Mindfulness & Meditation video lessons + more for educators

Look through our video library of lessons and activities for kids and adults. And be sure to also check out Susan’s YouTube channel for more.

  • Inner Kids is a fun, pragmatic approach to sharing mindfulness at home, school and in the clinic.  Through activity-based mindfulness, Inner Kids brings attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness to your daily routine.

    Inner Kids Model

  • Ready to try out some mindful games with kids? Check out these videos to help you get started.

    Mindful Games

  • Explore Susan's latest book through these quick videos, where she discusses how it draws upon diverse wisdom traditions, scientific research, and her own experiences, providing readers with pragmatic yet potent tools for navigating the complexities of our times.

    Real-world Enlightenment

  • Susan offers practical techniques and mindful approaches to cultivate resilience, well-being, and emotional intelligence in both children and adults, in these presentations that blend mindfulness practices with modern psychology in accessible and engaging ways.

    Presentations

  • Guided meditations to develop steady, flexible attention that builds our capacity to focus and quiet our minds and bodies.

    For Focuing + Quieting

  • Guided meditations to develop balance that enhances our capacity to see and reframe our situations.

    For Seeing + Reframing

  • Guided meditations to develop our capacity to speak, act, and relate to others (and ourselves) with compassion also build our capacity to care and connect.

    For Caring + Connecting

inner kids model

Inner Kids is a fun, pragmatic approach to sharing mindfulness with children and classrooms worldwide. Designed to be flexible, adaptive, and inclusive to the specific needs, cultures, and creativity of the children and adults who use it, Inner Kids is a powerful set of principles and tools. Developed by Susan Kaiser Greenland, the model brings activity-based mindfulness to children in simple ways to empower them to develop their attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness.

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Games from IK Class at Toluca Lake

A clip of an Inner Kids mindful awareness class from the documentary Spiritual Revolution produced and directed by Alan Swyer. With Gene Lushtak, Daniel Davis, Peri Doslu, Karen Eastman, and Susan Kaiser Greenland

Teaching the ABCs of Attention, Balance and Compassion: Susan Kaiser Greenland at TEDxStudioCityED

Founder of the Inner Kids program, Susan Kaiser Greenland adapted adult meditation practices for kids, seeing a marked improvement in their capacity to focus, calm themselves, and manage stress. She is also the author of The Mindful Child.
 

Kids on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Los Angeles students participating in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

Classroom Teachers on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Classroom teachers in Los Angeles who are participating in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

Parents on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Parents in Los Angeles whose children participated in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

mindful games

Ready to try out some mindful games with kids? Check out these videos to help you get started.

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Drop the Monkeys for Young Children
Drop the Monkeys for Young Children

We build a chain of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to notice thoughts and let them go.

Ice Cube Meditation
Ice Cube Meditation

The melting-ice game for older children, teens, and adults.

Thoughts, Emotions, and an Awareness Meter
Thoughts, Emotions, and an Awareness Meter

We use an awareness meter and barrel of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to work with thoughts and emotions when we meditate.

Susan demonstrates the Snow Globe Game
Susan demonstrates the Snow Globe Game

By moving our attention away from what we're thinking to an experience in the moment, our minds help our bodies settle.

Friendly Wishes & Imaginary Hugs
Friendly Wishes & Imaginary Hugs

A delightful adaptation/mash-up of two mindful games — Friendly Wishes and Imaginary Hugs.

Drop the Monkeys for Older Children and Teens!
Drop the Monkeys for Older Children and Teens!

A colorful chain of plastic monkeys demonstrates how to notice thoughts and let them go.

Meditation in a Jar
Meditation in a Jar

Watch how easy it is to settle your mind when it's busy! then, listen to this guided meditation to give it a try.

Meditation For When You’re Upset - Smell the Roses, Blow out the Candle
Meditation For When You’re Upset - Smell the Roses, Blow out the Candle

Feeling upset or annoyed? Here's a  tip for calming down anytime you feel worked up.

Pass the Cup
Pass the Cup

Using teamwork, and by paying attention to what’s happening around us, we pass a cup without spilling a drop of water.

Melting Ice
Melting Ice

We hold a cube of ice until it melts to notice the difference between a feeling and a reaction. (Game led by Gene Lushtak.)

