Ingredients of Wellness

Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel is found on the bedside tables and bookshelves of families the world over. Although only one of the hundreds of books on mindfulness written for parents and their children, this little book with real stories and anecdotes resonates with all of us, whether or not we are […]

Teenagers 12 and up are welcome to join our new Mindful Mondays drop in Mindfulness group. Beginners and past students are welcome Reserve your place The teenage years are filled with ups and downs, and life can seem like a roll-a-coaster. In these weekly group practice sessions we will introduce participants to various mindfulness practices and activities, […]

Rome wasn’t built in a day: School Counsellors’ Perspectives of Teaching Children Mindfulness gives an authentic account of school counsellors’ journey teaching mindfulness to children for the first time. I am very proud to finally share the efforts of many months of hard work, a couple of years in the making, and a combined team effort. Thanks […]

The summer holidays are over and the new school year begins. Teenagers are fast becoming acquainted with what is in store for them at school. They are returning to friendships that may have been on-hold as they separated over the holidays, or they may be starting new ones. Changes are happening internally as well. Their brains are […]

An Autobiography in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson Chapter I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost … I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. Chapter II I walk down the same street. There […]

The summer holidays are over and the school year has begun. Teenagers are fast becoming acquainted with what is in store for them at school. They are returning to friendships that may have been on-hold as they separated over the holidays, or they may be starting new one’s. Changes are happening internally as well. Their brains […]

This week I want to share a bit about ‘flipping the lid’, the topic of the JusTme video in the last article. I think kids and teens will learn a lot from his lyrics – which you can find on the youtube page. This is brain development stuff, something parents should also know about. We’ve […]

We are well into the summer holidays in this part of the world. Because so many leave Hong Kong during the school holidays, it’s a virtual desert where I live. Although I often envy those who are able to take a month or more off at this time of year, keeping kids entertained for all […]

Year end or mid-year exams, peer and parental pressures, and the anticipation of the long summer break ahead (for those in this part of the world) can be creating stresses and anxieties in teens everywhere. At times a mindful break can be the best thing for a busy and exhausted mind, a body overcome by […]

Dr. Craig Hassed is one of an increasing number of medical professionals and academics involved in medical education, praising the benefits of mindfulness and mindbody medicine in general, and playing an instrumental role in shifting the paradigm about the mind-body connection.  “If the mind is not in balance it doesn’t matter how healthy the body […]

More people in Hong Kong are taking up the fight to keep our natural surroundings just that, natural.  We are standing up to stop the development of un-spoilt land and country parks, under pressure for affordable housing and the baffling claim that the more concrete you pour the better the economy will be.  Nevertheless research […]

There is no doubt that when you take it to the next level, the mind and the body are connected, and that when those connections are intact and in balance you have health and when they’re broken you have disease.” Esther Sternberg MD The connection of our mind-body is an important part of how we […]

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt   Possibly the most important self-discovery I’ve made since teaching young people about the mindbody connection, is that they are teaching me just as I am teaching them.  Each class, each group of children, […]

It was bound to happen and fortunately Pixar got there first and did a great job with Inside Out, a film about getting into someone’s mind to see how emotions carry on. A certain holiday favorite for the kids. Inside Out, released in Hong Kong last Thursday, is a story about 11 year-old Riley who […]

We all spend a lot of time thinking about something other than what is going on right now. Our minds wander, they wander to the past and contemplate what could have been, or what might happen in the future, and then there is the thoughts about things that may never happen at all. Apparently we […]