BOOKS
| Making
Friends with Ourselves: Introducing Children to
Meditation
A Colouring-Workbook
Illustrated by Alixandra Marschani
Chipmunkapublishing.com
ISBN: 9781847477309
Price: £10
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This book will help to:
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improve attention, clarity & awareness
- encourage
co-operative relating, honesty & trust
- weave
more stillness into the school day
- establish
relaxation times amid holiday & weekend activities
- use
car journeys, bath-times & in-between times
creatively
- prevent
the build-up of ‘overload’ & negative
emotions
for 7-11 year olds
- Introduction
for adults explains the importance of meditation
in a child’s life
- 20
exercises, with clearly defined Purpose/Focus
- Suggestions
for Additional Activities
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ABOUT
THE ILLUSTRATOR
Alixandra Marschani began
the start of a life long interest and training
in the sacred art of iconography while living
in Paris. She has developed her own expressive
art - especially in response to meditative
practices.
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is a qualified primary teacher and former
subject co-ordinator for Religious Education
in a vibrant multi-cultural and multi-faith
inner London school, where she used meditation
techniques during circle-time to the benefit
of the children’s personal, social and
emotional development.
Alixandra
is currently studying for her MA in Early
Years Education. She has a special interest
in the relationship between creativity and
spirituality in education, and is a qualified
Forest School Leader.
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Naming: Choosing a Meaningful Name
www.hawthornpress.com/books/naming
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St.
Aldhelm’s Well, Doulting
(self-published booklet) |
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Chalice Well -
The Story of a Living Sanctuary
Contributed
chapters on Alice Buckton and Water
Copies available for purchase from the Chalice
Well website
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Articles:
Tibetan
Relaxation in California 1981
The Buddhist Quarterly
Kum Nye Tibetan Relaxation
Sun
Bear in England 1983
Resurgence
Visit of Chippewa Medicine man to UK
The
Divine Juggler of Doulting 1989
SOURCE, Journal of the Holy Wells
Adult
Literacy and the Art of Reading 1989
Shepton Mallet Journal
Various
Articles 1989
Shepton Mallet Journal
Series about unusual tourist places
Making
Your Experience Count 1989
The Visitor
Description of training course
Various
articles, reviews and interviews 1990-1992
RAFT, Journal of the Buddhist Hospice Trust
The
Looking Glass World of Adult Literacy 1991
Just Women, Somerset Women’s Magazine
“Tibetan
Book of Living and Dying” 1993
Book review in Human Potential magazine
Transforming
Christmas 1994
Chalice
“People”
Big Issue, South West
Interview with Director of Bath Self-Help Housing Association
1994
Firewalk!
Metaphor for Life 2001
Avalon Magazine
Abundance
on a Shoestring 2001
Avalon Magazine
Account of Master Prosperity Teacher Training
Healings
at Chalice Well
Chapter 4: This Enchanting Place 2006
Published by Chalice Well Trust
Sacred
Spring (Chalice Well) 2007
Somerset Life
The
Inner and Outer Ecology of Climate Change 2007
Avalon Magazine
Rising
from the Ashes
The Story of a Somerset Eco Home 2007
Green Parent
High
and Dry
Fresh Produce Journal 2007
The
Physical Yogas of Tibet 2007
Journal of the Association of Physiotherapists with
an Interest in Energy Medicine
Monsters
and Mermaids in the Choir
The Lady, December 2007
Saving
Cats in Crete
Your Cat, June 2009
One
Against Four (how Fruition greengrocer's is surviving
and thriving in Glastonbury)
Fresh Produce Journal, 22 May 2009
