Search Results: mindfulness (52)

“Just Breathe” Children Talking About Regulating Their Anger Through Mindfulness

May 12, 2015 Kindred Media and Community

By Julie Bayer Salzman & Josh Salzman (Wavecrest Films) The inspiration for “Just Breathe” first came about a little over a year ago when I overheard my then 5-year-old son talking with his friend about how emotions affect different regions of the brain, and how to calm down by taking…

Psychology / Self-help

Five Mindfulness Blessings For The New Year

Jan 24, 2015 Amy Wright Glenn

1. May You Love. As we begin a new year, may you make an ever-increasingly courageous dedication to embody the force of love. There is no healing power greater than this force on earth. It takes only a cursory read of headline news to see how the absence of love creates…

Movies

Room to Breathe – A Documentary on Teaching Mindfulness in Schools

Mar 13, 2013 Kindred Media and Community

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Blt4daXG9H8 FIND A SCREENING Room To Breathe is a surprising story of transformation as struggling kids in a San Francisco public middle school are introduced to the practice of mindfulness meditation. Topping the district in disciplinary suspensions, and with overcrowded classrooms creating a nearly impossible learning environment, overwhelmed administrators are…

Wellbeing

Teaching Mindfulness to Children, Includes Video and Exercise!

Mar 13, 2013 Meg Cowan

Read about the documentary, Room to Breathe, a story of teaching mindfulness in schools, here. How can we build the quality of mindfulness in our children, our classrooms, and our schools? The Oakland-based Mindful Schools program, of which I am a co-founder and co-director, teaches children in public and…

Conscious Parenting

Five Ways to Return to Mindfulness With Your Children

Dec 4, 2012 Meghan Nathanson

Being mindful with your children is not about being perfect. It is about recommitting to sharing moments with them time and time again – even when you’ve gone way off of your path and have to travel a long road back to be present again. If you’ve “lost your mind”…

balance

Practical Tools for Staying Sane: Incorporating Mindfulness Into Motherhood

Oct 14, 2011 Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D.

Listen to a Mindful Motherhood teleconference with Cassandra Vieten, PhD below. You can find the online course Mindful Motherhood, at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, here. Mindful Motherhood, simply put, is being present in your body, and connected with your baby even when the going gets rough. It's being aware of…

Child development

Mothering, Mindfulness and a Baby’s Bottom – An Introduction to Diaper-free Elimination Communication

Mar 7, 2007 Sarah Buckley, M.D.

Half of the World's Children Never Wear Diapers (Eric Pearle/Taxi/Getty Images) Is it really possible to raise a baby without nappies? Can our babies actually communicate their elimination needs? Well, how do you know when your baby needs to breastfeed? Perhaps you recognise a certain gesture or cry. Perhaps your…

Attachment Parenting / Bonding

The Art Of Parenting: Learning To Live At The Edge Of The Unknown

Jan 18, 2017 Miriam Mason Martineau

As parents — as people! — we all (I’m pretty sure all of us, yes?) wish there were a simple way, a method that is tried and true and guaranteed to get us the results we hope for... be this a fitness program, a healthy diet, a supplement protocol, a…

Attachment Parenting / Bonding

Quiet Hugs

Oct 12, 2016 Michael Mendizza

Morning and Muse often arrive together. Today their light cast long shadows across the wood floor. The house was still. Up before the others I sipped fresh coffee from a white cup. Quietly the glass door to my home-office opened. Carly’s head peeked in, her blond hair looking, as she…

Attachment Parenting / Bonding

The New Story Of Childhood, Parenthood And The Human Family

Aug 6, 2016 Lisa Reagan, Executive Editor

The New Story of Parenting and Childhood with Lisa Reagan 1 hour CE from Kate White on Vimeo. The video above is from a Monday LIVE Lecture presented to the international PPNE students of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, APPPAH, in May 2016 by Lisa Reagan, Kindred's…

Videos

Healing The Rift Between Science And Spirituality

May 21, 2016 Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD, shares insights into the complementary nature of science and spirituality, a deeper understanding of integral possibilities for healing that could replace the dominant cultural belief that science and spirituality are polar opposite belief systems. Vieten is the president of the Institutes of Noetic Sciences, IONS, and the…

Conscious Parenting

The Wise Parent Study – Interview With University of Wisconsin Researcher

Mar 29, 2016 Dave Metler

The first study of its kind, The Wise Parent Study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and its research insights were pioneered by David Metler, Kindred's Contributing Editor and Families for Conscious Living board member. As Metler shares in this interview, wisdom is currently being researched at UW-Madison as a…