This is a quick guided imagery activity you can read to your child to help her engage her imagination in helping her relax. Frosty's Happy Paintbrush Find a comfortable position. Talk to your body...
Frosty’s Happy Paintbrush
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Brain Train
Helping kids with executive functioning challenges can take one part instruction, one part practice, one part mindfulness and one part patience. For the instruction part, I have created fun visual aids to support kids with their learning and understanding of how...
Book of Dreams: Visualizing my day, month or year
Book of Dreams There's this song called Book of Dreams by the band Milkshake that animates my imagination each time I listen. In fact, it's been a stable in my daughters' lives while they have been growing up so much so that even the week before Christmas on a trip...
Relaxing With Otters
Relaxing With Otters As I was walking down the hallway in my school today, I encountered the MOST precious sight. The kindergarten class had just finished art and was parading their otter artwork back to class. Apparently they had watched the YouTube video on the...
Labyrinth: A Journey into Relaxation
Walking the Path This past summer I had the opportunity to visit the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth to walk it for the third time. Giant in size, it is a walk of heart. In fact, the first time I set foot on it, I was unexplainably moved to tears. Labyrinths have long...
Forest of Calm
It's back to school time and the perfect time to practice relaxation techniques with your kids! Recently, the first graders and I created a "Forest of Calm" through the Vrksasana yoga pose, or "tree pose." All of the kids gathered together to assume the tree poses...
Relaxation Collage
Create a relaxation collage with your child. I like to explain that just looking at serene, tranquil pictures can calm our bodies and minds. There's even research out there that shows that just by looking upon tranquil scenes or even other people relaxing and...
Re-Write the “Monster Under the Bed” Story
The Monster Under Your Bed is Just a Story In Your Head by Lisa Wimberger Loving this new book by Lisa Wimberger, founder of the Neurosculpting Institute, (www.neurosculptinginstitute.com). It's perfect for introducing kids to neuroliteracy, the study of brain...
My Calm Colors Palette
Did you know that by simply gazing upon a calming color, it can produce a calming effect on the body and mind? When I was in Undergraduate school I worked in an engineering library that was colorscaped, as they called it, with special colors in mind to support the...
iPad Apps for Worries
Recently one of my students was struggling with bad dreams. His mom asked me to support him at school in helping him learn skills to deal with his worries. In addition to teaching him several deep breathing techniques and using play therapy to "play out" and talk...
