About Meditation for the Imagination™
Meditation for the Imagination™ is a carefully designed self-awareness and meditation program for kids ages seven to seventeen, families and individuals. Meditation for the Imagination™ classes are innovative and unique. Drawing from their combined experience of curriculum development, education, meditation, health and natural healing arts Andrea Grace and Susan Lieberman are pioneers in a research-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates self-esteem, self-awareness, and stress reduction.
How can Meditation for the Imagination™ Help?
Our Meditation for the Imagination™ curriculum is based on what we call the Five Pillars of Healing; breath, touch, mind, movement and nutrition. The medical community has been using self-awareness through mindfulness practices and meditation for over thirty years because research shows that meditation and mindfulness changes brain chemistry and makes neural connections that foster a sense of equanimity and well being. Our program incorporates time-honored healing arts such as Qigong and Reiki as well as Nutrition.
- Self-awareness
- Stress reduction and increased calm
- Easier to focus at school or in sports
- Improves skills and performance: athletic and academic
- Skillful ways to process emotions
- Better relationships with others including your parents, siblings, friends and classmates.
- Natural conflict resolution skills
- Increased self esteem
What Happens in a Meditation for the Imagination™ Class?
In a Meditation for the Imagination class, we do things like catch thoughts with a butterfly net to practice thought awareness, follow the sound of a bell for presence, or practice belly breathing, or gentle touch on specific acupressure points to help us relax and find calm.
We also do exercises like the "Blow out" to release anger and other heavy-hitter emotions, or we "give ourselves a buzz" to energize. A 45-minute Meditation for the Imagination™ class includes sound, breathing, a fun activity, a 5 to-10-minute meditation, a discussion, and may include an art or writing project. The art or writing project is important because it allows the child or teen to process what was experienced during the meditation and gives a visual reference to remind them of what they experienced.
Each week, learn a new meditation, while reinforcing emotional and sensory awareness, presence through the five senses, compassion and empathy for the self and others.
We also do exercises like the "Blow out" to release anger and other heavy-hitter emotions, or we "give ourselves a buzz" to energize. A 45-minute Meditation for the Imagination™ class includes sound, breathing, a fun activity, a 5 to-10-minute meditation, a discussion, and may include an art or writing project. The art or writing project is important because it allows the child or teen to process what was experienced during the meditation and gives a visual reference to remind them of what they experienced.
Each week, learn a new meditation, while reinforcing emotional and sensory awareness, presence through the five senses, compassion and empathy for the self and others.
Who Teaches the Meditation for the Imagination™ Classes?
Andrea Grace
Founder Andrea Grace is the co-owner of the Elila Center for Natural Healing in Berkeley Heights, NJ. She is a Reiki Master, Meditation Facilitator (for all ages), a Certified Hypnotist specializing in Past Life Regression. Andrea is a student and practitioner of eastern natural healing arts (Reiki, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Medical Qi Gong), and a graduate of Byron Katie's 9-day School for The Work. Curious to Learn more? website: www.andreagrace.com email: info@andreagrace.com |