Kids: Learn To Meditate - by Andy Hobson

COURSE

Kids: Learn To Meditate

With Andy Hobson

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.

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Meet your Teacher

Andy Hobson
West Berkshire, UK

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.

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5 Days

29.2k students

4.9 stars

12 min / day

For Parents

English

Lesson 1

Learning The Basics

Today, Andy will take us through a step-by-step guide for learning how to meditate. Together, we will explore how you can use your breath and imagination to help you to relax and feel more calm, even when you have lots of thoughts in your head. Get ready to go on a journey up into the sky!

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Lesson 2

Cloud Gazing

Today you’ll learn a gentle meditation that will help you see your thoughts more clearly. Together, we will learn to watch our thoughts, the same way we might watch clouds passing by. This can be a very helpful tool when it comes to managing those worried, angry and, sometimes, unkind thoughts that can go round and round in our heads.

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Lesson 3

Finding Feelings

Today you’ll learn helpful ways to feel more calm and peaceful when you have strong feelings like anger, sadness, fear or worry. When we have a thought about something it can create a feeling inside our body. Feelings can sometimes make us feel unsettled or just a bit wobbly. In our meditation today, you'll be encouraged to notice where feelings show up in your body, get to know them in a new way and use your breath to help calm them a little. Doing this can help you have more understanding of your feelings, give you some space to respond to them and let them naturally settle when they’re ready.

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Lesson 4

A Happy Heart

Today we’ll explore the importance of self kindness. Sometimes we judge ourselves unfairly, comparing ourselves to other people like friends, family and successful people on the internet. Doing this doesn’t make us feel great and can limit what we think we’re capable of. Your meditation today is about self kindness, kindness to others and remembering that you are awesome no matter what your mind thinks. You can always be yourself without having to try to be someone you're not, please anyone or achieve anything. Today is all about you being you, just as you are.

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Lesson 5

Beach Chillin

In the last lesson of this course you’ll learn about the importance of pausing and taking time out to relax. Life as a kid can get pretty busy and sometimes we can feel the pressure. After all, you have school, homework, school tests, friends to figure out, and adults telling you what and what not to do so it’s important to slow down and have some YOU time. In our visualisation meditation today you’re going to take a trip to the beach to do just one thing...chill out. We’ll end the session with a short piece of information on how to keep going with meditation and how to make it work for you. Everyone is different and some meditation styles will be more helpful to us than others. Congratulations on completing this 5 day adventure into meditation. Well done!

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 315 community questions and 148 audio replies from Andy Hobson. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Sandip

January 12, 2026

Nice

Ayelet

January 11, 2026

Thank you Andy! This was really great.

Smriti

August 21, 2025

It was very very very very very very very very good

Stefan

July 17, 2025

Great!

Roy

June 3, 2025

Just great

Catalina

May 5, 2025

Very calming.i do worry a lot thank you this was very peaceful ☺️

Alissa

April 19, 2025

my sleep was so good

Bríd

January 18, 2025

Great for my eight year old boy with big feelings!!!

MaryAnn

January 18, 2025

Great

Sandip

December 3, 2024

Good

Samdip

December 3, 2024

Nice

Sandip

December 3, 2024

Nice content

Dee

November 7, 2024

Despite being on the younger side, my 3-year-old loved this.

Maz

October 30, 2024

My 9 years old really love it and we play it at bedtime. Another gem from Andy’s awsome creative work (check him out), thanks for being here 😊

Anne

September 4, 2024

I

Sandip

July 15, 2024

Good

Jeb

June 26, 2024

Nice

Shivi

May 22, 2024

Nice course

Kasia

March 15, 2024

What a treat! My kids loved it. Beautifully done. Thank you so much❤️

Raisa

February 23, 2024

My son loved his voice

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