Friendly Wishes
Friendly Wishes

We imagine that everyone is happy, safe, healthy, and living in peace to practice kindness and concentration. 

Tic-Tock
Tic-Tock

We sway from side-to-side, while chanting a rhyme, to help us become more aware of our bodies.

Rock-a-Bye
Rock-a-Bye

We pretend to rock a stuffed animal to sleep on our bellies to relax our bodies and quiet our minds.  

Balloon Arms
Balloon Arms

We practice focusing by slowly moving our arms up and down, or back and forth, in sync with each other’s movements. 

Fading Tone
Fading Tone

We listen closely to the sound of a tone as it fades away to help us relax and focus. 

real-world enlightenment

Explore Susan's latest book through these quick videos, where she discusses how it draws upon diverse wisdom traditions, scientific research, and her own experiences, providing readers with pragmatic yet potent tools for navigating the complexities of our times.

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Susan’s Books + More
Susan’s Books + More

Learn about Susan’s books and other offerings.

A Lightbulb Moment
A Lightbulb Moment

Activity-based mindfulness for adults.

Making Space, Calming Your Nervous System
Making Space, Calming Your Nervous System

Simple, effective ways to bring mindfulness into daily life.

Perspective as Vast As The Sky
Perspective as Vast As The Sky

Universal themes for a wise and compassionate life.

If A Meditation Cave Isn’t For You
If A Meditation Cave Isn’t For You

Turning the abstract into simple and understandable tools.

What is Real-World Enlightenment?
What is Real-World Enlightenment?

Embodying attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness

presentations

Susan offers practical techniques and mindful approaches to cultivate resilience, well-being, and emotional intelligence in both children and adults, in these presentations that blend mindfulness practices with modern psychology in accessible and engaging ways.

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Rituals, Routines & Body Rhythms: The Simple and Profound Impacts of When We Eat, Sleep & Play For Health Across the Lifespan

A video of my presentation at the 2019 Simms / Mann Think Tank exploring mindfulness-based ways to free yourself from emotional reactivity, patterned thought, and biased thinking.

Caring With Wisdom and Compassion - Susan talks with the Tergar Meditation Community on YouTube Live

Watch Susan talk about caring with wisdom and compassion on Tergar Meditation Community’s YouTube Live channel.

Is Helping Always Helpful? - Susan talks to Dan Harris on Ten Percent Happier Live

While some people become more selfish in times of crisis, some of us (especially parents and other caregivers) go to the opposite end of the spectrum: "helping" overdrive. Susan and Dan Harris meditate for five minutes and then talk strategies for parents and other caregivers to discern whether what they're about to say or do is more likely to be helpful or to backfire.

Everyday Freedom - Susan's Talk at Heart-Mind 2019

In the noise and confusion of modern life it’s often lost on us that while we can’t necessarily change every situation, we have the freedom to choose how we respond.

Balloon Arms, a Mindful Game to Help Kids Pay Attention

We practice focusing by slowly moving our arms up and down, or back and forth, in sync with each other’s movements.

Mindfulness helps cultivate the perspective, "We'll See" - Linda Graham talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland

Linda Graham interviews Susan Kaiser Greenland for her series, Conversations on Recovering Resilience.

Susan Kaiser Greenland, Kim Schonert-Reichl and Patricia Broderick on “Working with children”

Susan Kaiser Greenland, creator of the Inner Kids program, Kim Schonert-Reichl, lead researcher for the Hawn Foundation's MindUP program, and Patricia Broderick, creator of the Learning to BREATHE program, share a discussion about the complexities of training educators to teach mindfulness-based curricula to students, and the balance between scientific research and practical implementation, focusing on developmental and age appropriateness.

Interview with Susan Kaiser Greenland

In Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellbeing, an educational initiative from the University of Minnesota, Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child and Mindful Games talks about how to help incorporate mindfulness into your child's life.

Teaching the ABCs of Attention, Balance and Compassion: Susan Kaiser Greenland at TEDxStudioCityED

Founder of the Inner Kids program, Susan Kaiser Greenland adapted adult meditation practices for kids, seeing a marked improvement in their capacity to focus, calm themselves, and manage stress. She is also the author of The Mindful Child.
 

