About Meditation for the Imagination
Meditation for the Imagination is a carefully designed emotional awareness and mindfulness meditation program for ages seven to seventeen. We also offer programs for Moms and Families. Meditation for the Imagination classes are innovative and unique drawing from their combined experience of curriculum development, education and meditation, Andrea and Paige are pioneers in research-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates better focus and concentration, self-awareness, and stress reduction.
How can Meditation for the Imagination Help?
Meditation for the Imagination teaches children to focus attention. The medical community has been using mindfulness and meditation for over thirty years because research shows that meditation and mindfulness changes brain chemistry and makes neural connections that foster a sense of equanimity and well being.
- Self-awareness
- Stress reduction and increased calm
- Easier to focus at school or in sports
- Improves skills and performance: athletic and academic
- Skillful ways to process emotions
- Better relationships with others including your parents, siblings, friends and classmates.
- Natural conflict resolution skills
- Increased self esteem
What Happens in a Meditation for the Imagination Class?
In a Meditation for the Imagination class, we catch thoughts with a butterfly net to practice thought awareness, follow thesound of a bell for presence, or practice belly breathing to help us relax and find calm.
We also do exercises like the "Blow out" to release anger and other heavy-hitter emotions, or we "give ourselves a buzz" to energize. A 45-minute Meditation for the Imagination™ class includes sound, breathing, a fun activity, a 5 to-10-minute meditation, a discussion, and may include an art or writing project. The art or writing project is important because it allows the child or teen to process what was experienced during the meditation and gives a visual reference to remind them of what they experienced.
Each week, learn a new meditation, while reinforcing emotional and sensory awareness, presence through the five senses, compassion and empathy for the self and others.
We also do exercises like the "Blow out" to release anger and other heavy-hitter emotions, or we "give ourselves a buzz" to energize. A 45-minute Meditation for the Imagination™ class includes sound, breathing, a fun activity, a 5 to-10-minute meditation, a discussion, and may include an art or writing project. The art or writing project is important because it allows the child or teen to process what was experienced during the meditation and gives a visual reference to remind them of what they experienced.
Each week, learn a new meditation, while reinforcing emotional and sensory awareness, presence through the five senses, compassion and empathy for the self and others.