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SPARKLE UP YOUR CLASSES AND CREATE SOME FUN WITH THE KIDS
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Mindfulness for Children

8/8/2018

 
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​Mindfulness is cultivating the ability to have present moment awareness. In simple terms this means an openness and friendly willingness to understand what is going on around and inside of you. 

Life is busy even for kids now days, and they are finding it increasingly difficult to focus and concentrate. Stress is also on the increase in our children. 

The benefit of practicing mindfulness for a child is he/she can learn to pause for a moment, take a breath and get in touch with what they may need/feel in that moment. 

Mindfulness helps children develop the skills to accept not all things in life are great, or go their way. They learn to respond rather than react, thereby gaining tools to help them navigate their own special inner world, and the world around them.
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Mindfulness Activity

  • Today we are going to practice sitting with the special attention of a frog. 
  • Frogs are very amazing creatures as they can leap really high, but they can also sit very still. And although the frog is aware and can see everything that is going on around it – it doesn’t react right away.  
  • The frog sits still and keeps its energy instead of getting carried away by all the things that pop into its head. 
  • The frog sits still and breathes, its tummy rises a bit and falls again and then it rises and it falls – you may even like to put your hands on your tummy. 
  • Anything a frog can do you can do too – all you need is mindful attention and attention to breath – attention to peace and quiet.

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    Karen Wightman is the founder of Creative Yogis. She is an experienced, local and international children’s yoga instructor, yoga teacher trainer, and children’s art teacher. 

    She currently facilitates teacher trainings and workshops in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Taiwan.

    She has 15 years experience teaching yoga to children of all ages, from pre-school to high school, and 
    has been a children’s art teacher for 30 years.

    Karen is passionate about offering a variety of unique educational yoga resources to stimulate the imagination and capture the hearts of children.

    ​She has illustrated and published children's yoga colouring ebooks in English and Japanese. A free sample is available here.

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