Walking Meditation
Mini-meditations act as speed bumps throughout the day. They are fun for kids, yet have a built-in mechanism to slow children down and help them grow a peaceful place inside. New mini-meditations added monthly!
Ages 2-teen
Here's an all time favorite moving meditation for everyone, and it's especially helpful for really antsy, even ADHD, kids.
Go for a walk around the block, through the park, or on a nature trail. Agree ahead of time that there will be a five-minute walking meditation during your outing. If you make it a habit every time you go for a walk, everyone comes to look forward to it, because it really is a very pleasant meditation, once you get used to s l o w i n g d o w n. Have one of the children ‘be' the starting gong, vocally mimicking the long, reverberating sound of a gong. Everyone becomes quiet, walking very slowly, paying attention not to the breath, but to the sensation of walking; feeling first one foot lift off the ground, swing through the air, press down onto the earth, then the other, again and again. Have someone sound the ending ‘gong' and go back to your normal pace.
Sounds so simple, yet the results are profound!
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