Sitting Still Like a Frog

Sitting Still Like a Frog

PDF Sitting Still Like a Frog Download

  • Author: Eline Snel
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 0834829193
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 125

Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions—with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.


Breathe through This

Breathe through This

PDF Breathe through This Download

  • Author: Eline Snel
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 0834830477
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

You try to be supportive through all the emotional ups and downs, but if you’re too supportive, they feel smothered. You want to give them the freedom necessary to grow, but not so much that they’re left vulnerable—and however you try to do it, you can count on being wrong. Parenting a teenager is a challenge, to be sure, but Eline Snel has some very good news for those facing that challenge: there’s a way to stay mindful, present, and, yes, positive throughout it all by developing a base of mindful awareness as your resource. With her characteristic practical wisdom, Snel provides methods for developing that resource, along with strategies for forging a bond of courage, compassion, and trust with your teenager—and for making space for yourself within the process too. Mindfulness meditation helps us stay calm in tense moments and be less reactive with our children. It allows us to respond to them in ways that are most helpful and that promote dialogue rather than clashing. The practices that Snel teaches, developed in her clinical work and honed in her own experience as a parent, are supplemented with one audio download of guided meditations for parents and another one for teens. They will help you calm down during tense and heated moments and become a more focused and openhearted parent.


The Little Frog Awakes

The Little Frog Awakes

PDF The Little Frog Awakes Download

  • Author: Eline Snel
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 1611809452
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

Parenting toddlers can be challenging but mindfulness can help! The popular author of Sitting Still Like a Frog offers advice and tools for parents of kids ages 18 months-4 years to respond skillfully and with mindful intention, especially in difficult moments. ​In The Little Frog Awakes, Eline Snel offers parents of young children advice and tools for responding mindfully and effectively in the moment. These skills help us regain trust in ourselves and in the integral wholeness of our kids. And when we make mindfulness practice a part of daily life, it gives our children a powerful message on how to recognize, name, and deal with emotions and situations. This practical guide will help you to: • connect with and respond mindfully to your own feelings as they arise • cultivate compassion for yourself as a parent or caregiver through meditations and breathing practices • encourage serenity, self-confidence, and emotional regulation in your children, through stories and activities • strengthen your bond with your kids and help all of you manage stress • be more fully present with your children, and more able to give them your undivided attention • embrace imperfection and focus on the things that really matter • and more The book and the accompanying audio include activities, practices, and stories for both you and for your toddler that cultivate mindful moments and action, and self-compassion.


Peaceful Piggy Meditation

Peaceful Piggy Meditation

PDF Peaceful Piggy Meditation Download

  • Author: Kerry Lee MacLean
  • Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
  • ISBN: 0807593052
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 34

The Coalition of Visionary Resources Children's Book of the Year Winner What can you do when you're mad, sad, or anxious? Find a quiet spot, sit, and breathe. When you meditate every day, your mind stays happy, and even bad days are a little easier. Sometimes life seems like it's all about hurrying—so many places to go! And sometimes it's hard when things don't go your way—it can make a piggy angry and sad. So how do young piggies find a peaceful place in a frustrating world? They meditate! They find a quiet spot, a special place with a few simple things, and just breathe. They do this every day, feeling their breath going in and out. They slow down and calm down. Now it's easier to deal with whatever comes their way, and they have time to notice all the magical things in life, too!


Yoga Pretzels

Yoga Pretzels

PDF Yoga Pretzels Download

  • Author: Tara Lynda Guber
  • Publisher: Barefoot Books
  • ISBN: 9781905236046
  • Category : Hatha yoga
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110

A playful and easy way to teach yoga.


Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda

Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda

PDF Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda Download

  • Author: Lauren Alderfer
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 086171850X
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

This wonderful picture book for children and adults alike introduces the powerful practice of mindfulness in a fun and exciting way. With the delightful Monkey and his serene friend Happy Panda guiding readers to a calmer and more attentive mind, this whimsical yet warm presentation will delight all readers. As our story begins, Monkey is not so mindful - his Monkey Mind constantly jumping from one thing to another - but he encounters a mysterious and playful friend in Happy Panda. Panda helps Monkey recognize the simple joy of doing what you're doing while you're doing it.


