Children and meditation - I am interested in the development of ideas and practices involving stillness, mindfulness and meditation with, by and for children. I am confident that strong improvement for our educational systems would be adding this path of development.
I have an alert in Google Alerts on the subject of "children meditation". It provides me with a weekly report of what Google has found on that subject.
Here are the Alert results reports. These results are as they came from Google and may not really pertain to the topic as I view it. This web page is merely a repository of possible links and information.
Alert #0 April 16, 2012
News delivered to me 4/16/12
10 new results for children meditation
Transform Yourself: JVB Preksha Meditation Center Conducts 12th Annual Family ...
Indo American News
The retreat had concurrent special kids programs, where they focused on learning Yoga, Pranayam, and other creative activities. Some of the highlights of the children were interactive sessions on Preksha Meditation and How technology will transform our ...
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Christian Meditation Group Meets Thursdays on Beach
Patch.com
The beach at Second Street provides the setting for a new Christian meditation group that meets on Thursday mornings in Ocean City. A new spiritual group, SonRise Circle Christian Meditation, meets 9 am Thursday on the beach at Second Street.
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A Simple Exercise Increases Focus and Reduces Stress in Adults and Children
Wire Service Canada (press release)
Promising scientific reports are motivating parents, educators, and child-care professionals to learn about meditation. They are asking, “How do I meditate? What technique is best? Is meditation safe? How do I teach children?
Donovan Q&A: Catching Up With a Folk Rock Superman
Billboard
The meditation concert he referred to was held in 2009 for the David Lynch Foundation that funds the teaching of Transcendental Meditation for school-age children. Donovan, who turns 65 in May, has been an avid supporter of the Lynch Foundation, ...
Alternative Therapies Aren't Used as Substitutes for Asthma Meds: Study
U.S. News & World Report
Eighteen percent of the parents said they had turned to some form of complementary or alternative medicine for their children. The researchers specifically asked about the use of herbs, teas, dietary changes, breathing exercises, meditation, prayer, ...
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Anti-stress sessions set for kids 8-13
Telegraph Neighbors
According to Ram Chelakara, program director and state coordinator for New Hampshire, the Art of Living has been active in Nashua for the past three years, offering stress-elimination programs for adults including breathing techniques, meditation and ...
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Buddhist association connects visitors with Burmese culture
Washington Post
“For my kids, I try to keep in touch with their Burmese dress and their Burmese food,” she said. After the most recent Sunday meditation session, parents and other visitors lined up in the temple parking lot for a Thingyan dance rehearsal.
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Sunday Spotlight: Shangri La Botanical Gardens
Sulphur Southwest Daily News
My favorite places in the gardens were the Pond of the Blue Moon with a meditation gazebo in the center and the Children's Garden with a Sensory Garden to smell, feel and taste the plants. A short way from the wide garden paths was the Heronry.
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What's happening today in the north valley
Enterprise-Record
Curtains 7:30 pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday; Saturday and Sunday matinee 2 pm Adult general $20, child $12. Tickets available online at chicotheatercompany.com 166 Eaten Road. 894-3282. Dance Church: Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St. 10 am ...
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Health Calendar: Week of Thursday, April 12, 2012
Los Angeles Daily News
The 5K and 10K runs begin 7:30 pmam Sunday; children's one-mile run, 9:30 am Registration fee, $35 for 5K and 10K; $15 for children's race. 805-587-6128. www.GatorRun.org Meditation as Medicine: A Yogic Meditation Foundation six-week workshop, ...
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Guided Meditation for Children at Bedtime « Beyond Mom
Guided Meditation for Children at Bedtime. By jennydecki, on April 13th, 2012. I discovered something magical a couple nights ago. It was time for yet another ...
beyondmom.com/.../guided-meditation-for-children-at-bedtim...
Alert #1 April 23, 2012
News
10 new results for children meditation
America's Sex Trafficking Victims and Transcendental Meditation
Huffington Post
Teaching our children that there are good people in the world is essential to their recovery from horrific childhoods and requires their ability to realize they are not responsible for their own victimization. Through Transcendental Meditation children ...
