Mindfulness and Yoga Resources for Middle and High School Students

Free online yoga classes

Marisa Weppner, Yin-licous (Live at Wanderlust)

Gentle Kripalu Yoga Class with Meghan Nancy Buttenheim

Doyogawithme.com  (100% free yoga video streaming, classes, poses, breathing exercises)

There are lots more classes, the above are only a few


Mindfulness Apps for your Phone

Stop, Breathe and Think

Calm: Meditation

Smiling Mind

Take a Break

Take a Chill – Stressed Teens (For iphone $1.99)

Headspace (By Amazon, 30 day free Trial, $12.95 monthly fee to continue)

These Apps offer a great introduction to several free short mindfulness / meditation breaks. If you want to receive longer meditations and more options then the app requires the monthly fee.



Books (Middle/High School Readers)

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. Daniel Siegel

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse

Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

 

Yoga and Mindfulness Resources for Teachers and Parents

Books

Feinstein S (2013)   Secrets of The Teenage Brain: Research-based Strategies for Reaching and Teaching Today's Adolescents

Chozen Bays J (2011)  How To Train A Wild Elephant: And other Adventures in mindfulness

Kabat-Zinn J (2013)  Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness

Willard C (2016)  Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Family Find Balance, Calm and Resilience

Greene R (2014)  Lost At School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and how we can Help Them.

Williams M and Penman D (2012)  Mindfulness: An Eight Week Plan For Finding Peace in a Frantic World

Thich Nhat Hanh ( 2010)   You Are Here: Discovering The Magic of the Present Moment

Seigel D (2015)  Brainstorm: The Power and The Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Broderick P (2013) Learning To Breathe: A Mindfulness Cirriculum to Cultivate Emotional Regulation, Attention and Performance