Yoga, Meditation & Mindfulness for Kids Emotional Wellness

Name: Yoga, Meditation & Mindfulness for Kids Emotional Wellness
Rating: 4.1 (17 reviews)

Educate children about their feelings in a way that is light-hearted and fun with yoga, breath and fun weather themes!

Created byAshleigh Stewart

Last updated 4/2020

English

What you'll learn

Parents, teachers or caregivers will learn simple, yet fun and engaging mindfulness, yoga breathing and meditation strategies to enhance kids emotional wellness.
Specialized Yoga Pranayama (breath work) exercises adapted for children
Crafty exercises based in mindfulness to develop and enhance self awareness and self esteem
A special yoga nidra meditation for kids
Plenty of written resources by the course creator based on subjects from yoga for ADHD to intro to colour therapy for kids
Enhanced emotional intelligence for kids using fun weather themes to represent different emotional states
Bonus Downloadable full colour poster of Swim Buddy Swim! breathing buddy exercise for your kids bedroom wall
How to teach your child to harness the power of their mind to focus on positivity and their own inner power
Fun and lighthearted activities you can share as a family to enhance emotional wellness, and respect for each other's feelings and emotions
Holistic strategies that are designed to fit into even the busiest of schedules and routines.
A calming breath with aromatherapy and creative visualisation to help de-escalate anger and heightened emotions in kids

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 54m total length

Introduction to 'How's the Weather Today - My Feelings Forecast Online16:06
'How's the Weather Today?' Reviews & Message for Reviews & Message for Grown Ups9:49
This lesson is a word about the course from the author Dr. Ashleigh Stewart, a word on mindfulness and emotional intelligence for kids and reviews from an award winning school teacher and a popular children;s book author and Autism awareness advocate.
'How's the Weather Today? - It's Sunny! I Feel Happy9:31
This lesson is a discussion on the emotion of happiness using the sun as a metaphor. The lesson includes a fun and creative mindfulness based exercise designed to help children share and spread happiness when they feel it.
'How's the Weather Today? Today it's Rainy - I Feel Sad12:02
This lesson is about a rainy day, the emotion of sadness and how to help children identify it and express it. As well there is a mindfulness exercise designed to help children access the power of their mind to change their perspective to one of positivity and power.
'How's the Weather Today?' It's sunny & rainy with a rainbow! I feel uncertain11:25
This lesson is about the emotion of confusion and feelings of uncertainty, how to identify and express it. The weather theme used here is a day where the rain has subsided, the sun is shining through and a rainbow has appeared. As well there is a reflective mindfulness exercise designed to help children harness their attention to focus on what they know for sure, and who they know best, themselves!
How's The Weather Today? It's thundery and I feel angry!9:45
This lesson is about the emotion of anger, how to identify it and express it using the weather theme of a thunderstorm to convey it. We also explore how feeling anger can be a positive experience, indicative of someone who has heightened feelings of passion, creativity and certainty about something they believe in.
This lesson includes a calming yoga pranayama, breathing exercise, along with creative visualisation and an option for enhancement with aromatherapy to help settle heightened emotions.
'How's the Weather Today?' It's windy! I feel anxious15:30
This lesson discusses feelings of anxiety using the wind as a metaphor to illustrate what anxiety feels like. We also discuss the ayurvedic dosha 'Vatta' as it correlates to the energy of air, and feelings of movement and anxiety.
The lesson includes a traditional yoga pranayama 'belly breath' exercise called 'Swim Buddy Swim' using creative visualisation and imagination to harness the power of your child's mind, breath and body as one.
This lesson includes a free full color printable poster of the exercise to hang on your wall.
'How's the Weather Today? It is snowing! I feel calm11:22
This lesson is about a snowy day, and how it relates to feelings of calm. There is a mindfulness exercise included in this lesson to help build upon, and to enhance feelings of calmness, peace, serenity and appreciation so they gain momentum over feelings of stress and anxiety in your child's day to day life.
'How's the Weather Today? Night is falling and I feel sleepy11:42
This lesson uses night to illustrate and convey feelings of sleepiness and rest. The lesson includes a special children's yoga nidra lesson. Yoga nidra is an advance yoga technique to help relax and calm the body and mind, turning away from the stressors of the external world.
'How's the Weather Today?' Conclusion and Thank you!7:07
This is the conclusion of the course. Here we have learnt to understand that no matter the feeling or emotion, you always have the power within to change your perspective to one of goodness, positivity, gratitude happiness and peace, no matter the weather! This course has taught your child how.

Requirements

None required

Description

This is an online course based on the popular children's book about feelings, 'How's the Weather Today? - My Feelings Forecast' by Dr. Ashleigh Stewart.

Featuring brightly illustrated images and fun weather themes, this course has been created to help educate children about the daily awareness of their feelings in a way that is light-hearted and fun.

This online course features workable lessons in identifying, understanding, expressing and managing different emotions. The exercises are based on variations of yoga pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, mindfulness exercises with crafts, and even yoga nidra for kids!

I wrote and illustrated the original book 'How's the Weather Today? - My Feelings Forecast' with my children several years ago and feel so proud of our work! I am now even happier to share the online version complete with exercises to help balance, or enhance all the emotional states covered. I really wish to support you if you are a parent with children at home, or are a teacher or guardian with children in your care in a way that is easy, yet effective and fun.

I hope this course will help you support your children emotionally stressful times, as well as offer some fun activities you can share with your child and family too for fun!

Who this course is for:

Parents, teachers or caregivers of children