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Yoga and Mindfulness Tools for Children: Grounding and Becoming Present
Get two yoga and mindfulness practices to share with the children in your life. Each exercise comes with matching coloring pages and worksheets to further enhance the experience and deepen reflection, and you can download these supporting materials for free. Don’t forget to try these out yourself as well, as we all could use some orienting and grounding no matter what our age!
Breath of Joy
A Yoga Practice for Children with ADHD
Sometimes children with ADHD just can't stop moving...Here's a quick and enjoyable strategy to help restore attention and focus.
Lizard Brain: How it impacts EVERY trauma treatment plan
...and what you can do about it
When a child with behavior challenges enters our office, we instantly go into teach mode to tell them how to change their behaviors. Why? Because we don't know what else to do.
But the child's behavior doesn't improve. It's not because they're willful, or bad, or even because they don't care. It's because the lasting impacts of trauma have the children in your practice stuck in "lizard brain." In this short video, I explain why lizard brain impacts every trauma treatment plan you create...
Workshop: Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom
Practical applications from a PESI seminar
Teresa Sadowski has been a Speech Language Pathologist for 27 years. Join Teresa as she reviews the PESI seminar "Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Tools to improve self-regulation, learning and classroom climate" and discusses how the tools and strategies she learned can be applied to practice.
Escaping the Shame Trap
Brené Brown on Vulnerability as a Crucial Strength
Brown has taken the concepts of shame and vulnerability and turned them completely on their heads. In short, she subversively makes shame less shameful, a part of the ordinary human condition. So the question isn’t why shame, but what to do about it.
6 Benefits of Simple Chair Yoga
And how you can get started today.
This simple intervention can be used anytime in the session when the client feels anxious, tense, ungrounded, or in some pain, or as part of a goal of learning to connect with body sensations.
Inside/Outside Box
A powerful art-based play therapy technique
The Inside/Outside Box is a wonderful tool that elicits powerful emotions and helps tweens and teens begin to see their whole self, creating a launching pad for blossoming self-esteem and self-worth.
Free CE Seminar: CBT for Anxiety and OCD
Do you want to dramatically improve outcomes for your clients?
It starts by asking the right questions to get the right diagnosis. You can learn more and earn free CE online seminar.
Self-Compassion for Teens
A sensory activity worksheet
Self-compassion for teens reduces suffering and stress through mindful awareness, self-kindness, interconnectedness, as well as the willingness to take action to relieve suffering.
Melt the Grumpy
A Self-Regulation Activity
"Melt the Grumpy" is a somatic activity to help shift your emotional state with physical movement, breathing and imagery.