MiEN 2011 - Susan Kaiser Greenland Keynote

Keynote at the 2011 MiEN conference - view other videos and information about MiEN at mindfuled.org

Wisdom Teachings in the Internet Age Panel

#Mallika Chopra
#Susan Kaiser Greenland
#Tami Simon
#Mary Ann Brussat

 

Author Susan Kaiser Greenland offers tips on how to help your kids manage stress

THE MINDFUL CHILD explains how parents can teach the transformative techniques of mindful awareness to children so they can overcome stress.

Kids on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Los Angeles students participating in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

Classroom Teachers on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Classroom teachers in Los Angeles who are participating in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

Parents on Mindful Awareness

A segment from a documentary about the Inner Kids program broadcast by GoodTube.org. Parents in Los Angeles whose children participated in a school-based Inner Kids class talk about their experience.

lessons for focusing + quieting

Steady, flexible attention develops our capacity to focus and quiet our minds and bodies. The six social, emotional, & academic life skills that mindfulness builds are symbiotic, though, and as children develop in one area, they also develop in others.

lessons for seeing + reframing

Balance enhances our capacity to see and reframe our situations. The six social, emotional, & academic life skills that mindfulness builds are symbiotic, though, and as children develop in one area, they also develop in others.

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Focus on What We Have In Common

In a polarized world, we can build bridges by focusing on common themes that cut across time-tested wisdom traditions instead of focusing on our differences.

Letting Go Without Giving Up

Allowing means learning to be with what's happening when it's happening. We don't give up working to make the world a better place. We just recognize, "This is what's happening now. Nothing I can do about it right now, but maybe there's something I can do about it later."

What Seeds Will You Plant Today?

When we plant seeds of confidence, patience, and kindness, those are the qualities that grow. When we plant seeds of doubt, restlessness, and cruelty, those qualities grow instead. What seeds will you plant today?

Ice Cube Meditation

The melting-ice game for older children, teens, and adults.

Pizza Meditation

Are you game to try a pizza meditation?
You can think of anything you like in this meditation.
Except for pizza.

Thoughts, Emotions, and an Awareness Meter

We use an awareness meter and barrel of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to work with thoughts and emotions when we meditate.

Explaining the Mind-Body Connection Using a Hoberman Globe

Susan playfully explains the mind-body connection using a colorful Hoberman Globe.

A Lesson In Perspective Taking Using a Toy Bat

Sometimes one thing can look different to different people, even though it’s the same thing. Can you think of examples from your life where two or more people look at the same thing but see it from different perspectives?

A Lesson In Noticing What's The Same And What's Different Using a Handful of Toy Bears

We develop the life skills Seeing & Reframing when we notice what's the same and what's different about a handful of toy bears.

Susan demonstrates the Snow Globe Game

By moving our attention away from what we're thinking to an experience in the moment, our minds help our bodies settle.

How an Apple Can Help Kids Understand What’s Happening Now

Our past is a part of us, but we needn't get distracted by it. Nor, do we need to be preoccupied with what will happen in the future. Instead, we can enjoy the moment.

Melting Ice

We hold a cube of ice until it melts to notice the difference between a feeling and a reaction. (Game led by Gene Lushtak.)

lessons for caring + connecting

Speaking, acting, and relating to others (and ourselves) with compassion develops our capacity to care and connect. The six social, emotional, & academic life skills that mindfulness builds are symbiotic, though, and as children develop in one area, they also develop in others.

Watch
Susan demonstrates the Snow Globe Game

By moving our attention away from what we're thinking to an experience in the moment, our minds help our bodies settle.

Friendly Wishes & Imaginary Hugs

A delightful adaptation/mash-up of two mindful games — Friendly Wishes and Imaginary Hugs.

Fun House Mirrors

We sit or stand face-to-face and choose a leader. When the leader slowly moves we mirror the movement. (Game led by Annaka Harris.)

Pass the Cup

Using teamwork, and by paying attention to what’s happening around us, we pass a cup without spilling a drop of water.

Melting Ice

We hold a cube of ice until it melts to notice the difference between a feeling and a reaction. (Game led by Gene Lushtak.)

Friendly Wishes

We imagine that everyone is happy, safe, healthy, and living in peace to practice kindness and concentration. 

Rock-a-Bye

We pretend to rock a stuffed animal to sleep on our bellies to relax our bodies and quiet our minds.  

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