Observing our surroundings through one or more of our senses helps focus our attention on the present, calming our minds and anchoring our bodies.
Mindful Tea Practice Uses Senses to Calm
This mindful tea practice engages the senses to help us anchor in the moment. Using our senses is a simple way slow down, notice and be present.
Blindfolded Fruit Tasting Game Sharpens Taste
For this sensory game, players use touch and taste to (literally) savor the moment. With the sense of sight temporarily switched off by a blindfold, the other senses are heightened, focusing...
Noticing vs. Reacting: The Ice Cube Episode
One of my favorite pre-parenting stories is from a birthing course that my husband and I took before the birth of our first daughter. Like many first-time parents, we had signed up to be...
An Unordinary Game with my Itty-Bitty
I recently wrote in the post "Learning from my toddler how to practice mindfulness with curiosity" that my 2-year old and I do a weekly walk right before music class. During our walks, she...
Guess the Letter/Shape on my Back
This activity is something that has been passed down in my family across generations- my grandmother did this activity my father, my father did it with me and now I have started doing it with my...
Foot Massage Gives Littles Deep Relaxation
Last night I organically discovered that a simple foot massage could become a "mindfulness practice" to help my daughters deeply relax after a bath or shower. We were doing their post-shower...