246: Can Kids Learn Mindfulness?
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Children around the world are suffering from learning, development, and behavioral problems at record rates. Mindfulness can be taught as a secular way to train the mind and body to assist our youth.
Mind-body wellness is typically something we explore as adults, but it's never too early to start, and the sooner and the better. Our guest this week is an expert on teaching mindfulness to young people, and for any parent, educator, or soon-to-be caregiver, this is a must-listen.
Listen & Learn:
- How mindfulness can be described as a quality of intention, balance and compassion as we navigate through life
- Or as a stance of attention where we not where our intention and state-of-mind is in real time
- Why social and emotional learning in schools can be a great help in working through some of the bigger problems with developing children
- How secular mindful practices can be quickly and openly adopted in school systems
- Why it's important to take a few deliberate breaths before you leave the house, say goodbye, start or end your day
- How to have kids identify the eye color of friends, teachers, and you so that it acts as a forcing function for concentration
ABOUT OUR GUEST
She was a co-investigator in a multi-year, multi-site research study at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center/Semel Institute on the impact of mindfulness in education. She has spoken at the Mind & Life Institute; the University of California at Los Angeles; the University of Massachusetts; the University of Kansas; Columbia University; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; San Diego Children's Hospital; the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California; the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts; the National University of Singapore; Mahidol University, in Bangkok; Casa Tibet, in Mexico, and many other prestigious institutes in the United States and abroad.
Her work has been covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, various yoga journals, and CBS Morning News.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the biggest changes coming to the yoga community in the next three to five years is regulation. |
| 0:05.0 | It's going to start on a statewide level and may eventually even roll out to a nationwide level and it's happening all over the world in North America, in India, in China, here where I live in Spain, it's coming. |
| 0:16.0 | Everyone's talking about it, many, many different governments are working on it, and here's why. |
| 0:20.0 | There are hundreds of thousands of yoga teachers teaching millions and tens of millions |
| 0:25.4 | of students all over the world and the quality and the caliber of yoga teachers is all |
| 0:30.1 | across the board. The majority of people have simply paid an organization to |
| 0:34.0 | sell them a quote unquote certificate but they're not actually qualified to do much at |
| 0:37.9 | all they don't know basic anatomy and physiology they certainly can't help people |
| 0:41.9 | with the issues they're dealing with whether it's back pain or knee pain or stress or weight problems. |
| 0:48.0 | They're putting themselves out there as mind-body fitness providers, but they just don't really have a good education. |
| 0:53.7 | The same thing happened with massage therapy with chiropractic care with naturopathy and with osteopathy |
| 0:59.5 | and when regulation came in what happened is these industries all got better they all improved and |
| 1:05.2 | there also became a lot more opportunities for those providers private money |
| 1:10.1 | public money corporate health insurance all of these things will be coming to the |
| 1:14.5 | yoga community. So I am super excited about regulation and here at the yoga teachers |
| 1:18.9 | college we are preparing for it by creating one of the most rigorous comprehensive and lifelong |
| 1:24.8 | supporting programs in existence. We have our new Yoga Teachers College program |
| 1:29.7 | which launched last year. We have an amazing group of students from all over the world. |
| 1:34.6 | Our youngest participant is 19. Our oldest is in her 70s and literally from all |
| 1:40.9 | different walks of life. Some people are going to open studios, |
| 1:43.9 | some people are creating retreat businesses |
| 1:46.3 | and everything in between. |
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