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Youth Meditation empowers youth, teachers and parents with practical knowledge and effective tools for managing stress,anxiety and emotions.

10/20/2025

Thank you to and for donating your 3 Degrees Guarantee to Youth Meditation. So happy you are so good at predicting the weather.😁 https://www.wbtv.com/video/2025/10/09/wbtvs-3-degree-guarantee-check-goes-youth-meditation/

08/18/2025

Lies, little kids and the truth
with Youth Meditation and YWCA Central Carolinas:

Me: “Did anyone else practice not lying?”
5th grader: “I did.”
Me: “What happened?”
Her: “My cousin and I were playing with slime and I got it on my mother’s carpet and the couch”.
Me: “So what happened?”
Her: “My mom started yelling, ‘Who was playing with slime in the house?’”
Me: “And then what?”
Her: “ I told her I did it.”
Me: “And what did she say.”
Her: “She didn’t get mad. She just made me clean it up.”
Me: “Was it appropriate that you clean it up?”
Her: “Yes.”
Me: “How did you feel about yourself.”
Her: “Really good.”

Integrity feels good. It feels like trust, trust of oneself, of others and of life itself. They just need a little encouragement to try it. When we feel good about ourselves everything is better!

07/23/2025

I told this story about what happened in Bali because it was a profound reality shift for me. To find peace, and even joy, in the midst of tragedy and crisis with 100 children and adults who had only been meditating for a week revealed a new reality: peace is available in any moment we stand in.

If we find it within us, we will find it outside of us ...meditation is the way in :o) Meditation | Youth Meditation

07/15/2025

...I could feel the tears coming as the sight of it all began to sink in. I can’t have just witnessed Wayan being widowed, those little girls can’t loose their father, my thoughts were racing because that was my story and her mother’s story. These were the conversations we had just had and this fear was front and center. Then one of the foundation leaders comes to me and says, “Angela, all of the kids are shaking and crying, can you lead us in a meditation to help everyone calm down?” I said, “Of course.” Tears would have to wait, but what could I say, what could I do that would help them? Pak Kadek (Pak is an honorary term for a male who is revered) was like a father to them. I heard my teachers voice, “breathe”. I took some deep breaths and then Kadek’s voice came back to me, “Tat tvam asi”, I am you and you are me. It wouldn’t be enough to believe this now, I had to know it as Truth...

07/14/2025

The kids started screaming and crying, volunteers and teachers were running everywhere; to get Wayan, to get a car, to get help, to do something, anything! Calling an ambulance isn’t something that one can do in this rural area. Kadek had fallen from the mango tree in a freak accident. My daughter (who was interning with the foundation) was right there and saw it all. As I saw her frantically moving the kids away from the scene, those that had seen what happened and those who wanted to see, I knew I had to look. The look on her face told me that I needed to see what she had seen if I was going to be able to help her. The man I had just been talking to was laying on his back on the pavement, his eyes open, blood and spinal fluid seeping from under his head and he wasn’t moving. It was shocking. Wayan flew by me screaming his name, sliding in beside him and holding his face in her hands…

07/13/2025

The next week, I had the opportunity to sit with Kadek again. We talked about meditation. I wanted to be sure that I was conveying this practice without the influence of American values. I had been curious to know if this would translate to another culture the way it translates to Americans. My experience at this Yayasan had already confirmed for me that this is a human practice, and helps all of us, no matter the culture. Kadek reinforced this for me with one of the last things he said to me before he fell - “Tat tvam asi.” In Sanskrit, this means “You are that”. His translation was “I am you, and you are me.” I didn’t know that he was telling me exactly what I would need to remember 20 minutes later...

07/11/2025

He explained the ceremony they hold to release the spirit from the body and bless it to move on to the afterlife. He said from a very young age most children engage with the dead body as it is taken to the home to be cleaned and cared for. He showed me pictures of the ceremonies complete with decomposing and decomposed bodies. As he told me how the soul is not there anymore, it is just a body, I wasn’t scared to look. I needed to look, it was time to understand the cycle of life in this way more than just intellectually. I was comforted…

07/10/2025

...This culture does not look kindly on widows as their fate is associated with misfortune and loss of status. Wayan said that her father’s greatest wish was that his girls be educated and her mother saw to that. Wayan and Kadek want the same for their three girls and to provide that opportunity for the children of their community, both boys and girls while relaxing gender-related oppressive traditions and keeping their generative culture very much alive.

On first meeting, a hug isn’t what usually would happen but Wayan hugged me out of compassion for a shared experience. I am really fortunate that in my own culture, I am not treated so unkind. That week, I had also sat with Kadek and he told me about his culture and how they experience and understand death...
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07/09/2025

“Tat tvam asi.”

This is one of the last things he said to me before he fell…

I met the founders my first week at the Yayasan (foundation/English School) in Tulumben, Bali. I was there to teach mindfulness and meditation. On my first day, I had the opportunity to talk to Wayan. She and her husband Kadek started this school dedicated to giving the children of this area English skills that would keep them in school, give them opportunities for college and/or jobs in the tourism industry where English is a must. Without this Yayasan, most of these children would stop their education around middle school and go to work, but with the promise of a better life they stay in school.

I asked Wayan what motivated her to do this. She told me her story and of the loss her father when she was young. Her mother had been a capable, bright, strong and somewhat culturally defiant woman in a society that demanded their women be demure and obedient to husband and tradition. When her father died, her mother wilted...read on: https://bit.ly/44QH3ra

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03/14/2024

When we see what things "should" be, we can't see what they are...and then we miss what they could become.

Who or what is the first thing that comes to your mind. Could a perspective shift help with this?

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03/11/2024

Meditation with 7th Graders:

I walk into class, the teacher walks out and the class is wild LOL.

Me (in my head): What is going on here? They know the drill, maybe they just need a minute. So I wait. I stand at the front of the class waiting for them to be ready.

10 minutes into class, they still are not ready, so I decide to stop waiting and just notice. I can tell they know I am there, it's almost like a performance. Mindfulness and meditation cannot be forced, so maybe this is what they need, just for me to be mindful, to notice them.

20 minutes and class is up. The teacher walks in and they quiet.

Me: Thank you all for allowing me to be with you today. I'll see you next week.

Class: Wait, what? You didn't do anything. We didn't have class.

Me: You weren't ready.

Class: Surprise. Can you start now?

Me: I'm sorry, I have another class to get to. Don't worry, we'll try again next week.

Lesson: I saw them, I also saw their need to be seen and not be asked to be something other. No punishment, just acceptance.

Guess who was ready for class the next week? ;O)

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03/07/2024

Meditation with 8th graders:

So I'm sharing mindfulness and meditation with a group of 8th graders. The class is really rowdy, so much so that I can't talk over them.

I've asked the teacher not to engage.

There was one girl who was listening, so I went over to that girl and just talked with her. Within a minute or two there were 10 more kids in our corner while the rest of the class did whatever they were doing. Soon we had half the class.

Then one of the rowdiest of the kids came over. He then proceeded to try to disrupt this group and the group shut him down.

When the session was over the original girl that was listening looked at me and said, "I see what you did there."

I said, "I didn't do anything, you did this." Because you were paying attention to what you needed and not to what the rest of the class wanted you to pay attention to, you set the example. You gave permission to others who wanted the same. Keep up your focus and you will achieve your goals.

It takes just one person to be an example that can cause many ripples. It takes just one moment to focus on yourself instead of focusing on the distractions.

We both learned something about self-leadership and focus.

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