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Exploring Mindfulness Exercises For Kids with Guest Anandamayi Baker

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Mama Queen Zbee tells Jazzy Anza, “Your job is just to be you.”

1. Soul Care Mom Podcast’s episode with Ananda Moy Baker centers on mindfulness exercises for kids, nature, gratitude, and the children’s book Be Coming Strong. 2. Katherine Wild hosts the conversation as a mom of three, a Soul Care Mom coach, and a yoga and meditation teacher, while Ananda Moy Baker brings the perspective of an author and longtime meditation practitioner. 3. The episode asks how parents can help children stay calm, connected, and less reactive through nature, breath, and simple daily practices. 4. Baker says she grew up in a “very dysfunctional home” with “lots of raging” and found refuge in a big backyard where she watched ants, frogs, and tadpoles. 5. She describes a grandfather who introduced her to butterflies, walking sticks, and tarantulas, and she says his influence changed her life even though their contact was limited. 6. Baker says college led her to a degree in community development and race relations, but she still could not find her direction. 7. She names 1985 as the year she was brought to the Yoga Center of California and met a master yogi, Ramakrishna Nanda. 8. Baker says learning to meditate and “still the mind even a little” changed her view that life was meaningless. 9. She describes meditating in mustard fields on Palmer Mountain while bees walked across her palms, which shaped her attention to the natural world. 10. A water fountain outside the restaurant later became a lesson when bees came to drink and children screamed and flailed, prompting her to write for kids. 11. Baker says she wanted children to see bees, nature, and their own bodies in a deeper way instead of reacting with fear. 12. She explains that Be Coming Strong uses bees, a hornet, and other nature images to show how not labeling others can prevent “othering.” 13. Baker points to a scene where Jazzy Anza meets something she first sees as the “most scary thing in the world,” then learns it is “just like me.” 14. She teaches a breathing practice using a stuffed toy, a little rock, a flower, or a hand placed on the belly. 15. Her method uses a slow inhale for four counts and an exhale for four counts while the object rises and falls with the breath. 16. Baker says this practice brings attention away from “the fears, the worries, the what ifs” and back into presence, where calm and joy live. 17. The interview stays warm and conversational, with Katherine Wild sharing examples from her own children and Baker responding with stories, practical advice, and reading from the book. 18. The tone moves between personal testimony, parent coaching, and a live reading from Be Coming Strong, especially in the final section about inner worth. 19. Parents of young children who want simple mindfulness tools. 20. Listeners wanting a strict clinical or research-heavy discussion. 1. Soul Care Mom Podcast’s episode with Ananda Moy Baker centers on mindfulness exercises for kids, nature, gratitude, and the children’s book Be Coming Strong. 2. Katherine Wild hosts the conversation as a mom of three, a Soul Care Mom coach, and a yoga and meditation teacher, while Ananda Moy Baker brings the perspective of an author and longtime meditation practitioner. 3. The episode asks how parents can help children stay calm, connected, and less reactive through nature, breath, and simple daily practices. 4. Baker says she grew up in a “very dysfunctional home” with “lots of raging” and found refuge in a big backyard where she watched ants, frogs, and tadpoles. 5. She describes a grandfather who introduced her to butterflies, walking sticks, and tarantulas, and she says his influence changed her life even though their contact was limited. 6. Baker says college led her to a degree in community development and race relations, but she still could not find her direction. 7. She names 1985 as the year she was brought to the Yoga Center of California and met a master yogi, Ramakrishna Nanda. 8. Baker says learning to meditate and “still the mind even a little” changed her view that life was meaningless. 9. She describes meditating in mustard fields on Palmer Mountain while bees walked across her palms, which shaped her attention to the natural world. 10. A water fountain outside the restaurant later became a lesson when bees came to drink and children screamed and flailed, prompting her to write for kids. 11. Baker says she wanted children to see bees, nature, and their own bodies in a deeper way instead of reacting with fear. 12. She explains that Be Coming Strong uses bees, a hornet, and other nature images to show how not labeling others can prevent “othering.” 13. Baker points to a scene where Jazzy Anza meets something she first sees as the “most scary thing in the world,” then learns it is “just like me.” 14. She teaches a breathing practice using a stuffed toy, a little rock, a flower, or a hand placed on the belly. 15. Her method uses a slow inhale for four counts and an exhale for four counts while the object rises and falls with the breath. 16. Baker says this practice brings attention away from “the fears, the worries, the what ifs” and back into presence, where calm and joy live. 17. The interview stays warm and conversational, with Katherine Wild sharing examples from her own children and Baker responding with stories, practical advice, and reading from the book. 18. The tone moves between personal testimony, parent coaching, and a live reading from Be Coming Strong, especially in the final section about inner worth. 19. Parents of young children who want simple mindfulness tools. 20. Listeners wanting a strict clinical or research-heavy discussion.

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A calm, parent-friendly conversation about helping kids stay open, grounded, and less inclined to othering.

It follows a gentle conversation about how children can meet the world with less fear and more openness. The discussion reaches back to a difficult childhood, when nature offered a refuge, then moves through gratitude, mindfulness, breath work, and the simple refusal to turn…

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