me different were not weaknesses—they were clues to how my mind learned best.
Performance offered a place where being different could feel powerful.
What I discovered
Creativity changed how learning felt.
Imagination made learning feel possible.
Humour became a source of confidence.
Creative spaces helped difference feel like strength.
03
Becoming a teacher
Children showed me the same truth every day.
My love of creativity led me to earn a Master’s in Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Later, I spent years teaching Pre-K and Kindergarten children.
Children do not all learn the same way.
Some need to move. Some need to imagine. Some need to laugh. Some need to create before they understand.
Studying art education gave the imagination a purpose.Learning how to teach became part of learning how to reach every child.The classroom made one truth clear: every child learns differently.Movement, dress-up, and participation helped lessons become memorable.
Classroom art projects
Creativity became a way to explore, remember, and make meaning.
Recycled materials
Wearable Sculptures: Turning Trash into Art
Project Objective: To inspire creativity and environmental awareness by transforming recycled materials and everyday objects into imaginative, wearable sculptures.
Through hands-on exploration, students discover how ordinary discarded materials can become extraordinary works of art.
Everyday materials became imaginative wearable sculpture.
Students explored how discarded materials could become expressive art.
Mixed-media storytelling
The Journey: Wild Trips, Weird Places
Project Objective: To inspire students to transform their travel memories and personal experiences into expressive mixed-media collages using photographs, maps, found objects, and a variety of textures.
Inspired by artist Dan Eldon, students explored color, composition, and visual storytelling to bring their journeys to life through art.
Travel memories become layered visual stories through maps, photographs, objects, and texture.
Colour, composition, and found materials help each memory take on a new visual life.
Personal experiences are reimagined through mixed-media collage.
Maps and collected imagery become part of the storytelling.
Different textures and found objects add depth to the story.
Each collage reflects a different memory, place, and point of view.
Inspired by visual storytelling, students turned experiences into expressive art.
Nature + bookmaking
Accordion Books: Bringing Nature Into Art
Students created their own handmade accordion books using dried flowers, leaves, recycled materials, and printmaking techniques. Through hands-on exploration, they discovered texture, pattern, color, and composition while transforming natural materials into personal works of art. This multisensory project encouraged creativity, artistic expression, and an appreciation for the beauty of nature.
Dried flowers and leaves became part of a handmade accordion book.
Hands-on making encouraged exploration of texture, pattern, and composition.
Natural and recycled materials invited close looking, arranging, and creative expression.
04
The moment it clicked
I realized I didn’t have to choose between being a teacher and being a performer.
Teaching art, improv, and theatre to young children, along with performing stand-up comedy, showed me that learning and laughter belong together. That’s when I realized I could create the learning world I had always wished existed when I was a child.
I could combine both—and invite children into learning through big characters, funny voices, wild adventures, and participation.
Comedy
Storytelling
Music
Art
Movement
Imagination
Characters could make an invitation to learn feel personal and fun.Comedy helped shape the joyful teaching voice behind Tashi Non-Stop.Making characters joined art, story, humour, and imagination in one place.
Recognition & media
A few places Tashi has been seen and recognised
Learning guides with personality
Creating the teachers I wished I had
So I created the learning world I wished I’d had as a child—a place where stories become adventures, movement is celebrated, imagination is a strength, and unforgettable characters become the teachers I always wished I’d had.
Not ordinary teachers. Characters. A Queen. A French Chef. A Scottish fitness instructor. A wildlife explorer.
Every character exists to help children discover that learning can feel joyful. They turn instructions into invitations and challenges into stories worth joining.
That approach sits at the heart of Tashi Non-Stop’s ADHD-friendly, neurodivergent learning experiences: short, playful invitations that combine story, movement, creativity, and participation.
★Different is not less. Different can be magnificent.
Welcome to our learning world
Tashi Non-Stop is more than screen time.
It is a colourful, multisensory world where children are invited to move, laugh, imagine, and participate.
Every story, activity, song, and adventure is designed with neurodivergent learners in mind—while creating joyful learning moments for every kind of child.
Story-led learning
Movement and multisensory play
Creative confidence
My mission
There is not just one right way to learn.
That is why I created Tashi Non-Stop. I want children to experience learning as a place where their curiosity, movement, humour, and imagination belong.
I hope every child discovers, as I eventually did, that there isn’t just one right way to learn.
With imagination,Tashi 💜
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