Leslie Glickman doesn't like to call herself the yoga queen of Boca Raton. But after 20 years she's so well known, her master class will be center stage at National Mom's Nite Out at Town Center at Boca Raton. You can also find her in Sanborn Square on Saturday mornings, a new city perk to help generate foot traffic downtown.

That's Glickman looking half her age holding court on the floor, as bloggers relax on mats for a preview of "Zen for the Mom" from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Nordstrom wing of the mall. Mothers are invited free and without the children for a breather: meditation, music, massage, a Lululemon Athletica fashion show, and gentle exercise before the mad rush of Mother's Day on May 13.

Guess whose picture is in the yoga and running gear store? That's right, Glickman, whose business is called Yoga Journey. A walking ad for yoga, she turned to instructing after co-owning Michael's Body Scene gym in Boca Del Mar. "I still teach there," she said.

The Saturday morning class came through a city worker and her volunteer work with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, the walk in Mizner Park in October. "This is my community and we should be creating community through yoga," Glickman said, adding that's she up to about 40 devotees every Saturday morning.

At a California Pizza Kitchen food tasting later, founder Maria Bailey said she was relieved not to have to "hop on a plane" to one of 1,100 National Mom's Nite Outs she started five years ago.

She said 133 malls are doing this now. "This started with a tweet that everyone felt like Mother's Day is so much work. Suddenly, there were 800 events across the country."

Now her own brand with the large agency BSM Media in Pompano Beach and clients like Walmart, the author and Mom Talk Radio host said she'll tweet from the event at the mall in Boca. Bailey's event web site is momsniteout.com/.

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Yoga queen plus the founder at National Mom's Nite Out