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Kids Mindfulness

  • Ways to increase physical activity at home

    Specialists recommend one hour of physical activity for kids each day to prevent illnesses, stimulate their physical development, increase their ability to concentrate and their school performance, as well as prevent childhood obesity. We know that children do sport at school, but how can we encourage these habits at home?
  • The 10 best yoga and mindfulness gifts for kids

    If you are thinking of giving meaningful products as gifts, inspiring toys that don't end up in a drawer and that help your child to awaken the imagination, calm down, or enjoy family time, then you have found the ideal blog. As a mom and member of the Soul Mates team I will try to recommend you the best Yoga products for kids that we’ve tested in our family.
  • My son doesn't want to go to sleep

    Children are highly susceptible to stress and are unable to disconnect, their brain is full of racing thoughts. They have a hard time letting their thoughts go and they sleep an hour less than we did at their age. Lack of sleep causes a bad mood and lack of concentration at school. 
  • Bossy, frustrated and bored kids?

    Our children get bored, frustrated, have no patience and the moment they want something they believe in the right to have it NOW.

    A common conversation that parents who want to be respectful have is whether empathising with our children is causing them to think they have the right to everything. And it is that, unfortunately, that is happening. 

  • Meet our founder: Amy Holden

    I’m Amy Holden, a psychologist, certified mindfulness instructor, and mother. I founded Soul Mates because practising yoga and mindfulness has helped me enormously in my own life and in raising my two young sons. I want to give more kids the chance to discover these amazing tools for life. 
  • How to handle going Back to School

    Facing back to school without tantrums and without stress. Above all, a lot of calm. Here comes one of the most important moments of the year: back to school, back to routine. Not all of us feel the same about it. For some parents it is horrible, for others it is a joy. Some of us feel all the feelings: a cocktail of contradictory emotions, crazy schedules are over, we get back our bedtimes but we also lose the slow pace and moments of peace. Where do you stand?