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One hectic morning, in a rush to hustle my three kids out the door, I found my 8-year-old son sitting cross-legged in the bathroom, eyes closed, his hands resting gently on his knees. He said he was ...

Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of young people ...

Morning meditation offers children a powerful tool to navigate busy schedules and demanding routines. Just a few minutes of quiet breathing can significantly improve focus, reduce stress, and enhance ...

Chelsea Silver has been meditating for more than four years. She’s kind of a meditation pro, and she’s only in the fourth grade. “After I normally do meditation, it helps me feel a lot calmer in ...

A passion for the value that meditation can bring into one’s life encouraged Lindsay Messina, a special-education teacher, to write a children’s book that serves as an introduction to meditation ...

Naomi Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion, is preparing for motherhood in a special way. In a recent exclusive interview for People, Osaka shared about her project of narrated meditations that ...

Meditation is a powerful tool to help us stay grounded as adults. But what about kids? What does it really look like for a child to meditate? Banish from your mind an image of that child sitting still ...

Nigel Robertson remembers how much he had going on one day in summer school last year: keeping his grades up, writing a paper and getting ready for a test. That was when Robertson found out about a ...

Meditation The researchers found that from 2012 to 2017, there was an increase in the use of yoga (from 3.1 to 8.4%) and meditation (from 0.6 to 5.4%) during the previous 12 months. In 2017, girls ...