Kabat-Zinn’s voice is calm and reassuring as she guides listeners to present moment awareness. Children will love listening to these exercises which include “Sitting Still Like a Frog,” “The Spaghetti Test” and “The Secret of the Heart Chamber,” just to name a few. In the back of the book readers will find a CD with ten mindfulness exercises, narrated by Myla Kabat-Zinn. Interspersed within each of the ten chapters of this book are mindfulness exercises that adults and children can do together.

Snel shares techniques for observing the depth and rhythm of the breath in order to “bring friendly attention to how we are doing, right now.” This is followed by a discussion on learning to observe thoughts, feelings and sensations without allowing them to define who we are, and a chapter on breath in which Ms. The author states: “Mindfulness is nothing other than present-moment awareness, an open and friendly willingness to understand what is going on in and around you” ( Sitting Still Like a Frog, p. Sitting Still Like a Frog begins with an overview of what it means to be mindful. The breadth of her work is indeed impressive, as is her ability to distil the essentials of mindful-living into a book that is at once inviting, informative and practical for parents, teachers and kids. Snel’s commitment to combating stress in the lives of young people is inspiring. Just one hundred pages long– and compact enough to fit in a purse or small tote bag–the book offers an engaging introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents.Īs founder of the Academy for Mindful Teaching and director of Mindfulness Matters, a training program for school age children, Ms. She is a LifeForce Yoga Level I practitioner and author of the Youthful Yogis Blog.Įline Snel’s book, Sitting Still Like a Frog, is proof that good things come in small packages. Ellen teaches yoga to children and adults in Tucson, Arizona.

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