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Physicians are healing themselves through meditation
Montreal Gazette
... at the Montreal Children's Hospital was finding himself angry or defensive in heated moments with parents. A calm doctor is a better doctor. He knew he could do better as a physician. So he decided - reluctantly - to try mindfulness meditation.
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Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit: Meditating with Dinosaurs... Really?
Huffington Post (blog)
I can still recall my first attempts at resurrecting a meditation practice after having children. I realized, even then, that I'd need to become less rigid in my ways -- that instead of waiting until I could find some Zen-like conditions of purity and ...
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Kids Yoga classes ( Age 6 to 14)
Omaha World-Herald
Kids Yoga is a fun, the kids will learn many simple yoga postures breathing & relaxation techniques, concentration exercises, meditation, healthy food styles. Mental Health Self-Help aftercare for all types of mental health issues.
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Ever mindful: Buddhist monastics practice simple life of meditation in Mississippi
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The final meditation of the day is called noble silence. Though not easily observed by visiting children or chatty teenagers, the monks and nuns don't speak from about 9 pm, after sitting meditation, until after the breakfast dishes are washed the next ...
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Asheville-area Religion Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times
TAIZE SERVICE: 8 pm every third Sunday, Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Music, prayers and meditation. 254-1086. AWANA CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: 6 pm Sundays, Canton First Baptist Church, 74 Academy St. Games, lessons, crafts, music.
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LubbockOnline.com
DivorceCare Recovery — 7 pm LakeRidge United Methodist Church, 4701 82nd St. Call to register for free child care. 794-4015, ext. 556. Zumba — 8:30 am Studio 57, 5701 Slide Road, Unit C. All ages. $5 per class. 785-5701. Meditation Classes — 7-8:30 ...
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Family, friends honor man who died in October by recreating Eagle Scout project
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
To honor their son's memory, Bethesda residents Nancy and Jim Mitchell recreated Saturday a meditation garden their son installed for his Eagle Scout project in 2001. The garden at the National Center for Children and Families had fallen into disrepair ...
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Medscape
This type of yoga program concentrates on breathing exercises and deep relaxation, meditation, and physical postures designed to develop strength and flexibility. "Although not causal due to small, uneven sample size, this preliminary study suggests ...
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Physical exercise, meditation can change brains for the better
News-Medical.net
Practices like physical exercise, certain forms of psychological counseling and meditation can all change brains for the better, and these changes can be measured with the tools of modern neuroscience, according to a review article now online at Nature ...
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5 new results for children meditation
A simple breath awareness meditation helps kids focus and calm ...
A simple breath awareness meditation helps kids focus and calm down. Research confirms that breath awareness meditation can reduce stress, increase focus, ...
www.prlog.org/11845123-simple-breath-awareness-meditatio...
Mindfulness, Children and Thich Nhat Hanh | Teaching Children ...
article on thich nhat hanh and teaching children mindfulness.
www.teachchildrenmeditation.com/mindfulness-children-and-t...
Children of the Night Transcendental Meditation
Through Transcendental Meditation children victimized by prostitution begin to feel their inner strength and shed bad memories. By reaching inside their inner ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../children-of-the-night-transcenden...
Children and Meditating | Early and Medieval Buddhism
Children and Meditating. I found David's visit to class today very interesting, but was really intrigued by the fact that he teaches first graders to meditate.
https://blogs.emory.edu/rel305/2012/.../children-and-meditatin...
911experiments - Teaching Meditation Techniques to Your Children
Meditation techniques provide benefits for children. It allows these phones tap into a good inner peace, enhances concentration, builds self-confidence,.
911experiments.org/.../teaching-meditation-techniques-childre...
Alert #2 April 30, 2012
News
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Meditation In Action: Learning To Take A Sacred Pause
Huffington Post (blog)
In similar fashion, are we not prematurely drugging a nation of young children with drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall that have the potential of adversely affecting their developing brains? Instead, if we could be teach alternative healthy lifestyles ...
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'Monsieur Lazhar': A meditation on the teacher-student relationship
Philadelphia Inquirer
Clearly there's a disconnect between the new teacher and the class he inherits midterm, following the terrible death of the children's beloved instructor. But in Monsieur Lazhar, the beautifully observed French Canadian Academy Award nominee for best ...
