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Breathe Like a Bear: 30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere (Mindfulness Moments for Kids) Paperback – Illustrated, December 5, 2017

by Kira Willey (Author), Anni Betts (Illustrator)
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Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school.

Based on Kira Willey’s Parents’ Choice GOLD Award-winning CD, Mindful Moments for Kids, this one-of-a-kind book is sure to help kids find calm, gain focus, and feel energized during the day, and encourage families to establish a fun and consistent mindfulness practice, whether at home or on the go.
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  5. Grade level
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  7. Dimensions
    7.56 x 0.3 x 9.13 inches
  8. Publisher
    Rodale Kids
  9. Publication date
    December 5, 2017
  10. ISBN-10
    1623368839
  11. ISBN-13
    978-1623368838
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Read all the books in this series of Mindfulness Moments for Kids! Mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Mindful exercises designed to bring calm to the most important parts of the day. Kids learn to control their breathing and calm themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear! Kids learn to listen to the world around them and focus their minds--no matter how messy life becomes. Kids learn to replenish energy with quick, focused breaths...no matter how blah they feel. Kids learn how to take control of their emotions and breathe their way to calm. Coming October 12, 2021!

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“Breathe Like a Bear is a beautiful guide to mindfulness. Parents, teachers, caregivers— and especially kids—will love the different ways to explore mindfulness and breath through animals and story in Breathe Like a Bear. Both lyrical and practical, this much-needed book will help children navigate the world around them!”
—Susan Verde, author of I Am Yoga and I Am Peace

“I love this book! Breathe Like a Bear is filled with playful and imaginative ideas for helping kids connect to themselves, whether it’s their own strong energy or inner calm. Each moment that Kira has so elegantly sculpted and described conjures up delicious, beautiful, or whimsical, child-friendly scenarios. It’s exactly this fun and accessible style that will make kids want to try every one of these little gems that provides simple tools for big change.”
—Laurie Berkner, award-winning and bestselling children’s musical artist

Author Willey brings years of experience in children's music and movement to her debut.The book is divided into five sections ("Be Calm," "Focus," "Imagine," "Make Some Energy," and "Relax"), which are further sectioned into double-page-spread subtopics. Each spread includes one or two breath-centered exercises to encourage a habit and practice of mindfulness. Most, but not all, include references to wild animals and nature that are sure to appeal to young children. They are encouraged to use their imaginations as launch pads for being present: "Imagine you're a cloud in the sky" and "Imagine you're a sleepy lion, just waking up in the morning" are typical. The exercises are brief and excellent for short attention spans, though some offer opportunities for extension through pacing. The instructional text is simple enough for fluent readers to use in self-guided practice, though each exercise likely works best as a read-aloud. Betts accompanies each exercise with charming illustrations featuring foxes, elephants, fanciful clouds, and, of course, bears. This friendly book is sure to appeal to educators and caregivers looking for an accessible and kid-friendly introduction to mindfulness. A breath of fresh air. - Kirkus Reviews

Breathe Like a Bear teaches kids how to flex their mindfulness muscles and be calm, focused, imaginative,energized and relaxed. Kira Willey offers up fun activities that are sure tocaptivate young audiences and start them developing positive energy-producinghabits for their physical and mental well-being. And as Michelle KelseyMitchell points out in the foreword, "Children who practice mindfulnessare better able to self-regulate, have improved social skills... anddemonstrate higher self-esteem." Accentuating the engaging exercises aredelightful illustrations of animals and nature portrayed in strikingly boldcolors. This enjoyable, interactive book is a sneaky way to promote a healthyapproach to life with the small people you value most.
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About the Author

Kira Willey, author of Breathe Like a Bear and the Mindfulness Moments for Kids series, is a children’s music artist, kids’ yoga and mindfulness expert, and creator of Rockin’ Yoga school programs. She has released five albums of kids’ yoga and mindfulness songs; her work has won Parents’ Choice Gold, four Independent Music Awards, and the ASCAP Foundation Children’s Songwriting Award. Her hits include “Colors,” which was featured in a worldwide Dell ad campaign. Kira created and hosts several yoga-for-kids programs which air on PBS TV affiliates nationwide; and her TEDx talk, “Bite-Sized Mindfulness,” can be viewed online. Learn more at kirawilley.com! 

