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Kind roots - creative mindfulness, Aberdeen (2025)

23/10/2023

Hello All💞 I hope that you are all well. I needed to take some break from the classes, due to increased hours at my other job. Also, I needed time to figure some deeper stuff, and why am I burning out mentally so much- we cannot pour from an empty cup❤️💞 I miss the classes and currently I am in the process of working out what would work the best,so in can work more and still have the energy to focus on creative mindfulness classes... would workshops style classes be something that you would consider? I am thinking of running a workshop in December-the focus will be gratitude, self-compassion, and compassion for all beings...we will meditate, chat, and mindfully enjoy some creative task 😊

11/05/2023

This week, children were exploring relationship with themselves. The relationship we have with ourselves is a big part of cultivating a joyful heart 😊 💖 younger group started the class with the bell, and everyone had a turn to ring it, and we all listened. Then we played our affirmation/breath dice game, followed by the story time, we read I'm Enough by Grace Byers. For craft, the younger group created self-compassion/love caterpillars and beautiful butterflies 🦋 as we are kind to ourselves, we feed our caterpillar, which then turns into a beautiful, unique butterfly 🦋
In older group we consolidated what we had been exploring for these past weeks, intention, what we want to grow in our minds, and today I introduced the children to the mirror work, they all have written beautiful things they can tell themselves when they look in the mirror 🪞 one of which was 'I love you"🥰 ❤️ then, they also created beautiful butterflies 🦋 ❤️ we also had special guests in the class tonight ,Teddy and Swiss cheese -my daughter's guinea piggies 🐷 last week children asked her if she could bring her guineas in ,and she did tonight ❤️ all children loved Teddy and Swiss cheese. Tonight was last class, we will be back after the summer ☀️ I hope you all have a wonderful time enjoying the spring and summer, and thank you for attending my classes 💖 I'm very grateful 🙏
Teachings based on wonderful method 🥰

04/05/2023

The older group also continues with the theme of joy. We had explored it a bit deeper tonight. I was so inspired by the practice, my wonderful teacher Louise Shanagher did with us on Tuesday. She introduced self- soothing touch, and I especially embraced the holding of our monkey minds with love and compassion ❤️ Therefore, tonight after the bell, I invited the children to close their eyes if they were comfortable with it, and rest their attention on the breath, we took 3 deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. Then, I asked children to give themselves a butterfly hug (I showed it to them before we started practice), I guided the children to focus the monkey mind on the rhythm their hands were making as they were tapping themselves, I asked how they were feeling,then we moved to placing a hand on the forehead and the other on top on the head and we held our monkey minds with so much love and compassion,as they are so busy a lot of the time🥰 we finished by checking in with how our mind felt ?,how our heart felt? And how our body felt💖 then we talked about joy and how we can grow our inner joy bigger. I asked children to divide the page in two ,and to write positive self-talk on one, and negative on the other. Then, I gave them torches and asked to shine the light on negative thoughts. Then,Buster the parrot came out, and I explained to children that these negative thoughts are repetitive like a parrot, and if we shine the light on them these thoughts get even louder and more repetitive. So, we shined the light on the positive ones and started traning the parrot to do just that🥰 we have read the beautiful story "I'm enough" by Grace Byers and chatted about trying our best and let it be enough💖 then each child picked a rock, and we put it together to form a beautiful flower, as this is what happens when we are kind to ourselves, we plant beautiful garden in our minds and our joy grows ❤️ teachings based on method, and parrot idea came from fellow practitioner .classes

02/05/2023

Younger group continues with the theme of joy😊 we started the class by ringing the bell and listening until it went quiet- everyone had a turn. Them, we settled our monkey minds a bit more with 5 hot chocolate breaths, and then we moved on to discussing joy. What is joy, whether it is pleasant or unpleasant feeling, and how joy makes us feel: calm ,happy content ,grateful ,loving, etc. I them asked children to close their eyes and think about something that brings them joy and notice how it feels inside their bodies. We spoke about happy butterflies ,sunny and light hearts ,clear minds ... children then coloured paper dolls to show where in the body we feel joy. It is lovely exercise for mind -body connection🥰 we then read the Kindness Grows story by Britta Teckentrup ,beautiful story about growing kindness and friendship💖 we then had a chat about kind and angry/fearful bear 🐻 and that we have a choice to decide which one we feed 😊 we placed fruits with various messages on them the kind ones and the not so kind ones into the bowl of the correct bear, we discussed that we first need to be kind to ourselves, so we can be kind to others too🥰We noticed that when we feed the kind bear, our joy and kindness grow bigger too 😊 I had sumblox and we stuck them on top of another. When we fed the angry bear, our joy got smaller too. Then, we moved on to collaborative art with long brushes to increase proprioception awareness and notice how our bodies move differently when we use long brushes, we moved our whole bodies ,not only our hands. We created the kindness/joy tree that grew bigger because we fed our kind bear 🐻
Teachings based on wonderful method

01/05/2023

Continued...
Sadly, there is so much such unhealthy comparison between the children these days ,especially in tweens and adolescents... I was asking myself :" why are they putting themselves down instead of cheering each other up... " ,of course, I understand why... but, wouldn't it be wonderful if we all cheered each other, if we so make a mistake and hurt someone, to say sorry 💖 the brain just scans for danger all the time... and that response came from that "amygdala activation-threat respone" ... I chatted to my daughter about healthy boundaries, and how they can help protect her mental health. It is better to have one good friend than many who don't really support us. We finished by saying" you are enough ,you are beautiful, you have done your best, you went out there and you did it ! That's amazing " . We don't have to be the best ,just tey our best and that's enough". My daughter felt upliftee after our conversation. These things will happen, we can not protect our children all the time, but through our chats and shares she is building up resilience and she knows she is loved ! 🥰