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Health Tip: Spin off calories, stress
Daily News Transcript (blog)
However, crashes remain the leading cause of unintentional injury death for children. May is Celiac Awareness Month, Better Hearing Month, Meditation Month, Mental Health Month and Motorcycle Safety Month. A good group cycling class can burn more than ...
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SF kids see 'Hogwarts' in church to be school
San Francisco Chronicle
But Harry Potter's alma mater probably never had the custom mahogany finishes, new chef's kitchen, master bedroom with marble Roman bath and tower meditation room highlighted in the real estate listing for the building at 601 Dolores St., ...
Tim Ryan, steel-town congressman, would like you to meditate; start with a raisin
Plain Dealer
d) "By training our children in methods for returning to the natural focus we find in the present, we teach them how to help their conscious mind override their unconscious mind." You might guess the Dali Lama or, perhaps, Dennis Kucinich.
Headache-Plagued Kids Often Opt for Mind-Body Therapies
LiveScience.com
The most common alternative therapies used by kids with frequent headaches, migraines and epilepsy were mind-body techniques, such as meditation and deep breathing, the study found. It's not clear why children with these conditions seek complementary ...
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Bullying, child abuse hasten aging in kids
Fox News
Children exposed to multiple instances of violence age faster on a cellular level than children without violent experiences, a new study finds. Although childhood stress has long been linked with later disease risk and health problems, the study is the ...
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Thailand's young nuns challenge convention
Reuters
The girls wake before sunrise, and finish their day with evening meditation at 6 pm The strict schedule is an impressive undertaking for the children but they take it in their stride, displaying a discipline beyond their years.
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#Meditation Month #Book for Kids @skyyogastudio .com | Naperville ...
A GREAT BOOK TO HELP KIDS GET INTO NATIONAL MEDITATION MONTH! Award-Winning Children's Book "Maybe (A Little Zen for Little Ones)" Makes Zen.
skyyogastudio.com/.../meditation-month-book-for-kids-skyyo...
Alert #3 May 7, 2012
News
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Children find meditation a blissful experience
Waikato Times
Inside though, not a sound – the children are meditating. The class of 14 six-year-olds is sitting in a close circle on the carpet with teacher Judy Craven the centrepiece on a chair. The kids sit cross-legged – hands rest either on knees with thumb ...
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Pupils meditating and doing philosophy
Stuff.co.nz
That's if they are not busy meditating, of course. Philosophy and meditation are on the timetable at two Wellington schools, which have introduced the unorthodox subjects to engage children and help them to use their minds in different ways.
Waikato Times
Stuff.co.nz
Buddhism And Meditation: Why Most Buddhists In The World Don't Meditate
Huffington Post
It may be a surprise to many Americans, and even to American Buddhists, to hear that the vast majority of the world's Buddhists do not meditate. But it is true. Among the 250 million or so Buddhists alive today, only a tiny fraction have a regular ...
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Children's Meditation Course for ages 8-15 June 9
Northfield.org
Then please join in on June 9 for a day of meditation, recreational activities, and lunch at St. Olaf College! This is the third year this course has been offered here in Northfield. Some of the children have remarked: "I never knew I could feel so ...
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Meditation Nation: Why Many Stressed Out Americans Are Choosing a Drug-Free Fix
Sacramento Bee
Featured in The New York Times, media-trained meditation expert and author of Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House, May 1, 2012), Sarah McLean, has taught thousands of people to meditate. From celebrities to everyday ...
Jackson Street School joins national move using meditation, mindfulness
GazetteNET
When Goldsmith, who has two children in the Northampton schools, heard about Agna's weekly meditation, she felt Jackson Street would be a perfect place to launch a local school mindfulness program. "This is happening all over, so I thought, ...
GazetteNET
Awakening Your Child's Confidence – Week 1 Results
Windsor Star (blog)
AYCC uses meditation, journal-writing, question & answer pages, and creative expression activities to lead parents and children down a path of calm confidence. Heather invited me to take the course for two reasons: 1) Because she wanted me to ...
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Can We Remove Thoughts From the Mind?
