Mindfulness

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is simply… noticing what is happening right now.

Mindfulness is taking notice of how your body feels and what you see, smell and taste. Maybe you even feel emotions in your body, perhaps through a tightness somewhere, or a good sensation.

Mindfulness is also noticing what your mind is doing.

Try one of these activities to help you relax!

Breathing/Mindful exercises

Gonoodle flow - there are a number of videos on here which could be useful for relaxation, stress relief, positive thinking etc. Most videos seem to be 3 or 4 minutes

https://family.gonoodle.com/channels/flow

A 12 minute breathing exercise - suitable for all ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_qU7l-fcU

Relaxing background music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFZKK7K52uQ

5 minute body scan - with an animation which could be shown on the screen - suitable for all ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0S54yAgEg

Yoga exercises

Cosmic Kids is being used by a lot of parents at the moment to help their children with mindful activities - the Zen Den clips are all about mindfulness and there are also Yoga activities too.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

There are 5 different yoga videos here:

https://awakeandmindful.com/best-kids-yoga-videos-on-youtube/

This is a slightly more advanced one - for the Upper School.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdTzZuwGEOw