- Five-Step Breath
- Compassion Meditation
- Grounding Meditation
- Insight Meditation
- Open Awareness Meditation
- Body Scan Meditation
Dear Parents,
Today’s youth are growing up in a fast-paced world full of stimuli, and they often struggle to manage their emotions alongside their inner voices. While trying to regulate their joy, anger, and anxiety, they also face challenges with focus and attention. Especially with today’s exam pressures and complex question formats, their childhood and adolescence can feel like a rapidly flowing river of stress and worry.
This is where breath awareness and self-compassion practices play a crucial role. Our children are our future, yet no curriculum or school teaches them how to recognize and manage their emotions. Helping our children and teens understand their feelings, and teaching them that difficult emotions like anger or sadness are temporary, can provide great relief. Peer bullying, jealousy, or anger that begins at a young age can, when guided correctly, be transformed into compassion and kindness. And this transformation starts with self-compassion.
The benefits of the practices we will offer include:
Improved focus and attention,
Greater clarity about what they want to do and their goals,
Awareness of their emotions and learning to recognize them,
The ability to express their emotions in a healthy way.
Some examples of the practices we will use are:
Breath awareness and body scanning: Recognizing emotions in the moment and managing anxiety.
Symbols of happiness and strength: “Being as solid as a rock” and using a wish tree to develop the courage to accept emotions.
Facing sounds and maintaining calm in crises: Discovering inner strength.
Self-compassion and kindness practices: Being gentle with themselves and building a sense of trust.
Short mindfulness meditations: Age-appropriate practices such as Cloud Hands meditation and square breathing to develop attention skills.
Inspired by mindfulness books for children, teens, and adolescents, these practices help young people take brief moments to look inward, recognize what they are feeling, and learn to understand and manage their emotions. The goal is not only to improve focus but also to cultivate emotional awareness and self-compassion.