Huffington Post
There are certain types of meditations where you simply sit and notice that you are "here" and your mind is out "there." There is a clear distance between you and the mind. Once there is a distance, whatever the mind says, it has no impact on you.
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Meditation for Keeping Up with Our Children
Kathryn Livingston shares a meditation perfect for mothers (and fathers!). Try out the Meditation for Keeping Up With Our Children today!
www.spiritvoyage.com/.../meditation-for-keeping-up-with-our...
Meditation with Children Workshop in United States - YouTube
Jeannie Battagin, author of A Child's Way, (a book on her experience of teaching meditation ...
Alert #4 May 14, 2012
News
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Sleepy Stream: Sleepy Time Meditation for Children
New Parent
For older children the following is a sleep and relaxation meditation. It will help them become aware of their bodies as you help them put each part of their body to sleep. Have your child lie down to make them as comfortable as possible.
Azawhistle Kids App Inspires Pre-Schoolers to Enjoy Cleaning their Rooms
Houston Chronicle
The lifestyle brand's first iOS app teaches kids the art of cleaning up their rooms. It is available for purchase in the iTunes store June 2012. Azawhistle Kids uses yoga, meditation and simple acts of cleanliness to teach and inspire children to be ...
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Jail inmates take meditation lessons
Times of India
Also a special meditation for 250 children of Snehalaya was organized. The meditation camp was held for children aged between 7 to 18. Free meditation camps were also conducted at various Art of Living centres, residential localities, corporate houses, ...
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Moving Meditation' Provides 3-Pronged Approach to Well-Being
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, MA, May 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In her new book, "Moving Meditation" ( www.thegoodwithin.com ), Mary Jo Ricketson shares three aspects of everyone's being that can be honed to produce a better quality of life.
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This Sunday, a Gift to Mothers Around the World
Huffington Post (blog)
In past years, I have bought her yoga and meditation DVDs for relaxation, cutting boards to help with cooking, and a GPS so she doesn't get lost when driving on vacation. As a mother myself, I know that often simple tools can be a great help in our ...
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LubbockOnline.com
DivorceCare Recovery — 6:30-8:15 pm LakeRidge United Methodist Church, 4701 82nd St. Call to register for free child care. 794-4015, ext. 556. Meditations for Relaxation — 7-8 pm J&B Coffee Upstairs Backroom, 26th Street and Boston Avenue.
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Arizona Daily Sun
Penni Honey will speak on "Strength: It's Not What You're Thinking; or Is It?" Meditation andchildren's program included. Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation: Worship Associates Susan Wall and Cassie Dakan will speak on "Feminism, the Feminine ...
Maurice Sendak Scared Children Because He Loved Them
The Atlantic
His final interview on NPR's Fresh Air, an uncompromising meditation on his own mortality, made listeners weep. In January, he drew belly laughs sniffing markers with Stephen Colbert. I had the tremendous pleasure of interviewing Sendak in 2011.
Huffington Post (blog)
People practice meditation for all sorts of reasons: to feel calm, to experience a bit more clarity, to cut through personal confusion, to deal with physical, emotional, or mental pain. These are all legitimate reasons, and certain practices, ...
A spiritual approach to concentration in children
Victoria Times Colonist (blog)
Earlier this year the Vancouver Sun published an article regarding Mindfulness training for children. The speaker, Richard Davidson, spoke of the health benefits ofmeditation and mindfulness training for children, such as stress relief, improved sleep ...
Alert #5 May 21, 2012
Meditating Moms: A Silent Revolution
Huffington Post (blog)
Rather than taking time out for a coffee, many moms are squeezing in a few minutes of meditation while the baby is napping or before heading home from work. Meditation is especially important for mothers because kids are sensitive to their mothers' ...
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Music, meditation, and movement Secaucus hosts NJ celebration of World Falun ...
The Hudson Reporter
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the ancient Chinese Buddhist tradition, which consists of meditation and Tai Chi-like exercises. Adults and children wearing blue and yellow t-shirts with Falun Dafa slogans gathered during a sunny day on the ...
Children's Dance Troupe From Gujarat Tours the US
New York Times (blog)
Over the course of a year, the children attended daily practices, which included meditation and team-building activities, and at one point moved into Manav Sadhna quarters to focus on the project. Darpana, a local dance school, and Mr. Vaghela, now 24, ...
