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Balancing the Nervous System

August 20, 2019 by Allison Morgan

For many children, their behavior is unintentional and unplanned. Their behavior while disruptive and difficult to manage, is most often motivated purely as an attempt at communicating a need and reflecting their internal state. Our most primary need? Safety. Their external behavior is communicating a loud resounding message of, “I do not feel safe right […]

Filed Under: All Blog Posts, Calming Tools, parenting and caregiving, Social-Emotional Learning, Trauma-informed teaching Tagged With: autonomic nervous system, breathing techniques for calm, mindfulness, mindfulness in the classroom, self-awareness, self-care, self-management, self-regulation, social emotional learning, toxic stress

Understanding Your Brain

August 16, 2019 by Allison Morgan

Along with teaching educators and students the actual practices of breath, movement and mindfulness, understanding the science of what you are doing strengthens the practice as well as the degree of “buy-in.” When you begin to recognize and appreciate that YOU are able to hack into your nervous system and create real changes, it is […]

Filed Under: All Blog Posts, Ready to Learn, Therapy Tools, Uncategorized Tagged With: executive functions, mindfulness in the classroom, neuroscience, self compassion, self-regulation, triune brain

Simple Beginnings

November 12, 2018 by Allison Morgan

Sometimes we are afraid to start something new. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the commitment. Sometimes we are reluctant to start something new because we are not even sure it will be worth the time and effort. So “why bother?” In regards to mindfulness, the research is pretty clear. Improvement in behavior, mood, temperament, […]

Filed Under: All Blog Posts, Calming Tools, Meditation for you, Ready to Learn, Self-care Tagged With: mindfulmicromoment, mindfulness in the classroom, self-regulation

The Whole Learner – A Much Needed Shift in Education

June 24, 2016 by Allison Morgan

By: Erin Corcoran – Educator (8th grade English), parent, wife, Zensational Kids student Parenting took a long time. Doctors, shots, more doctors and excruciating waiting. Reality set in after spending more time figuring out how to create a child rather than how to become a mother. Adoption finally made sense. There were children, I mused, […]

Filed Under: All Blog Posts, Ready to Learn Tagged With: educational reform, mindfulness in the classroom, reflection, self-awareness, whole child, yoga for classrooms

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