Students Drawing After Mindfulness Exercise

This was an amazing experience demonstrating the power of mindfulness relaxation practices. I lead my mostly freshman and sophomore basic art class in a 10 minute breathing exercise. This class is generally very well behaved, but I do have a few talkers in it. After the breathing exercise for the rest of the period the students where focused and invested in their art practice. The music you hear is what we were listening to, it was not added afterwords. That's how quite they where being, this was a profound experience for me as a teacher.