Somatic Descent

Somatic Descent

PDF Somatic Descent Download

  • Author: Reginald A. Ray
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 0834842963
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

A powerful meditation practice for connecting with your body's innate, guiding wisdom. Have you ever had a "gut feeling" about a certain person or situation? Or a sense of intuition about how to respond to a particular challenge in your life? There's nothing magical or mystical about those kinds of scenarios. In fact, our body contains immense wisdom not directly available to our conscious mind, and it is continually communicating to us in the form of bodily feelings, impressions, sensations, corporeal intuitions, and felt senses. However, because most of us are so cut off from our somatic experience, we are quite unaware of this dimension of our body's expression. Although this intelligence may feel hidden most of the time, the wisdom of the body can actually be a guide for us in living our lives fully and also in responding compassionately to others. Through a meditation practice called Somatic Descent, Reggie Ray shows us how to connect with our body's intuitive intelligence. In Somatic Descent we see that the body is always showing us what sort of response, direction, or action may be called for at any given time, and can in fact be relied upon as a primary practical resource for decision-making in our everyday life. The book will include links to online audio recordings of the guided meditations to further aid the reader.


Radiant Rest

Radiant Rest

PDF Radiant Rest Download

  • Author: Tracee Stanley
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 1611808553
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Develop a powerful practice of deep relaxation and transformative self-inquiry with this essential guide to yoga nidra, accompanied by downloadable audio meditations. Yoga nidra is a practice devoted to allowing your body and mind to rest while your consciousness remains awake and aware, creating the opportunity for you to tap into a deeper understanding of yourself and your true nature. At its heart, yoga nidra is about waking up to the fullness of your life. In Radiant Rest, Tracee Stanley draws on over twenty years of experience as a yoga nidra teacher and practitioner to introduce the history of yoga nidra, mind and body relaxation, and the surprising power of rest in our daily lives. This accessible guide shares six essential practices arranged around the koshas, the five subtle layers of the body: the physical, energetic, mental, intuitive, and bliss bodies. It also offers shorter, accessible practices for people pressed for time. Each practice is explained through step-by-step instructions and ends with self-inquiry prompts. A set of guided audio meditations provide further instruction. Feel a greater sense of stability, peace, and clarity in all aspects of your life as you deepen your yoga nidra practice and discover its true power.


Mindful Games

Mindful Games

PDF Mindful Games Download

  • Author: Susan Kaiser Greenland
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 0834840529
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and to identify and regulate emotions Playing games is a great way for kids to improve their focus and become more mindful. In this book, The Mindful Child author Susan Kaiser Greenland shares how parents, caregivers, and teachers can bring mindfulness into the classroom or home. She provides 50 entertaining games that develop what she calls the new “A, B, C’s”—Attention, Balance, and Compassion—for your child’s learning, happiness, and success, offering context and guidance throughout. She introduces: • Anchor games that develop concentration • Visualization games that encourage kindness and focus • Analytical games that cultivate clear thinking • Awareness games for sensory awareness, self-regulating emotions, and gaining insight into ourselves, others, and relationships Even though the games are designed for kids, they can be just as fun and transformative for adults. Greenland encourages parents and caregivers to develop their own Attention, Balance, and Compassion and to explore the universal concepts that she presents. Our own mindfulness has a powerful effect on everyone in our lives—especially our children. “A wonderful, fun, and engaging way to bring mindfulness into a child’s life.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence


Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path

Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path

PDF Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path Download

  • Author: Thubten Chodron
  • Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

Snow Lion's bestselling author teaches practitioners to calm their minds, still mental chatter, and cultivate compassion in over fourteen hours of guided meditations. An outstanding and engaging introduction to the stages of the path, a step-by-step meditation program. Run time: 15 hours