Thank You Breath: Finding Peace and Power from the Inside Out

The breath I take to stay alive has hidden powers that help me thrive.

It supports me in all kinds of ways and brings me peace on many days.

We all have a superpower within us—the incredible ability to use our breath to energize us when we’re feeling tired, settle us down when we’re feeling overwhelmed, and help us focus when we get distracted. With a little awareness and practice, we can often change the way we feel by simply by changing how we are breathing.

To help our kids harness this power, we have to do more than tell them to “take a deep breath.” In Thank You Breath, you’ll find these very tools so kids (and their grown-ups!) can learn how to use breathing to find peace and power, even when BIG emotions take over. Complete with how-tos, breathing meditations, and tips for caregivers, this sweet and compassionate book helps us all use our breath as a lifelong practice.

Thank you Breath: Finding Peace and Power from the Inside Out offers a compassionate and gentle roadmap to introducing breathwork and mindfulness to the children in your life.

Thank you Jennifer Cohen Harper for your nuance and care and for providing children with an entry point and introduction to life’s most powerful tool: the breath.

Zahabiyah Yamasaki

author of Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion and forthcoming children's book, Your Joy is Beautiful

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Thank You Mind: Understanding My Big Feelings on Tricky Days

“The world gets confusing. There’s so much to know. I feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to go.
Then I remember that I can slow down, do one thing at a time, feel my feet on the ground”

Children experience so many feelings every day that they can become overwhelmed. In this inviting exploration of a wide range of emotions – from anger to boredom to awe – children will discover how their mind can help them make sense of their experiences.

Thank You Mind also includes meaningful tips for caregivers to help their children learn how awareness, self-compassion, and positive self-talk, can be powerful tools even on the trickiest days.

With Thank You Mind, Jenn Cohen Harper brings kids (and their adults) on another empowering journey through our daily emotional landscapes, and all the challenges and joys along the way.

Chris Willard, PSYD

Author of Breathing Makes it Better and Growing Up Mindful

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Thank You Body, Thank You Heart

“I’m grateful for a mind that knows, I’m special from my head to toes. And that all of me deserves to rest, so all of me can do my best”

Invite your child to explore the many reasons to be grateful for their own body in this engaging bedtime practice. Make this colorful and charming body-scan book a regular part of the nighttime routine, and help the children in your life establish greater self-awareness and self-compassion.

This book also includes helpful notes for caregivers, which explain how self-compassion and gratitude are powerful tools for well-being, leading to more peaceful sleep, better mornings and the cultivation of resilience for meeting life’s challenges.

Thank You Body, Thank You Heart, is a treasure of a book that helps children connect gratefully and compassionately to their bodies and minds. The loving messages and soothing illustrations make it a perfect bedtime book with a calming and affirming message.

Mona Delahooke, PhD

author of Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges

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Little Flower Yoga for Kids: A Yoga and Mindfulness Program to Help Your Child Improve Attention and Emotional Balance

Little Flower Yoga for Kids offers unique program combining yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read format. Written specifically for parents and kids, the book aims at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions—all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement.

The book details the five main components of the program: connect, breath, move, focus, and relax. Drawing on these components, Harper shares practical activities that parents can use with their children both on a daily basis and as applied to particularly challenging issues. And while this book is targeted to parents, teachers may also find it extremely useful in helping students achieve better attention and focus.

*Now available in Spanish as Pequeño yogui: Ayuda a tu hijo a mejorar la atención y a equilibrar sus emociones

Little Flower Yoga for Kids is a wonderful introduction to present-moment awareness and mindfulness through a grounded and playful yoga practice. It is an inspiring resource for children and their parents.

Sharon Salzberg

Author of Real Happiness

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Yoga & Mindfulness Practices for Children

Jennifer Cohen Harper has created simple and fun tools to help guide children through the many stressors of life. Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Activity and Coloring Book offers 50 engaging activities, coloring pages and worksheets that support health, well-being, empowerment and an improved capacity to navigate the pressures of life without becoming overwhelmed.

Divided into five elements – Connect, Breathe, Move, Focus and Relax – this book is a resource for children themselves, as well as for parents, teachers, clinicians and others interested in helping support self-awareness and increased personal power in young people.

Beautifully illustrated coloring sheets
Simple instructions for yoga and mindfulness exercises
Clear and accessible self-reflection and exploration worksheets
Reproducible sheets for the home, classroom, or theraputic setting

I love how accessible and practical this workbook is, even for people who don’t know much about yoga. The clean layout and valuable content make it a great resource for clinicians, educators, and parents. There is a great deal of science suggesting that the way we move our bodies impacts our emotions. This workbook will help kids move their bodies to build emotional regulation.

Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW

Co-Author of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline

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Yoga and Mindfulness for Children Card Deck

Jennifer Cohen Harper, Little Flower Yoga founder, author, and mindfulness and yoga expert (and parent), has created another unique resource to help children embrace their full potential.

Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck offers over 50 activities to support health, well-being, empowerment and an improved capacity to navigate the many stressors of life without becoming overwhelmed. Beautifully illustrated by children’s yoga teacher, Karen Gilmour, coupled with easy-to-read instructions.

Divided into five elements, Connect, Breathe, Move, Focus and Relax, this card deck is a comprehensive yet accessible tool kit for children themselves, as well as for parents, teachers, clinicians and others interested in helping support self-awareness and increased personal power in young people.

The Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck is a FABULOUS resource for children and their parents, teachers, coaches. Beautifully illustrated, the yoga and mindfulness practices offered are simple to do yet powerful in their impact. With clear instructions for each practice, and sensible suggestions for organizing the practices into lengthier programs, this teaching tool is a bona fide treasure.

Linda Graham, MFT

Author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being

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Yoga & Mindfulness Practices for Teens Card Deck

Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Teens Card Deck offers over 50 practices to help teens become stronger, more flexible, get better rest, manage anxiety and learn to navigate stressful situations without becoming overwhelmed.

Divided into five elements, Connect, Breathe, Move, Focus and Relax, along with partner and group practices, this card deck is comprehensive yet accessible tool kit for teens themselves, as well as for parents, teachers, clinicians, coaches and others interested in helping support self-awareness and increased personal power in young people.

Beautifully illustrated by Karen Gilmour, coupled with easy-to-read and easy-to-implement instructions.

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Mindful Chair Yoga

When yoga moves off the mat and into the chair, it’s easier to integrate into daily life. Use in the classroom, in clinical settings, at your desk, on an airplane, or anyplace you happen to be!

Mindful Chair Yoga is a powerful way to harness key benefits of the practice: become stronger, more flexible, navigate challenging situations without becoming overwhelmed, rest when you need it, and much more. Each card includes a reflection question to help engage fully with the activities.

This easy-to-use card deck contains 50+ practices that can support everyone – children, teens and adults – in living a happier, healthier life.

No one knows how to share yoga with kids better then Jennifer Cohen Harper. In their new card deck, Jennifer and Mayuri took yoga off the mat and put it in the chair. With fun activities suitable for sitting at the dinner table or at your deck in school. Mindful Chair Yoga is an important addition to every parent’s and educator’s bookshelf.

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Author of Mindful Games and The Mindful Child

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Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids & Teens

LFY founder Jennifer Cohen Harper was proud to contribute a chapter on yoga in schools to this exciting new book edited by Amy Salzman and Chris Willard.

Check out Chapter 10: Yoga: Reaching Heart and Mind through the Body.

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Best Practices for Yoga in Schools

Are you interested in offering students in your school the most effective, sustainable and inclusive yoga programming possible? Would you like to teach yoga in schools and have the support and advice of those with many years of successful experience? Have you been interested in sharing yoga with your students, but wondering how to do so safely?

Best Practices for Yoga in Schools is a guide for yoga teachers, classroom teachers, school administrators, social workers, and anyone else interested in bringing yoga to children safely, and in a just and inclusive way. By outlining suggestions and considerations across a wide variety of topics, this book will help you effectively and sustainably offer high-quality yoga programming for all children.

Based on the collective wisdom and experience of 23 contributors and four reviewers, this Best Practices Guide will support your capacity to implement meaningful school-based yoga programs, with the potential to transform the educational environment and help students thrive in a wide variety of situations. This is the first book in a series of Yoga Service Best Practice Guides produced by the Yoga Service Council and Omega Institute.

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Yoga and Resilience

“Yoga and Resilience is essential reading for any yoga teacher, regardless of their level of experience, to be able to skilfully teach yoga and facilitate a healing space to people with sexual trauma; which includes so many of our students…” – Seane Corn, co-founder of Off The Mat, Into The World and author of Revolution of the Soul

Yoga and Resilience is part of a larger series put out by the Yoga Service Council in collaboration with the Omega Institute. Jenn was a proud contributor to this book.

This book:

• Supports a holistic approach to ameliorating the impacts of traumatic stress, and specifically the impacts of sexual trauma.

• Serves as a resource to survivors, yoga teachers and practitioners, yoga service providers, trauma practitioners, and agency administrators among others.

• Presents a foundational understanding of sexual trauma and illuminates current best practices for integrating trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness practices into work with persons and systems impacted by sexual trauma.

• Explores an approach that moves beyond trauma-informed practice to a focus on resilience and universal inclusivity.

• Provides concrete tools to serve survivors better and to ensure that teachers and administrators not only seek to minimize harm but also combat sexual violence and its perpetration within yoga contexts.

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Pequeño yogui: Ayuda a tu hijo a mejorar la atención y a equilibrar sus emociones

¿No seria genial que tu hijo pudiese hacer ejercicio, divertirse y desarrollar su concentracion a la vez? A través del yoga, es posible. Esta libro, escrito por la fundadora de Little Flower Yoga, una organización co sede en Nueva York dedicada a promover la practica del yoga en la infancia y la adolescencia, contiene una guía para introducir a los niños en el fantástico mundo del yoga y el mindfulness y disfrutar de todo los beneficios que aportan estas practicas.

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