Mindfulness is a key component of the practice of Qigong.
Effects of a School-Based Mindfulness Program for Young Children [Sciutto 2021]. The present study found an 8-week (16 session) school-based mindfulness program for young children across 8 classrooms (K through 2) was associated with significant improvements in teacher ratings of externalizing and prosocial behaviors PMCID: PMC8046640.
Stress Management Interventions Among U.S. High School Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis. Conclusions: These findings support the short-term effectiveness of stress management interventions in improving mental health among high school adolescents in the United States. Subsequent research efforts should focus on sustaining long-term effects. [Qigong is an effective lifestyle stress management practice]. PMID: 36971329.
Newark Students Learn How To Teach Meditation To Their Peers.
Embracing mindfulness to combat life’s stressors and optimize cognitive performance
New school club encourages mindfulness.
Local mindfulness event is helping students stay focused through Tai Chi.
Schools Are Embracing Mindfulness, But Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect.
Can Qigong Improve Attention in Adolescents? A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial. Qigong improved attention in adolescents after 4 weeks of practice and should be integrated into physical education classes.
California Schools Move From Suspensions To Mindfulness. California schools will no longer be able to suspend students in elementary or middle school for "willful defiance" beginning in 2020.
Teaching Kids to 'Just Breathe' Through Meditation. Diaphragmatic breathing in Qigong practice positively affects the vagus nerve which regulates the autonomic nervous system, vital organs, and body function.
MINDFULNESS: Spanish schools teach meditation to children to improve mental health. EuroWeekly. Feb 10, 2019.
Teaching Qi Gong to Children. After only one session of Qigong, the results for children may be memorable and reproducible even away from the group. Giving a child beginner skills can be life changing. Qi Gong has the power to bring one physical ease, mental clarity, emotional stability and spiritual awareness. That is worthwhile at any age.
Schools should teach mindfulness.
Reading, writing and mindfulness. As kids struggle with problems of peer pressure, bullying and social anxiety, Winnipeg schools are exploring new ways to promote positive mental health
Mindfully me: Teaching meditation to children.
Use of Yoga, Meditation, and Chiropractors Among U.S. Children Aged 4–17 Years. NCHS Data Brief: Report shows increase in use of yoga and meditation by children.
A plan to address aggressive behavior and stress in schools. "I recently provided a “Troubled Waters Survival Guide” to this state’s school leaders, which suggests a number of research-based strategies that can be implemented without a significant expense or planning. Teachers, administrators, parents, students and citizens can implement these strategies, both in schools and at home: School-wide mindfulness practices: Increasing mindfulness practices that enable students to better self-regulate, especially in stressful situations, is critically important. Basics include daily mindfulness practice, mindfulness calming glitter jars on every elementary school students’ desk and a “calming corner” in every elementary school classroom. At the secondary level, the basics include several minutes of mindfulness breathing exercises during the morning announcements and another short mindfulness breathing session right after lunch, a mindfulness calming room that students can easily access, and encouragement for families to implement mindfulness practices in the home."
At 15 local schools, mornings that start with mindfulness help kids 'de-escalate and reflect'.
Mindfulness in Education. Mindfulness in education or in the classroom, implies a host of different things- it can be something as simple as calming the children down before the start of a class to something more complicated like studying the effects of words on their emotions or just making them aware of their environment and their role in society.
Developing a Health Qigong program for children: a 16-week curriculum. The Health Qigong for Children program has been successfully applied at several local elementary schools. Theme-based lessons and effective teaching strategies helped the Health Qigong program to be fun and age-appropriate for children.
The UK government will teach eight-year-olds mindfulness to tackle spike in kids’ mental health problems.
Mindfulness instruction improves psychological functioning and may ameliorate the negative effects of stress and reduce trauma-associated symptoms among vulnerable urban middle school students.
Promoting Prosocial Behavior and Self-Regulatory Skills in Preschool Children Through a Mindfulness-Based Kindness Curriculum. Self-regulatory abilities are robust predictors of important outcomes across the life span, yet they are rarely taught explicitly in school. Using a randomized controlled design, the present study investigated the effects of a 12-week mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum (KC) delivered in a public school setting on executive function, self-regulation, and prosocial behavior in a sample of 68 preschool children. The KC intervention group showed greater improvements in social competence and earned higher report card grades in domains of learning, health, and social-emotional development.
Qigong for the Classroom: A study published in the June 2007 issue of the Journal of Chinese Medicine has found that including a particular type of qigong exercise program helped calm and energize the students, as well as improving health and reducing aggression.
Qi Gong comes alive for children ages 2 to 9 through this original song and book with accompanying video. Basic moves are combined with catchy lyrics for easy learning in Let the Rain Fall Down. Children as young as two years old and even adults love this song. A moving meditation, Qi Gong emphasizes deep breathing with coordinated, repetitive motions. The exercises are reflective of nature, like a tree rooted and reaching for the sun, a bird flying high in the sky and a warm, gentle rain. Standing with enough room to spread their arms, children benefit physically, emotionally and mentally with this powerful tool.
Dr. Gaspar Garcia realized that if businessmen had been taught from their childhood simple breathing and relaxation techniques, as well as basic preventive medicine concepts, they would not suffer as adults the devastating effects of stress. The Smart Living Program was born from that realization. This program was implemented in schools in Costa del Sol, Spain, and its objective was to convey these teachings to children and young people so they would be able to benefit from them throughout their lives.
Mindfulness in practice: Considerations for implementation of mindfulness-based programming for adolescents in school contexts. The author formulates initial recommendations for successful school-based implementation of mindfulness. Practical resources and recommendations for finding, choosing, and successfully implementing and sustaining a mindfulness program in an educational context are provided.
Learning to BREATHE: An intervention to foster mindfulness in adolescence. During adolescence, young people are traversing exciting and also challenging stages in their development. Mindfulness, if taught in a developmentally appropriate way, has the potential to be an asset in adolescents' lives. Developmentally appropriate approaches of mindfulness intervention during adolescence need to consider adolescents' social contexts (for example, school setting, peer group, family), their cognitive and emotional stages in development, and age-specific strength and vulnerabilities.
Physical health benefits of health Qigong and Energize programs in American elementary school classroom.Health Qigong can be as effective as aerobic exercise and physical education activities in reducing heart rate and increasing Sit-and-Reach among elementary school children. In particular, body mass index decreased more quickly in the Health Qigong group than aerobic exercise or conventional physical education activities [PMCID: PMC3373475].
Review finds yoga improves children's physical and mental well-being, and yoga in schools helps students improve resilience, mood, and self-regulation skills pertaining to emotions and stress.
Hiruko incorporates Qigong and Tai Chi fundamentals into martial arts training for youngsters.
Children need more meditation and less stimulation.
Yoga Therapy for children with special needs.
The David Lynch Foundation is bringing meditation to schools to help with a silent epidemic among young people: stress.
Research partnership brings mindfulness/yoga practices to schools in Middle East. Palestinian educators, health professionals, social workers and refugee service providers recently received training in Transformative Life Skills (TLS) -- a social-emotional learning program that aims to reduce students’ stress and promote social-emotional health and physical wellness through mindfulness and yoga training -- from a team of trainers and researchers from Penn State, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and the Oakland-based nonprofit Niroga Institute.
