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Friendly Wishes: The Jewel, guided by Annaka Harris

Friendly Wishes: Floating, guided by Annaka Harris

Friendly Wishes: Colors, guided by Annaka Harris

Mindful Breathing - For Beginners, guided by Annaka Harris

Mindful Breathing - Full Exercise, guided by Annaka Harris

Mindful Hearing guided by Annaka Harris

SKG Mindful Listening

SKG Counting Backwards For Sleep

SKG Butterfly Body Scan

SKG A Peaceful Place

Do you ever feel sad or upset?  I feel that way sometimes When I do, visiting my peaceful place can help me feel better. - A guided meditation for children from Susan Kaiser Greenland.

A Peaceful Place

Have you ever felt worked up and had a hard time concentrating?  
I know I have.   When I feel that way it’s helpful to focus on something fun, playful, and calming.  Like a butterfly! - A guided meditation for children from Susan Kaiser Greenland

Butterfly Body Scan

Sometimes I feel restless when I go to bed and then I have a hard time going to sleep. Does that happen to you?  Counting backward can help me drift off. Would you like to try?  A guided meditation for children from Susan Kaiser Greenland.

Counting Breaths Backward for Sleep

You can train your mind to pay attention to even the littlest things.
Like sounds. Have you ever noticed, that even when a room seems quiet and no one is talking, there are sounds happening around you? Just listening for those sounds will help you see and hear other things that you might have otherwise missed.  A guided meditation for children from Susan Kaiser Greenland.

Mindful Listening

In this guided practice from Susan Kaiser Greenland, children listen to the rain and pay attention to the changing nature of sounds, breathing, thoughts and feelings. 

Listening2Rain

Follow the light within (full)

LYRICS BY WOODY GUTHRIE, MUSIC BY ARLO GUTHRIE 

My peace (full)

Music and lyrics by Lyrics by Sarah Dan Jones arranged and performed by Gabe Greenland

Meditation on Breathing

Breathe-In,  Breathe-Out (full)

Peace Like a River

I Stop and Feel My Breathing

In this ten minute guided practice for older children and teens, children notice how their minds and bodies feel when they stop, breathe and be.  

Stop, Breathe, Be

In this 7-minute guided meditation from Susan Kaiser Greenland, we are reminded that we have something in common with everyone, even those who are quite a bit different than us.

Just Like Me

We learn that focusing on a long out-breath can be relaxing and help us feel calm.

Mindful Games

Breathing on Purpose: A Cooling Out Breath

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.

Mind-Body Connection

When our minds change - when we feel more relaxed, less stressed, and less reactive - our bodies change too. And when our minds and bodies change our behavior changes, which shifts outcomes, which in turn affects what happens in the world.  

In this live, half-hour track from last week's class "Mindfulness for Busy Parents," I talk about the beneficial chain reaction that meditation puts into motion and offer tips on two important aspects of meditation - why we practice and how we hold ourselves.

Change your Mind, Change the World- 10 minute introduction followed by 20 minute guided practice.

Life has a way of throwing curve balls and it’s up to us how we respond. Hoping to control the outcome, we often clamp down and think about what happened from every angle. Over and over and over again. But what would happen if we loosened our grip instead of clamping down?  

We experiment with loosening our grip on thoughts and emotions in this live, half-hour track from Susan Kaiser Greenland's class “Meditation for Busy Parents.“

This Is What It Is Right Now

Your conscious mind has very little to do with how your fight or flight response works, but there is one aspect of that branch of your nervous system that you DO have some control over -- your breathing. Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.

Mindful Parent, Mindful Child

Breathing on purpose

Scientists don't agree on how much good news it takes to balance out a single piece of bad news, but five positive inputs for every negative one is a ratio I've seen cited by several researchers. If we use a five-to-one ratio as our rule of thumb, that means let's give ourselves five enthusiastic “yesses,” for every "no!"

Five Enthusiastic Yesses for Every No

In this guided meditation for young children, Susan Kaiser Greenland sequences together three mindful games to make a single, somewhat longer, mindfulness practice.  First, we zip-ourselves up to find a comfortable upright posture. Next, we sway side-to-side while chanting a rhyme to feel what it's like to sit centered on the cushion, and last we listen to the sound of a tone fade raising our hand when the sound has stopped.

Zip-up, Tic-Tock and Fading Tone

Listen to the rain and notice whether the sound stays the same or changes. Does anything other than sound change when we relax and listen in this way? Do our bodies change? Do our minds change? In this guided meditation from Susan Kaiser Greenland, young children learn how everything changes when they focus their attention on just one thing.

Listen To The Rain

In this guided meditation for young children, we imagine that everyone has a special star that's with them all the time. We picture in our heads what our star looks and feels like and learn how just imagining it can help us feel more relaxed and calm.

Your Special Star, a guided visualization for young children led by Susan Kaiser Greenland

Susan Kaiser Greenland leads a guided meditation for those new to mindful breathing.  A live recording from a webinar for educators, this simple step-by-step introduction to mindful breathing is helpful to anyone who is new to the practice.

Mindful Breathing Intro

For six short minutes, pause and listen to what's happening in and around you. In this live recording from a webinar for parents, Susan Kaiser Greenland leads a guided meditation on sound and emotion that's suitable for everyone regardless of their level of meditation experience.

Awareness of Sound & Emotion

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