Enter for a chance to win either a free week of guided meditation lessons at Meditation Bar, which will celebrate their first anniversary in Austin at the end of this year, OR a Mindful Family workshop package starting October 1!
The benefits of regular meditation for adults have been well-documented: stress relief, mental focus, balance, and overall contentment. How about for children? Kids experience stress, anxiety, and fear too, and building a meditation habit early in life could help them cope into their adult years.
At Meditation Bar, the highly-educated staff hosts classes every day of the week to help Austinites learn how to slow down and be present and let go of stress. You may have heard one of the owners, Lauren Foreman, on the Austin Statesman podcast (Statesman Shots) earlier this year, teaching the co-hosts how to use mindfulness and relaxation practices to overcome the frustration of traffic on MoPac.
This weekend, Meditation Bar is beginning a 4-week mindfulness series with instructor JoAnn Carreon Reyes. JoAnn has over 25 years of public school teaching experience in Austin schools and is a certified yoga teacher and Mindful Schools educator trainer.
In the 4-week mindfulness series starting October 1, JoAnn will introduce child-friendly mindfulness practices to children and their families that they can practice together at home. Practices will include games, stories, and everyday mindful awareness practices that helps to reduce stress and support connection in today’s often hectic households.
“I define mindfulness as paying attention to your life, here and now, with kindness and curiosity,” JoAnn says. “One of the primary ironies of modern education is that we ask students to ‘pay attention’ dozens of times a day, yet we never teach them how. The practice of mindfulness teaches students how to pay attention, and this way of paying attention enhances both academic and social-emotional learning.”
The full series will take place on Saturdays from Oct 1-Oct 22 1:15 PM-2:00 PM.
Pricing for this 4-week series:
$135 per child, including up to 2 caregivers
Children must be in grades Kindergarten to 2nd grade.
For more information, please visit the Meditation Bar website.
Enter to Win
Fill out the entry form below for your chance to win one of these prizes:
- One 1-week unlimited pass and one pass (adult and child, 4 weeks). Note, specialty workshops, series and sound classes are not included.
- One 4-week mindful family workshop package, including one child and up to 2 caregivers.
One entry per person, please. The winners will be contacted on Friday, September 30, 2016.
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