Guided Meditations for kids

 Introducing our new intentionally-inspired, guided meditation series carefully curated to give small children the tools to understand and manage their big feelings. Complex music and breathing techniques help children self-regulate. A peaceful voice directs them through a self-awareness process that helps identify and validate their feelings while promoting a growth mindset.
This meditation series has been written by Zelena van der Leeden registered yoga/meditation teacher (RYT-200 certified) who is also a mother of 4. 

The Angry Bug

Children can get easily frustrated when they can’t get what they want. This guided meditation will help them tune-in with their bodies and induce relaxation through deep breathing exercises. The goal is to validate the emotion and to promote a healthy way of expressing anger.

Missing You

Saying goodbye can be heart-breaking for children (even if it’s just a temporary goodbye). This track is designed to validate sadness, while encouraging them to recreate happy memories and to be grateful.

The Good Snooze

Whether you are putting your child down for the night or for a quick nap, this track will help them develop a positive attitude towards sleeping.

Try incorporating it into your bedtime/naptime routine and adopt a peaceful approach to rest.

Time to Learn

Being in the right mindset before starting a learning activity, will motivate your children and help them focus. This track uses an age-appropriate adaptation of Bhramani breath, AKA Bumble Bee Breath. This soothing yoga breathing technique will help them focus on the task ahead while encouraging them to see the fun in learning.

Tips for parents

  • Identify the emotion for them. Let them know you understand how they are feeling, so they feel safe expressing themselves around you.  Once you have established that connection, you can play the track that best suits their emotional state .

  • Be patient. Meditation is tricky even for adults. Practice will help them develop their ability to focus for longer periods of time, 1 one can be enough.

  • Sit with your child. Take part so they can model your behavior and actions. Its about consistency.

  • Check-in with your children to see how they feel after and be open to talk about emotions a little more if they feel like it.