01/05/2023

I just wanted to share something. On Saturday, my daughter had her very first show at her riding club. She was so excited to wear her show outfit and do the course. She was in poles category. We know how big of a step forward that was for her to stretch herself outside of her comfort zone. She is not a child that likes all eyes on her, abd can be quite shy and unsure in new groups, and especially events, this was her first ever after football gala when she was 8 years old, and really struggled to take part, but loved playing football ⚽️ ❤️She did her course and went out there on Saturday and was so happy and proud of herself even though it didn't go exactly to how she planned it... she didn't place. However, we both know that she did her best and I said to her :"let your best be enough, look how far you have come 🥰" .
After the show, she posted picture of herself on social media with the phrase "first show".... she was super happy and proud that she did it in front of many people 👏 however, this quickly turn into sadness after one of the girls commented and send my daughter voice messages telling her "girl ,what show ,you only did poles ,that's not even a show ,wait till you do jumping then it's a show ..." this obviously hurt my daughter's feelings. She became angry and snappy with me (didn't tell me yet) ,and I kept asking is everything OK? I'm so grateful, that both of my children share with me things that bug them in their own time ,but they do... I have seen and heard the massages that girl sent to my daughter, and it got me so angry and mad ... I let myself feel that way ,naming how I was feeling... then, I had a chat with my daughter and explained to her :" This girl's response to your post comes from her own insecurities, from fear, it is envious. She compares you to her. However, you are not her ,you only compare yourself to yourself and look at your own progress in this circumstances. You know you did the best you could have done, and let it be enough. You are worthy of trying ,of taking part in the show ,and of being happy and proud of yourself. Don't let anyone dim your light ✨️"

28/04/2023

And this wonderful young man🥰 he was unschooled since the age of 12, his passion is music 🎶 🎵 he had guitar lessons ,then he started producing his own music on fl studios and over those years ,he has become an amazing musician 🥰 he got accepted to Riverside Music college in Glasgow to study HND in Sound Production... words can not describe how happy I feel for him ,for his new chapter ☺️ 💕

28/04/2023

I'm so proud of this wonderful human being 🥰 she has come a long way over the years ,and now is ready to participate in her first ever show at her riding club tomorrow 💖 "Mum ,do you know how courageous it feels ?" ... yes ,I do know my darling 😘 ❤️

28/04/2023

Some new resources arrived today. Oh, the smell of grimms waves and the feel of the silk,these silks are just so soft to touch 🥰

27/04/2023

This week we have been exploring Intention. Younger group started the class with a snake breathing to help settle our monkey 🐒 minds. Then we played mindful musical game: I was singing what's in the music bag would you like to see ? If you would like to take a look just do: 3 balloon breaths , 2 butterfly breaths, notice 3 things you can see ,feel your feet on the ground etc... Once children got their chosen instruments, we gave our monkey minds job of focusing on the rhythm- playing fast and quiet ,slow and loud, fast and loud etc.. then we added stop/go sign and we needed to pay attention to the person that was holding it to know when to stop and when to go😊 this was fun. We then relaxed with musical chimes, listening to the sound and breathing into our bellies, tensing our bodies, and relaxing and listening 🎶 then we had a brief chat about intention and proceeded to craft - compass of the heart ❤️ little ones really got into transformational schematic experimentation, and enjoying mixing all colours together, again and again 😀
With older groups, we got to chat a bit deeper about intention and what it means. How we can make a heartfelt intention that not only includes ourselves but all wider community, and how following it can make us happier. We explored a few different intentions for each theme of the compass. I explained to the children that they are the captains of their minds.
We closed our eyes and imagined something that brings us joy, a place or a person... then I asked the children to really feel it in their bodies, and where did they feel the joy in their bodies. They then coloured a paper doll in places where they feel joy. After, I invited children for body scan with musical chimes. We tensed our bodies and relaxed and noticed the sensations we experienced, then I gently played the chimes guiding the children to listen and relax 😌 then, children moved on to creating their compasses of their hearts 💕
Teachings based on beautiful creative mindfulness method developed by woderful Louise Shanagher

25/04/2023

What's in the music bag ? Would you like to see 👀? 🎶 🎵 I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight for some mindful music making and chatting about intention setting, we are the captains of the ship (our mind) 🚢 we decide which direction it will go ... Will it be joy? Kindness ? Love? Or friendship ?

24/04/2023

I immersed myself in a beautiful sound bath experience last night. Two hours of soul nourishment. I absolutely loved the chakra voice exercise - making sounds together for each chakra. Feeling the vibrations of my voice and voices of others in the room passing my body, then sitting in silence in between the sounds, noticing sensations in my body 💖 after the sound bath, we finished with 7 OMs 🕉 chanting together.... Milena from Vibrational Medicine is absolutely fantastic in what she is doing. She truly pours her heart and soul into her sound baths💖 next one is in May ,at Kingswells Village Hall. Have a look at her page for all details at Vibrational Medicine... sound is a powerful healer

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