Stress Relief With Powerful Guided Self Love Meditation & Mindfulness

ALL AGES ( 8-13)
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I truly care about each student and helping them to become their very best.  It all starts with self-love.

A consistent mindfulness routine is a life changing habit.  Mindfulness helps us reduce stress and tackle life’s inevitable challenges. Join us for weekly classes as we remember to breathe, stay grounded, and relax.  Guided visual exercises to heighten your senses and create love and peace within.  Letting go of negative emotions.

This easy and fun 3 step program is great for all ages that are needing or wanting a more focused and grounding mindfulness routine which helps to provide a more fun, successful and happy life with techniques to help lower anxiety, improve focus and concentration.

A typical class looks like this:
Introductions and brief discussion on students meditations and mindfulness.

With students seated in a quiet space, your lesson will begin with you learning a breathing technique(this technique will be done by myself and I will then have the students work on it) and you will then be encouraged to use this breathwork in a 10-15 minute guided mediation, followed by reflection with gratitude  and suggested journaling.  (A guided meditation can include taking you on a visual journey in your imagination through a forest so beautiful, safe and warm, surrounded by love from all walks of life.  Perhaps we will make our way to a beautiful rainbow waterfall with a smooth flowing river where you can drink from, this water is filled with pure love, happiness, confidence and joy. )

At the end of the session, students will be encouraged to share their experience and to journal it.  Also if time permits we will also reflect on something we are each grateful for and an affirmation per student.(examples will be given).

Each week we will focus on a specific breathing technique(posted below) which will be taught and practiced in guided meditations.  From deep and controlled breathing to a shallow and present style, these techniques will help you achieve soundness of mind.

What breathing technique are you wanting to learn to help deepen your mindfulness 

January-February       Kundalini (Diaphragm breathing)
March                          Nadi Shodhana and Pranayama (Alternate nostril breathing)
April                             Zhuanqi (Breathing until the breath is soft)
May                              Kumbhaka Pranayamas (Anatara and Bahya) (Intermittent breath retention)
June                        Kapalabhati (Fire breathing)
June                        Shamatha (Breathing As Is)
July                          Kundalini and Zhuanqi (Diaphragm breathing)

Please see below for a description on breathing techniques:
1. Shamatha (Breathing as is)
Translation: “Peacefully abiding”
Shamatha breathing is a technique centered around awareness of your breathing as it is. It’s a common practice in mindful meditation and is often referred to as the reset breath or the breath that brings you back to the present.

2. Kundalini (Diaphragm breathing)
Translation: “The life force that resides at the base of the spine”
In the practice of kundalini meditation, breathing centers around moving energy within the body through controlled breathing techniques, like diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing with your diaphragm teaches you how to use it correctly and helps strengthen it. With this technique you will be able to take in more air and decrease the oxygen demand.


3. Nadi Shodhana and Pranayama (Alternate nostril breathing)
Translation: “Channel purifying”
Similar to kundalini, pranayama is a type of meditative practice that involves controlled breathing, turning your focus to your body and finding balance internally. Nadi shodhana, or alternate nostril yoga breathing (ANYB), is the technique of breathing through one nostril at a time while closing the other nostril manually, to alternate breathing and airflow. 


4. Zhuanqi (Breathing until the breath is soft)
Translation: “Unite mind and air”
This breathing method emphasizes quieting the body and mind to find harmony with nature. Zhuanqi, similar to Buddhist meditation, is a meditative breathing technique yhat aims to unite breath and mind by focusing on your breath until it is soft. This can be done by observing the breath until it is quiet. It utilizes the abdominal muscles to elevate the diaphragm and push out air.

5. Kumbhaka Pranayamas (Anatara and Bahya) (Intermittent breath retention)
Translation: “The control of prana through retention of the breath”
Kumbhaka pranayamas are a type of breathing exercise that uses intermittent breath holding following inhaling or exhaling. The pause of breath holding is shorter than the inhaling or exhaling period. 

6.Kapalabhati
Translation:  
Kapalabhati consists of alternating short, explosive exhales and slightly longer, passive inhales. Exhales are generated by powerful contractions of the lower belly (between the pubis and navel), which push air out of the lungs.


The power of our own breath to heal and transform on a physical, emotional and spiritual level, has been known (and practised) by yogis and shamans since ancient times. By consciously working with our own breathing patterns, we can tap into the ability to reset our nervous system and uncover and release all sorts of tension and blocks in our body and in our lives.


No previous experience needed.