This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Jojo who won the giveaway. Thanks to everyone for participating in our four weeks of fabulous kids yoga gear giveaways.
Kids Yoga Gifts for the Holidays
Yeah, four weeks of four amazing kids yoga products for under your tree. We’ve had a blast sharing these kids yoga gear giveaways and thank everyone who has entered and shared. You are awesome! Imaginations is the last in our holiday giveaway series as our way to invite calm and peace into your life and the lives of those you love. Namaste.
Imaginations Invites Peace and Calm
I love child friendly guided visualizations and use them at the end of every kids/teen yoga class I teach as well as at bedtime to encourage a good night’s sleep with my own children. So when Carolyn Clarke contacted me and told me about her new book Imaginations: Fun Relaxation and Meditation Stories for Kids I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
The 18 guided visualizations included in the book are fanciful and endearing. They help to set a tone of quiet relaxation, teaching children to clear their body and mind of anxiety, stress and worry. This is such an important skill in today’s hectic world and children’s over-programmed calendars.
What I like about Imaginations:
- includes 4 preparatory poses to help kids calm down before settling into savasana
- includes a Benefits of Relaxation & How to Use This Book section
- each visualization is written in approachable, child-friendly language
- LOVE the accompanying illustrations – they have a great retro look and give children something to focus their attention on in order to jump start their imagination session
Purchase a copy of Imaginations for $19.99. Find it on Amazon.
How to Enter the Giveaway
We are giving away one Imaginations: Fun Relaxation and Meditation Stories for Kids. Enjoy any of these ways to enter. Enter often and share the #kidsyoga love.
- Leave a comment sharing your fave child friendly guided visualization or meditation
- Like Imaginations: Fun Relaxation and Meditation Stories for Kids on Facebook – comment here to let me know you did
- Share this review on Facebook & include a @Yogainmyschool.com link – limit 1/day
- Tweet the #giveaway on Twitter with a @DonnaKFreeman link – limit 1/day
- Repin on Pinterest
Contest closes Saturday, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:00 pm MDT
Winner will be contacted via e-mail and their name will be posted. You’ll have 24 hours to claim your prize before another winner is chosen. Winner’s e-mail address will be shared with the author for administrative purposes only.
Disclaimer: I am in no way reimbursed for this review. Product was generously provided for the review. The opinions expressed here are completely my own.
I love to make up my own meditations or use ones from Starbright, by Maureen Garth. I liked on FB, shared the review/giveaway on my FB page, tweeted, and repinned on Pinterest.
I shared on facebook. I love Lori Lite’s work as well. I teach yoga in my daughters kindergarten and 3rd grade classes.
I use yoga in group therapy with school-age kids. One of the meditation activities I like is to start with guided meditation, encouraging kids to picture a favorite place, and focusing on the sounds, smells, colors, and how they feel there. Then, I give them time to draw a picture of the place they’ve just imagined, to help them remember it the next time they need to go there.
I liked the facebook page and will share on my page as well. So glad we have social media to help spread the words and wisdoms of yoga and meditation. I am a yoga teacher and volunteer in local elementary schools. I recently began working with a few kids who have anxiety “disorders”, and am really trying to incorporate lots of kid friendly visualization and meditation into our time together. It is so important that we teach kids how to calm themselves, and be strong, centered, and happy from the inside out. One of my favorite meditations (and for the kids) is our “rainbow” meditation. They envision a rainbow and then imagine themselves breathing in all of the colors and bringing all the colors into their heart. Each color represents a different quality (love, courage, integrity, etc). I place a small colored glass stone on their forehead while they are still, and when they “wake” up they see the stone and are all excited, and get to take the stone and all the positive energy of the rainbow with them when they go, as a tangible reminder of the practice.
One of my favorite visualizations I use with my kids is imagining they are floating high above the ground in a hot air balloon, and they imagine writing any worries or fears they might be having at the time onto a piece of paper. This paper gets tossed out of the balloon and floats far, far away and becomes so small that it can hardly be seen. This helps the stressors and burdens that kids often carry seem lighter and more managable when put into perspective.
I LOVE this idea. Great Christmas gift.
We at http://www.azawhistlekids.com LIKED Imaginations today.
we have a beautiful faerie mediation that my daughter absolutely loves – it involved looking out into the world through our third eye and seeing more beauty and love!
also liked Imaginations: Fun Relaxation and Meditation Stories for Kids on facebook
When practicing with a partner, they hold hands in extended childs pose with heads down and eyes closed, and they think of something or someone that made them feel loved recently. They feel that love deeply in their heart and let that amazing feeling fill them all up, then they let that feeling travel through their palms, and into their partner so that their partner may too feel their love, and so they may feel their partners love as well. (I got this off of another website I can’t think of right now, but having done it with my daughter, it’s a wonderful feeling.)