guided meditation youtube for kids
Today in this post I want to explain more about the method of meditation training for children.
Recently, I talked about the importance of meditation for children and gave tips for training them. If you are still not sure what to start, I want to share some guided meditation YouTube for kids that you can use for training kids.
The Mindfulness Teacher.
As you can guess from the title, this YouTube channel teaches how to meditate for children. This video’s average length is only 5 minutes. The good thing about this channel is once the mindfulness is done, give some simple feedback that children can feel right after mindfulness such as having a headache or feeling hungry and how it happened. I believe this empathic statement makes children feel relieved and comfortable doing meditation.
mindfulness of body parts
As I mentioned in the previous post, trying to focus on breathing and body parts is an easy way to let kids to familiar with it. I want to recommend some content from this channel. Firstly I want to recommend try the X-ray video, it makes kids to think they are taking the X-ray from foot to head. By doing this activity, kids pay attention to each of their body parts’ movements and their feelings too.
mindfulness of breathing
Regarding breathing contents, it has various contents from basic breathing to different methods of breathing. I found a content called Rainbow Relaxation that kids can feel fun. Firstly, let the kid to imagine their hands are brushes for drawing color ring. With breathing, the kid can draw the ring and change the ring too. Although it is short content, really useful to kids get familiar with it. This channel also provided various breathing contents such as rectangle breathing, circle breathing and star breathing. Although it is a really short video under 1 minute. Once you turn on it, kids will be fascinated with this video with colorful and straightforward content. Once they practice several times, they naturally learn how to deep breath for mindfulness.
Timer
Lastly, this channel also has a countdown timer with relaxing pictures and background songs. I believe parents or teachers will use count for counting meditation duration of about under 1 minute. Some count with a clock’s secondhand or phone alarm. But as you know children are not comfortable with silence. Maybe for some kids, that moment is really boring to die. For the kids, I believe using some video countdown will solve this problem. As you glance, it is a really simple video with a timer, calm an image and relaxing music. Once you use this content for training kids’ meditation, it will helpful to kids more attention on meditation
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Length of video
under 5 minutes
Age for video
3~13 age who never tried mindfulness training.
New Horizon – Meditation & Sleep Stories
If your children get familiar with meditation and breathing, also they can focus for more than 5 minutes, this channel can be helpful for your children. Even the children can’t sleep at night time, this content can be useful.
mindfulness of thoughts
This content has ‘Guided meditation for children’ and ‘sleep meditation for Kids.’ Firstly guided meditation is more focused on breathing with imaginary narration with different themes. For example, the Garden theme makes children stay in the forest by doing this meditation, children will take off their anxiety and worry. At the end of the video about 1-2 minutes, the narrator reminds kids to return to real life by focusing on each of body part again. It helps kid not to doze during the meditation.
Another content is sleep meditation for children, which is similar to “Guidant Meditation for Children,” but has a much longer average running time of 30 minutes. There are also various content, including the Wizarding Kingdom and the Animal World(Sloth). Because it’s long content, the details of the explanation stimulate children’s imagination well. But since it focuses on sleep, it initially focuses on detailed narration, and after about 10 minutes, it repeats that the narration is a safe place to sleep right now. So, in the end, it’s a video that encourages children to fall asleep naturally.
This video stimulates kids’ imagination, if kids like to imagine, this video can help them to step into the meditation training and help with insomnia Since this video is quite long, before kids start the meditation, let them posture naturally such as lying down on the bed or sit in a chair.
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Length of video
10~30 minutes
Age for video
8~13 age who get familiar with mindfulness training
KIDZEN – Music For Kids
The last channel that I want to share is Music for Kids. Rather than meditating, I believe this channel can help children who are accustomed to stimuli, such as cell phones or electronic devices, to calm them down. Rather than asking children to listen with their eyes closed as if meditating, play this song when they are doing free activities, such as drawing or playing. For instance, below thumb image from Relaxing Music For Children – Be Calm and Focused (cute animals) | 3 Hours Extended Mix. As you can hear by clicking on the link, it’s a really peaceful song. I even listened to it when I was searching through the material for this post, and the calm song allowed me to fully immerse myself. Especially, I believe for the kids, this song will help them feel more emotionally stable. Listening to such a calm song many times makes them more accustomed to being still and quiet, and meditation training from then on is effective.
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Length of video
3~ 12 hours
Age for video
3~13 age who never tried mindfulness training.
In conclusion,
Today I share some useful youtube video that you can use for training children meditation. Hope this contents helpful for you!
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