2 Minutes Mindfulness: Tree Guided Meditation for Children and Classrooms

A lot of kids are dealing with major stressors at home, either in the form of chronic stress or outright trauma. As a number of experts has pointed out, when kids are living with really bad situations outside of school, their bodies and minds are so overwrought as a result, that it’s virtually impossible for them to sit in class and learn. So intervention is almost a requisite, both from an academic point of view, and an ethical one. Meditation and mindfulness have been shown to help kids who are dealing with stressors. But it’s important to mention that many teachers and researchers feel that with kids and trauma, there has to be a physical component, because asking traumatized kids to sit still and meditate right off the bat is not going to work, and it may actually backfire.

In this video, we incorporate movement along with stillness through guided imagery to help children meditate.

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