Mindfulness, an umbrella term for a range of practices, is about observing your emotions and state of mind, without judgment. This can be done during sitting meditation, walking meditation, activities ...

Qualitative evidence touting the benefits of mindfulness in the classroom—like Mindful Schools’ encouraging survey results and uplifting anecdotes from participants—is easy to come by, and ...

Dahlberg credits Calm with much of her success teaching mindfulness in the classroom. Since their launch in 2012, Calm has become the number one app for meditation, relaxation and sleep, with 32 ...

As a certified children’s yoga teacher, I strive to introduce mindfulness techniques to children at a young age. In times of ...

In 2015, I participated in an eight-week mindfulness stress-reduction course based on Kabat-Zinn’s book Full Catastrophe Living. Each week, we learned a new mindfulness technique.

It’s 7:50 a.m. on a Friday in a fourth-grade classroom at Crockett Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. The students are quiet and focused, working on their “Zen Tangles,” a mindfulness-based art ...

There’s also the question of how mindfulness programs affect children who suffer from mental health disorders. (The students included in the review were all part of regular classroom populations.) ...

There's a quiet revolution happening in local classrooms. It starts with closed eyes, one long, deep breath, followed by another. Through practice, this movement can lead to a more open heart, a sense ...

So the mindfulness programs that are actually backed by scientific evidence, they tend to be pretty intensive. We're talking about an hour of instruction per week for eight to 12 weeks.