A meditation on missing role models
Winnipeg Free Press
In a larger sense, the works respond to Thomas's 2002 curatorial project, Where Are the Children: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools, which examined the forced separation of indigenous parents and children and the ways these broken family bonds ...
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St. Jude's Hosts an Open House on Sunday
Patch.com
Come check out what all the construction was about and enjoy the festivities, and places to ponder and meditate later. By Anne Ernst The decorative tiles were made by church members and their children to commemorate the church's 50th anniversary.
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Awakening Your Child's Confidence - Week Two - Positive Thinking
Windsor Star (blog)
Week two's theme of Heather Chauvin's meditation course Awakening Your Child's Confidence is Positive Thinking. I like to think that I'm generally an optimistic person. I do my best to find the positive in daily life, and I believe I impart this ...
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Erie neighborhood center meets many needs
GoErie.com
Buddhists of the Erie Karma Thegsum Ch?ing Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center meditate regularly at the Neighborhood Partnership Center on E. 10th Street in Erie, but on Sundays, they share the building with the New Life and Spirit Revival Center.
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Faith notes: Jewish War Veterans to attend special Memorial Day Service
The News-Press
Eagles Nest Church-Services Adult Sunday school, 9:30 am Sunday service and children's church, 10:30 am, 6 pm Mid-week service Thursday, 7 pm Eagles Nest Church, 14561 Palm Beach Blvd. No. 54, Fort Myers, 693-1354. • Meditation & Sunday Prayers for ...
Salisbury Post
SALISBURY — Fitness instructors Sacha Roberts and Jacqui Shive have launched a business offering yoga, meditation and positive thinking workshops for adults and children. The Playful Elephant holds two-hour workshops once a month and will travel to ...
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Wired News
By Dak Since I was a child, I have suffered from high anxiety. When I was growing up, it was just referred to as being shy. As an adult, I learned that what I have is not something you always grow out of. In fact, as an adult, it can get worse if you ...
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Grains&More: meditation for children
Recently I saw this article online, Why Our Children Should Be Taught To Meditate In School. This falls into the 'why didn't I think of that' category. If I had known ...
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Interview with Marneta - founder of Relax Kids
Over that time I saw a change in children's behaviour and the inability to sit still and concentrate. Having practised meditation with my mother from a child, ...
www.relaxkids.com/tips/entry/Interview_with.../354
Alert #6 May 28, 2012
News
6 new results for children meditation
IBNLive.com
BANGALORE: Meditation, motor skills, ethics, social skills, self-esteem, self-reliance, stage exposure, live shows. Good habits, reasoning skills, general knowledge, reading, writing and counting. Not surprisingly, if you're just wondering why these ...
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Modern life takes toll on kids as parents search for answers
Herald Sun
PARENTS are turning to yoga, meditation and counselling to help their children cope with the demands of modern family life. But some experts say they would be better off attending parenting classes and letting kids spend more time in free play.
Shh . . . These year 8 students and teacher are meditating in class
Auckland stuff.co.nz
"It sits really well with children and seems to be natural to them," he says. "It's a tradition that comes from Benedictine monk John Main who met a Hindu swami who taught him the art of meditation." Father Murphy started teaching meditation in schools ...
Victoria Times Colonist
Contact 250-383-9822; meditation victoria.org; MEC-Victoria@telus.net Free adult ESL classes with free childcare at Speakwell ESL English Conversation Program. Wednesdays, 7-8: 30 pm at Gordon Head Lawn Bowling Bldg. (next to Gordon Head Rec Centre).
Children Do Matter, and the Book is Free
Catholic Culture
Instead, it is a very readable extended meditation on the importance of treasuring children and forming them well. Rooted in Christian reflection and the wonderful example of his own parents, Why Children Matter briefly touches on the childlike spirit, ...
Local churches plan VBS, summer camps
Online Athens
During Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens' Peace Camp, children ages 6-12 will engage in peacemaking skills through cooperative games and projects, outdoor exploration, labyrinths, mandalas, meditation and yoga exercises, role-playing and ...