Connected Kids for Big People

13/08/2025

Delighted to write this article for the Spirit of Change Magazine about helping children access their inner calm button - especially if they struggle with anxiety and trauma.

Read it here.

Parenting with intuitive mindfulness helps me understand children when they can’t articulate calmly the why and how of their struggle.

12/08/2025

soooooo if you were ever curious about what we do - tomorrow there's a free webinar. 'Discover the Connected Kids Method'. Register for free (recordings available) and the next one will be in October! :)

(the link is on our website )

or you can search for it on eventbrite...

(loving the boy in this photo trying not to yawn! 😂)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-webinar-explore-the-connected-kids-method-tickets-1476517125469?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

08/08/2025

This is a short excerpt from my 2nd book, 'Connected Kids'. It comes from one of the pilot studies we conducted with families to explore the possibility of creating meditations for children who struggle.

These children taught me. I had to learn how to adapt teaching meditation to meet their needs.

They could meditate; we just needed to show them how.

This quote, from the book, is from a mother and her 7-year-old daughter, who were initially struggling. Simply learning to notice her breath and using yoga postures helped them both.

I hope it inspires you to try teaching meditation.

Author-signed copies of 'Connected Kids' are available on our website. http://www.teachchildrenmeditation.com/

The book is available on Amazon, other bookstores and your local library.

05/08/2025

Another opportunity to join me live – Teaching Meditation to Children & Teens
Breath: The Inner Calm Button 🧘‍♀️

If you missed the last session, here’s another chance to join me live and learn how to explore a simple breath technique that teaches young people to create calm and focus — whether it’s in your family or through your work.

📅 Wednesday 6th August
🕝 2:15pm (BST)
👥 FREE to attend (just follow the link to register your interest)

This live class is part of my Teaching Meditation to Children 101 series on Insight Timer.

I'll guide you through one of my favourite meditation tools and show how to adapt it for children, teens, and different energy styles.

✨ You’ll get practical tips you can use straight away.
✨ Bring your questions — I’ll give personalised suggestions for any challenges you or your young people are facing and where a mindful step might help.

All welcome, whether you're new to meditation or have been teaching for years. 💛

🔗https://tinyurl.com/breathkids

05/08/2025

If you had told me over 20 years ago that I would publish my first book, which would be translated into five languages and sell thousands of copies worldwide... well, quite frankly, I would not have believed you!

But that's precisely what happened. I consistently receive positive feedback about it - many see it as a guidebook for those new to meditation and want to share meditation with family.

I was delighted to receive this feedback from a mum and founder of parenting resources recently!

Signed copies available https://teachchildrenmeditation.com/product-category/books/

30/07/2025

This August I’m offering a series of free, live talks on the Insight Timer app — all designed to help you support the young people in your life (and you too!) with mindful tools and ideas to address particular challenges.

Here's what's coming up:

🧘 6 Aug @ 14:15 (BST)
Breath – The Inner Calm Button
Discover how something as simple as breath can reset a child’s nervous system - and we'll explore one of our breath tools

🧘13 Aug @ 19:30 (BST)
Helping Teens with Tech/Phones
Tips for navigating screen time mindfully - turning it into a meditation tool.

🧘 20 Aug @ 11:15 (BST)
Help with Sleep
A mindful idea for kids and teens who struggle with sleep.

Each session (30 mins) is a chance to experience, learn, and ask questions in real time. Join me live and let’s explore what really works.

Live only.

🧘‍♀️🧘 Just use the link below to find out more and secure your spot.

More info: https://teachchildrenmeditation.com/free-live-talk/

30/07/2025

Anyone else joining me on the Insight Timer for this free session? happening in 20 mins! :)

All about how to teach meditation more creatively and intuitively...
creative mindfulness - ask questions and learn

This is my first live session on Insight Timer, which will give you an insight (excuse the pun) into my Insight Timer Teaching Meditation to Children 101 course. In this live session, I'll demonstrate how you can bring curiosity and wonder to a meditation style or 'tool' that you can then share with...

29/07/2025

This quote comes from my 2nd book, Connected Kids, which was published over 10 years ago.

Now, we are embracing the idea that our young people inherit the energy DNA from the family generations that came before them.

This means that emotions and thoughts are passed on, and the frequencies at which children 'vibrate' are a result of this inheritance, combined with their developing energy in this new world.

When I help people teach their children meditation, the focus isn't just on the young person - it's also on the adults who connect with them.

As the adult meditates and heals, on a vibrational level, this also heals/balances the child's energy. And it works vice versa (child helps balance adult).

This isn't to 'blame' parents for their kids, btw. It's to show parents that we are all connected, and we are more energetically powerful than (most) of us realise.

Practice meditation, and you will find that your energy has a positive effect on you and your kids.

Teach them how to meditate, and they won't have to repeat old patterns of your ancestral history - you'll free them of that.

Meditation will help you let go of trying to be a perfect parent. That's nonsense.

You will learn to

Observe I Accept I Let go

Signed copies of my book, Connected Kids, are on sale until the end of July 2025. Check out https://teachchildrenmeditation.com/meditation-for-kids-and-teens/special-offers/

Namaste ☯

28/07/2025

Another chance to join me on Wednesday for a live event on the Insight Timer App - it's free!

Just look me up (Lorraine Murray) on the app https://insig.ht/MPAQr1ABnVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share

It's all about getting you out of a creative rut so you can produce meditations that keep your kids and teens on it!

Come along - it's free!

23/07/2025

happening in 10 mins!
My first live event in insight timer app tonight (7.25pm UK) Join me 😍. Teaching meditation to children or teens - ask questions, learn and share https://insig.ht/1p6YDFk9eVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share

This is my first live session on Insight Timer, which gives you a taste of what goes into my Insight Timer Teaching Meditation to Children 101 course. In this live session, I'll take one meditation style or 'tool' that you might want to share with young people. I'll make suggestions on how to adapt....

21/07/2025

This quote came from my first book 13 years ago, yet it is as true today as it was then.

When we use words, there is more than what we hear with our ears. There's a frequency, a vibration that resonates with the body on physical and emotional levels (as well as mentally).

This is what I love about my work. Seeing the realisation in our meditation teachers that the words they create and share meditations with young people can be less about the content and more about the energy, the frequency that resonates with them.

I believe it's why we have so much 'success' with children who can be difficult to reach. Autistic, ADHD or trauma. It's why children stay engaged with the meditations we teach in a way that they might normally lose interest.

I'll be speaking about this in my free talk/'clinic' on Insight Timer (free app) this week. Come join me if you can.

https://teachchildrenmeditation.com/free-live-talk/

16/07/2025

It's funny how you meet someone sometimes isn't it?

I met Faye Johnston at when she came to give me reflexology sessions (amazing btw).

She was training to be a Shaman and I was a little 'nervous' of that type of energy tbh - but Faye has the most beautiful energy - fairy-like, warming and funny.

We spent Monday recording a podcast for her show 'Shaman in the Garden', which will come out in the Autumn, so I'll let you know when it's released.

I discussed the origins of my work and the guiding influences that shaped it. Some of this I've never shared before!

She has the most beautiful (but massive!) garden, hens, goats, dogs... a little oasis that is well worth seeing.

I'm lucky to call her my friend.

check her out https://fayjohnstone.com/