Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Children
Do you want to introduce your children to body awareness and relaxation to make it easier for them to manage stress and relax both in their childhood and as they are growing up? In Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Children, the kids explore the difference between tense and relaxed muscles by first tensing a particular muscle group and then letting go of the tension. Once the children have worked their way from the feet to the head and relaxed all the muscles, there will be a couple of minutes to rest or listen to the background music before the narrator rounds off the exercise. The audiobook contains an 8-minute-version with background music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and a 10-minute-version with alternate background music by CalmTunes. The longer alternate version is good when the children have gained some experience working with the exercise or prefer to work their way through the muscles at a slower pace. The relaxation exercise is precisely the same in both versions; the only things that differ, besides the music, are the slightly longer pauses when moving through the steps and the longer time to rest at the end before rounding off. The two versions make up two different audiobook chapters, thereby making it easy to choose which one to listen to using the audio player’s chapter selection feature. When bought as an MP3, the two versions will be two separate audio files. The relaxation exercise has been narrated by Sophie Påhlsson. Tips: When it comes to smaller children, it might be a good idea to turn down the volume as they reach the ”resting section” if they start to get restless. Adults who want to introduce the relaxation exercise to their children are recommended to consider it an exercise in body awareness rather than a moment of rest. Tell the children what tensing their muscles means before trying the relaxation for the first time—saying it is like what you do when you want to show how strong your arms are will often work well. It can also be a good idea to allow the children to ask questions while performing the exercise the first few times. If you plan on using this relaxation exercise in a pre-school or school environment, it is not recommended to perform it just after a meal. Better times are when the children have been moving about, such as at the end of gym class or when they come back inside after recess.
Language: English
Written by: Sophie Påhlsson
Narrated by: Sophie Påhlsson
Background music: We begin with music by CalmTunes and move on to Divine Love by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.
Cover Image: Final design by Sophie Påhlsson using cover image from Shutterstock.
Where to Buy and Stream
This title is available both via Spotify Music and as an audiobook. I started out on Spotify Music before audiobooks were really a thing. Today, my content is mainly released as audiobooks. The reason for that is that Spotify Music is built to handle short and small audio files. 10-60-minute recordings become very large and thus often make the system crash when uploaded. It also works better when you want to release something in multiple languages ot use the audiobook format. Audiobook platforms let you filter author catalogs by language so that you can choose to see only what you actually want to listen to. Some places this title can be found are: Apple Books, Google Play, Spotify Audiobooks, Storytel, BookBeat, Nextory.
*Audible only accepts audiobooks if there is also an ebook. Since a meditation is of no benefit to anyone in a written format, there is no ebook of this title. For this reason, you will not find this product on Audible.