mindfulness meditations + more
mindfulness exercises, mindful music, podcasts, and guided meditation
Patience with Mindful Listening
You can train your mind to pay attention to even the littlest things. Like sounds.
Your Special Star
We imagine that everyone has a special star with them all the time and learn how just imagining it can help us feel more relaxed and calm.
Listen To The Rain
Young children learn how everything changes when they listen to the rain.
Zip-Up, Tick-Toc, and Fading Tone
We play three mindful games in a row to practice paying attention while moving and having fun.
breathing on purpose: a cooling out breath
We learn that focusing on a long out-breath can help us feel more relaxed and calm.
breathing with a pinwheel
We blow on a pinwheel to notice that different ways of breathing—quick, slow, deep, and shallow—affect how our minds and bodies feel.
seeing clearly
We shake a glitter ball or snow globe to help us understand the connection between what happens in our minds and what happens in our bodies.
mind-body connection
We imagine biting into a lemon to help us understand the connection between what’s happening in our minds and what’s happening in our bodies.
follow the light within
Tom Nolan from the Crossroads School and the Council in the Schools program, taught me this wonderful folk song for children of all ages.
i stop and feel my breathing
We sing a song to learn that when we stop and feel our breathing, we feel more calm and focused.
meditation on breathing
Affectionately known as "breathe-in, breathe-out" children sing this song to help them calm down if they're upset, to concentrate if they're having a hard time focusing, or just for the fun of it.
listening to the rain
In this 6-minute guided practice from Susan Kaiser Greenland, children listen to the rain and pay attention to the changing nature of the sounds, breathing, thoughts, and feelings.
rock-a-bye
In this 6-minute guided practice from Susan Kaiser Greenland, we pretend to rock a stuffed animal to sleep on our bellies to relax our bodies and quiet our minds. As we breathe in, the animal rocks up; as we breathe out, the animal rocks back down.