mindfulness & Meditation lessons + more
Access a comprehensive video library of mindfulness and meditation lessons and activities for both kids and adults. Learn about the Inner Kids model, which brings mindfulness to homes, schools, and clinics through engaging, activity-based practices, and Susan’s latest book Real-World Enlightenment. Explore presentations and guided meditations to cultivate resilience, well-being, and emotional intelligence. Visit Susan Kaiser Greenland’s YouTube channel for more resources and integrate mindfulness into your educational practices today!
Drop the Monkeys for Young Children
We build a chain of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to notice thoughts and let them go.
Making Space, Calming Your Nervous System
Simple, effective ways to bring mindfulness into daily life.
If A Meditation Cave Isn’t For You
Turning the abstract into simple and understandable tools.
What is Real-World Enlightenment?
Embodying attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness
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.
Developing Patience with Mindful Listening
One of the terrific things about mindfulness is that it helps us develop universal qualities that are with us all the time. One of those qualities is patience, and today we'll explore how mindful listening helps develop the quality of patience.
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."
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.
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?
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.
Even Obi-Wan Kenobi Feels Unsteady Sometimes
We usually think of Obi-Wan Kenobi as being cool, calm, and collected, right? A remarkable Jedi Master. But even Obi-Wan Kenobi feels unsteady sometimes. If you don't feel steady – like Obi-Wan is feeling now – mindful awareness can help you feel more grounded.
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.
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.