Spirit Lab

Meditation Techniques

In a Seminar I teach to pre-service educators on Issues of Early Child Education, I introduce the topic of Children’s Spirituality, and ask my students to complete an assignment in which they carry out a Meditation Project with the children they teach in their internship sites. In order to provide them with the tools to facilitate meditation for mindfulness purposes for their students, I provide my students with a weekly meditation technique for them to have personal experiences with practicing meditation. Here, I share the techniques I recorded for my students for each of our seminar sessions. These are not necessarily sequential techniques, the technique numbers represent the weeks in the semester in which they are introduced, yet they need not be practiced in that specific order. If there is a technique you prefer and feel more comfortable with, you might wish to repeat that technique and perhaps skip others you do not feel drawn to. Each technique has a duration of approximately 10 minutes.

Energy Exercises

This is a series of exercises (in both English and Spanish) that can be used to work with energy across your different bodies and energetic fields. Take your time, as you practice working with energy to self-heal and learn to transmute physical pain.

Children’s Books

Here is an ever-growing list, I have compiled over time, of children’s books with themes that will help introduce topics related to spirituality. You will find the topics of these books transcend cultural and religious differences, and unite us, pulling us closer together, based on what we have in common, the most basic, primal, intuitive source of humanness: our spirit.

Music and Other Resources

Here, you will find lists of CDs, music tracks, recommended apps, and other resources my colleagues and I have found work well for adults and children when addressing topics of spirituality. Some are specific for working with meditation and mindfulness, and others prompt joy and awe that will nurture and support spiritual moments.

Here are the slides for my most recent presentation at the 2023 NAEYC Annual Conference, “Spirituality The North Star: How can we support spirituality in the secular classroom?” I hope you find all these resources useful.