Heidi Thompson is a pioneer in attention development in children and an expert in the field of breath awareness.
Heidi's new book, Calm Focus Joy: The Power of Breath Awareness - A Practical Guide for Adults and Children (Coldstream Books, 2012) , helps adults and children learn breath awareness, one of today's most effective focus-training and mind-calming meditation techniques.
People have been practicing breath awareness for at least 5,000 years, and recently research studies have found that breath awareness can help you:
- Improve focus and concentration
- Enhance brain functions
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Help overcome addictions
- Cultivate empathy
- Improve cognition and memory
- Relieve depression and ADHD
- Boost the immune system
With current media buzzing about the benefits of meditation, many parents, teachers, doctors, and child-care professionals want to learn how to meditate and how to teach children.
Calm Focus Joy offers an easy-to-follow Mindmastery Program that teaches children and adults breath awareness in 10 progressively challenging steps.
The comprehensive step-by-step program includes practice sessions for adults, read-aloud instructions for children, teaching tips, enlightening stories, student instructions, questions and answers, and supportive scientific research - everything needed to help the beginner and experienced learn breath awareness and then teach it to children.
Heidi wrote her book to share a simple, yet powerful, technique that is profoundly effective for achieving inner calm and mental focus. With society's growing stress, depression, illness, distraction, addictions, addictions, and social problems, it is essential that every person find a way to develop inner peace.
And, as a parent herself, Heidi understands that parents especially want to help their children grow to be strong, happy, and loving. She knows the difficulties of raising children in this modern world and believes that others share the concerns she addresses in her book and in interviews.
Book Heidi Thompson, Breath Awareness Expert to discuss....
- How breath awareness can help develop the mind and increase focus.
- How addictions start and how breath awareness can be used to overcome addictions.
- How breath awareness can help relieve stress, anxiety, and depression.
- How children benefit from doing breath awareness.
- How to do breath awareness and how to teach it to children.
- How diet plays a part in focus and attention.
- Calm Focus Joy: The Power of Breath Awareness - A Practical Guide for Adults and Children
Heidi Thompson Guest Expert Interview Credentials
- Heidi Thompson is a teacher, artist, mother, and publisher who has been practicing breath awareness for over 30 years after first learning the technique in 1982.
- She has worked as a counselor on children meditation courses.
- In the 1990's, she saw a need for attention developing curriculum and was one of the first to introduce breath awareness into B.C. public schools.
- She pioneered a program called Mindmastery, which was designed to help children of all ages and abilities. Encouraged by consistently positive outcomes and the ease of implementing Mindmastery into classrooms, Thompson compiled her lessons, stories, and instructions into a teaching manual, which evolved into her book, Calm Focus Joy.
- Thompson currently is a practicing artist, writer, and teacher who conducts introductory workshops about breath awareness.
Guest Expert Availability
By telephone from the Pacific Time Zone
In person British Columbia, either in the Okanagan or around Vancouver
Guest Expert Interview Booking Contact
Heidi Thompson
250 542-1551
Email Heidi at htcthompson @ hotmail.com
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