Breathe & Learn with Laura

27/01/2026

🎉20% off if booked before 2nd February🎉

🍃£54 down to £43 for 6 weeks
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26/01/2026

Book any group block, 1:1 or family sessions before 2nd February and get 20% off your booking 😊
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26/01/2026

I had a lovely family session at the weekend introducing the BREATHE approach and techniques we can use as a family to help manage big emotions. It was so nice having the whole family take part in the whole session and use some BREATHE vocabulary such as ‘meerkat moments’ so quickly and naturally.

Everyone has meerkat moments and it’s far easier to navigate these big emotions and co-regulate with your children if everyone uses the same words and regulation strategies.

Do you often see big emotions popping up when trying to get out the door for school, when asked to come off a screen, or at bedtime when all the worries from today and those about tomorrow come up?

Do you find yourself shouting and rushing kids to ‘calm down’ because time is tight? We all have these moments!!

A family BREATHE session can help bring more calm to your home with the understanding of why we have big emotions and how we can help manage them, together. 🥰

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25/01/2026

Free Winter Sports Yoga Poster Download

With the Winter Olympics in Milan coming soon, we created a free Winter Sports Yoga poster for your classroom!

This colorful printable features 5 winter sports poses (snowboarder, figure skater, hockey player, alpine skier and curler) that kids can practice while celebrating the Olympic spirit.

Download it, print it, and watch your students become winter athletes through yoga.

Perfect timing as the world gathers in Italy! >> https://www.kidsyogastories.com/winter-olympics-yoga/

22/01/2026

2026 plans for Breathe & Learn with Laura…

21/01/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scot’s/Burns Poems🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Off to school worrying but reminding herself: “I’m good at this and can do it, I know all the words!”

Affirmations and deep breaths can help in lots of nervous situations.

Anyone else’s child stressing over their Scot’s poem? I hated this as a child at school. Like my own kids, I enjoyed learning them and saying them at home but absolutely hated having to recite them to my class.

Luckily most schools nowadays have stopped this or give the option to say it to their teacher 1:1 or say it in maybe pairs or groups. I would never make a child stand on front of the class and recite a poem, unless they chose to.
However I do think it’s important to learn about our own heritage and it should be made fun, learning the vocabulary and saying the poem as a class, rather than big focus on memorising and reciting it, which isn’t even one of the benchmarks in the curriculum!

20/01/2026

Interesting!

SECOND CHANCE SUNDAY

Our What Is.... Series - today, INTEROCEPTION.

The hidden sense behind emotional regulation.

If a child seems to “go from 0 to 100” with no warning…

If they melt down suddenly…
If they struggle to tell you what’s wrong until they’re already overwhelmed…

There’s often a hidden sense behind it — interoception.

Today’s one-page visual breaks down what interoception is, why it’s so important for emotional regulation, and how you can gently support a young person whose internal signals feel confusing or too loud.

20/01/2026

🥰I love working with children and families to build on their emotional literacy. All emotions/feelings are ok be it happy, sad, excited or angry, it’s how we manage these and work with them that’s important.

🧠Breathe sessions help children and families understand our brains to then be able to work with different big emotions and find ways to regulate to be able to communicate, play, learn, sleep etc.

⚒️The breathe approach can help children with their self esteem, find tools that help them to relax, work through challenges, and build resilience.

🍃This can all help in day to day life - when finding something tricky in school or at clubs, when doing crafts at home, when unexpected changes occur, when experiencing sensory overload, during tricky bedtimes.

I can help teach simple strategies to help overcome all of these 🥰

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19/01/2026

15/01/2026

Reached 200+ followers! 🎉 Welcome to new followers and thank you to old for sharing!
Please keep sharing my posts to get this page seen and get emotional literacy out there!

The BREATHE approach supports children and families by simplifying neuroscience to help develop emotional literacy - understanding, managing and regulating big emotions, all through fun, mindful and relaxed sessions.

13/01/2026

Autistic Barbie… she has ear defenders, a fidget ring and a communication tablet. What are your thoughts?💭🤔

I’m in 2 minds.

1. Representing autistic people as being accepted in society, and Barbie building on their availability of diverse dolls. They now have a variety of skin colours which I appreciate for one of my children who took her Dad’s skin tone, she used to often play with the chelsea doll who “looked like her” 🥰 she also had a doll in a wheel chair, one with glasses, and curvier barbies. You can buy barbies with prosthetic legs and Matell’s first aim, showing Barbie with all different careers and hobbies. All of this showing children that we are all different but should all be included.
Autistic Barbie doesn’t just have autism but she has brown skin and is a girl (there’s still a lot of peole who associate autism with boys). Fab!

But…

2. My autistic son’s words when I showed him autistic barbie last night, “that’s so stereotypical, I can talk and not everyone with autism wears ear defenders, I wear loops now”!! He also mentioned how anyone could be autistic, they don’t look any different. Maybe original barbie had autism.
I can’t help but kind of agree with him when autism covers a huge spectrum. Should Matell maybe have just brought out an accessory pack?

Or is she a good representation of many people with autism? Like many my son has ear defenders, now wears loops as more subtle at high school. He relies on many fidgets for different situations. And a lot of people with autism do struggle with communication and reply on tablets to help them navigate day to day life. So maye this is a good way of teaching children why the boy in their class wears those ‘headphones’ or the girl in their Brownies group is allowed her tablet, or why there’s kids in their class who get to bring wee toys to school… 🤔

10/01/2026

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒As parents we often worry about our children’s learning and how they’re doing compared to their peers. As a teacher I know that children who are the same age might be at completely different stages in their learning, so I’ve never compared mine, or in fact worried too much about where they’re at. Just like learning to sit, crawl, walk and talk, children develop at different rates… academic learning is no different. They will progress in their own time and get there in the end with a little extra practise than maybe their friends need.
🧑‍🧒This is what I love about tutoring, helping children to make progress at their own pace, in their own way in areas they are finding tricky. It doesn’t concern me that my own child is a little behind in numeracy than where she should be but now that it’s impacting in her confidence and making her not want to go to school I am going to look for a tutor (crazy I know when that’s my own job!)
📋I have a waiting list for tutoring because parents, like me, want the best for their children and the main thing I work on with many children is building their confidence and bringing back the joy in whichever areas they are needing support in.

🥰However, emotional literacy is even more important than academic ability.
A child needs to have good emotional literacy, understand we all have different strengths, have a growth mindset and be regulated before they are ready to learn.
🍃My child has been practising the breathe approach with me for 2 years at home now and also attending my breathe classes. I feel she is ready to understand her difficulties and work with someone to practise her numeracy to then make improvements. All in all hopefully building her confidence back up. 🥰

📲To help your child develop their emotional literacy and help them be ready to learn and take on life’s ups and downs along the way, get in touch to book them into the next block of breathe sessions, for 1:1 sessions or a family session.💙