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Kids: Learn To Meditate
With Andy HobsonThis free 5 day course is lead by expert Mindfulness teacher – and Dad extraordinaire – Andy Hobson. Over the next 5 days, kids have the opportunity to explore working with their breath and dealing with overactive thoughts, managing sad or uncomfortable feelings, learning how to be more kind to themselves and, most importantly, how to let go and slow down. Each lesson is between 5-12 minutes, making them perfect to squeeze into your day.
This is a 5 day journey to teach children the basics of meditation. The course is for parents and teachers to play to children, with a suggested age range of 5 - 12 years. Children will learn how to use meditation to relax and free their mind of upset or worry.
About this course
This free 5 day course is lead by expert Mindfulness teacher – and Dad extraordinaire – Andy Hobson. Over the next 5 days, kids have the opportunity to explore working with their breath and dealing with overactive thoughts, managing sad or uncomfortable feelings, learning how to be more kind to themselves and, most importantly, how to let go and slow down. Each lesson is between 5-12 minutes, making them perfect to squeeze into your day.
Meet your Teacher
Andy’s vision is to create a happier, kinder, more conscious world through teaching meditation to adults and children. Since starting to teach in 2010, he has helped countless people around the world through his online guided meditations, courses and schools mindfulness programme. Andy draws upon many traditions, philosophies, therapeutic approaches and his personal meditation practice to teach how we can return to our true nature, free ourselves from the voice in our head and find lasting happiness, purpose and freedom. He trained to teach mindfulness based stress reduction in 2010 at the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice at Bangor University, UK – an international centre for excellence in mindfulness training. Since then he has run local mindfulness based stress reduction and mindfulness based cognitive therapy courses in London. Andy also has a Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling Skills from the BACP approved Manor House Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an Intermediate Diploma in Therapeutic Communications with Children from the London Metropolitan University. Before becoming a meditation teacher, Andy worked as a professional drummer. He found his dream job of playing music, touring the world and even meeting some of his musical heroes. After a couple of years he started to feel a dissatisfaction with his job, the initial shine of the rockstar life started to wear off and it felt like something big was missing. To understand this dissatisfaction Andy began to explore a number of spiritual traditions and philosophies and committed to a daily meditation practice. Over time he began to experience a greater sense of calm, contentment and happiness. A whole new world opened up. Having experienced the benefits of meditation Andy felt it was important to teach this life changing practice to others.