Anni Betts is a professional illustrator who creates vibrant, cheerful drawings for books, magazines, advertisements, greeting cards, and more. Originally from Illinois, she now lives in Durham, England, with her archaeologist husband, Kamal, new son, Emmett, and adorable dog, Logan. When not illustrating, she can be found exploring the historic sights and natural beauty of the United Kingdom and Europe, baking sweets, going for long walks, and sewing colorful clothes to wear. Visit her online at annibetts.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rodale Kids; Illustrated edition (December 5, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623368839
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623368838
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 6 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 560L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.56 x 0.3 x 9.13 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Bought the book after I took the children literacy development, it is an amazing tool, helping children to calm down and relax. Each meditation is using friendly with children, keeping them engaged.
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Nine months ago our 3 kids moved in with us (now ages 4, 6, and 8) and we finalized the adoption a couple months ago. They have been through immense trauma and have made incredible progress, but we still sometimes struggle with helping them to calm down from anxiety, fear, anger, and manic episodes. We have tried so many techniques but this seems to be the one that consistently works and here is why I think that's the case:
1. Each meditation is bite-sized. The brevity makes it seem more do-able to my kids even when they are extremely dysregulated.
2. The illustrations are engaging, inviting, pleasant to look at, colorful.
3. The imagery in each meditation makes it easy for kids to focus on their senses - for example, holding a candle or a cup of hot chocolate.
4. There are enough meditations to choose from that the kids can easily find one they feel like doing in any given moment without it being the same thing every time.
5. Even though I'm the one reading it to them and making them do it, it helps that the instructions are coming from a third party (the book) so that it's not just Boring Mom and Dad telling them what to do.

We have mainly used this book in two ways. One is as a transition from our bedtime routine into getting in bed. We have them turn on their flashlights and sit in bed and we turn off the overhead light. Then we read one or two of the meditations for relaxing and we all do it together. After that we are able to turn off their flashlights and have them lay down for reading time. It sets the tone for bedtime and the kids really love it. The other way we have used the book is when one of the kids is really dysregulated. Our 8yo gets into manic episodes where she laughs hysterically, pushes her sisters, breaks every rule, etc and for the life of me I could not figure out a way to get her out of this mode. The other day when she was in one of these modes, I pulled her aside and had her do a few "be calm" meditations from the book with me and like magic she was a functioning child again. We also used it with our 6yo when she got into a spiraling tantrum where she just got herself into more and more and more trouble and couldn't stop. I told her she could earn back the privileges she had lost if she did a few meditations with me, and she just kept wanting to do more of them even after she had earned it back already. It really helped calm her and turn things around.

I'm sure there are a ton of ways to use this that we haven't taken advantage of yet. But so far just in these two different use cases it's been extremely helpful.
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Breath Like a Bear is great for kids but fabulous for adults! In this wild and crazy world we must have a way to calm ourselves in a simple safe way. Our breath is with us no mater where we are, it’s kind like having your binki with you all the time. Calm is as close as your breath.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of good tools to have
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We have been having issues with our 3 year old being very reactive and emotional. With a new baby on the way, our doctor recommended this book to help teach him and ourselves tools to help calm down when we see him starting to get worked up. So far, these have been really helpful. Of course there are a few concepts he doesn't quite grasp that are in the book, but the exercises and things to do to help calm down have been very helpful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for my 8 year old
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My daughter has a problem with becoming overwhelmed with her emotions. This book has given her creative ways to help that she thinks are fun and wants to do.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great tool for anxious kids
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This was recommended by our pediatrician and it has some really great techniques and ideas in it. I will say it may be a tad young for kids over 10.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for the whole family!
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I bought this book for my 2 and 4 year old grandsons to learn some coping skills for when the get overwhelmed. It's also good for adults! ;)

The illustrations are very pretty and engaging for little ones. Even my 2 year old was able to do the breathing exercises.
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My granddaughter just loves this book, she is only 3 and participates in the yoga breathing and movement techniques very happily.
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This book is great to use for kids with anxiety. My I use many of these strategies with my own kids and the anxiety that the pandemic brought to them. The kids enjoyed the colourful pages and easy to follow directions. It is reasonably priced and very interactive for kids to help with their anxiety.
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Bought this for my son. He is quite peaceful but has tantrums once in a while, like everyone else. We read it and did the exercises and he tries it when he gets upset. I love the practical examples of the hot chocolate or the candle.
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I cannot tell you how impressed I am with these books. All the books have a moral lesson, bit like Aesop's Fables. Twelve books in the series and I bought them all. With the impending birth of my first Great Grandchild I wanted to leave a legacy, if you like. Beautifully illustrated and written, each book stresses the importance of the last 20 minutes in the day, when you read to your child before bed, snuggled together, breathing together, ensuring security and the feeling of great love and kindness in a spirit of mindfulness. The books engender kindness to ourselves and others.
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