Planting Seeds with Music and Songs?: Practicing Mindfulness with Children Author: Thich Nhat Hanh Chan Chau Nghiem Wietske Vriezen | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C2CJ0NM | Format: EPUB
Planting Seeds with Music and Songs?: Practicing Mindfulness with Children Description
Planting Seeds with Music and Songs is an audio-enhanced eBook. Recorded audio music and song lyrics from the book are included with this new digital edition.
Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community's collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh's over 30 years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book covers a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do with their children or students. The activities are designed to help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, touch our interconnection with nature, and improve communication.
Planting Seeds offers insight, concrete activities, and curricula that parents and educators can apply in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting to children. The key practices presented and adapted for children include: mindful breathing, walking and eating meditation, inviting a bell to sound, pebble meditation, the Two Promises, Touching the Earth and Deep Relaxation, and how to deal with conflict and strong emotions. Also includes a chapter on dealing effectively with conflict in the classroom or difficult group dynamics, based on a conference with Thich Nhat Hanh, teachers and students.
Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this book helpful. It is full of wisdom on how to simply be with children and nourish their compassion for themselves and others.
Beautiful, color illustrations by Wietske Vriezen illustrator of Mindful Movements–Ten Exercise for Well Being, ISBN: 978-1-888375-79-4.
- File Size: 113819 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Parallax Press (March 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C2CJ0NM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,900 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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This book is a beautiful, practical, and extremely helpful book that anyone interested in introducing children to mindfulness and related practices will greatly appreciate. It was written by the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk and teacher, and author of many well-known books, including Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. The book evolved out of his work with children at Plum Village Community, a Buddhist center in Southern France that he co-founded. The book encompasses the work of himself and many of his colleagues at Plum Village, including nuns and monks in-residence, as well as educators and parents that have attended retreats at the center focused on children.
Written for both parents and educators, each chapter of Planting Seeds begins with an overview of a topic, including mindful breathing, meditation, compassion, nature, suffering, healing, age, and death. After the overview, each chapter includes stories, sample activities, and guided meditations that adults can use to explore these themes with children. Many chapters include personal stories from educators and parents that work at Plum Village, or that attended retreats there and then strove to integrate what they learned in their work. They describe their personal experiences - including challenges - introducing children to these activities, in both home and school environments.
Although the themes are all grounded in Buddhism, they are introduced in a way that is non-religious, and so could be used to introduce children of any background to mindfulness.
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