Ep 894. Dragon’s New Year: a calming story and guided relaxation for kids
Be Calm on Ahway Island Bedtime Stories
Sheep Jam Productions
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Narrator: Female
Story Begins: 3:49
Dragon's New Year Excerpt:
On this day, at this moment, Dragon was doing something they did often: going for a walk through the forest. While Dragon could fly, and did fly many places, Dragon particularly loved the relaxed pace of walking. Walking made it easy to stop and observe a colony of ants working together on their ant hill, or pause by a patch of wildflowers and inhale their sweet perfume. Walking also increased the likelihood of running into forest friends, and meeting new ones, too.
On this walk in particular, though, everyone seemed busy. Peanut squirrel darted by, pausing briefly to say, “Hi Dragon! I can’t talk right now, the end of the year is coming and I must get ready!” With that, Peanut scurried off, disappearing into a leafy bush.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Away Islanders are you looking for a favorite episode? |
| 0:13.1 | You'll find it on Patreon.com forward slash Awee Island. |
| 0:19.3 | That's P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com forward slash Awee Island. |
| 0:26.5 | Our Patreon members get access to our library of past episodes, plus extra exclusive stories just for patrons. |
| 0:40.3 | And now, let's relax. Hello, Awey Islanders. We're so glad you're here. Let's see if you have everything you want to be calm on Awe Island. Are the lights in your room dim or off? Do you have your favorite blanket or listening buddy? Before we begin our story, let's relax by |
| 1:14.8 | taking a nice, deep dragon breath. Breathe in through your nose, filling up your lungs, |
| 1:21.8 | and then out through your mouth, imagining you are breathing fire like a dragon. |
| 1:28.3 | Ready? |
| 1:29.3 | Deep breath, in and out. |
| 1:37.3 | Good job. |
| 1:42.3 | Today, we're going to relax our entire bodies. First, wiggle all your toes, and then squeeze your toes together tight. Now relax them. |
| 2:10.6 | Then lift your leg up just a little and let it float back down. |
| 2:18.6 | Now lift your other leg just a little and let it float back down. |
| 2:25.5 | Let's take another deep dragon breath in and out. |
| 2:42.1 | Next, squeeze both your hands into tight fists, and then release them. |
| 2:59.3 | As you relax your hands, reach your arms around your chest, and give yourself a big hug and release now make a very grumpy face squeeze your eyes shut squinch up your, and hold the grumpy face. |
| 3:09.3 | Now let it go. |
| 3:15.3 | Now your whole body is relaxed. |
| 3:18.3 | So let's take one final deep breath, in and out. |
| 3:32.0 | Great job, everyone. |
| 3:34.3 | I hope you are tucked in nice and cozy. |
| 3:38.4 | We're ready to begin our story. |
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