Experience art, writing, research, nature play, social sharing, theater, and even some math and science-inspired projects through a path of mystical fun!
- Create their own Avatar, their mythical true self form and learn how to Embody it.
- Create their Inner Sanctuary – a safe space they can go to recharge, calm themselves, nourish themselves, and regulate their emotions.
- Create Allies to support them in their journey through this Realm and the others.
- Discover and focus on their superpowers.
- Learn how to ground and stabilize their energy with their Biosuit.
- Play with the 4 elements to expand their potential.
- & much more!
HIGHLY ENGAGING
Your students will be so excited each lesson (and likely you will be too!)
Our creative adventure experiences inspire new levels of engagement, helping students unlock their imagination and access their unique gifts.
TONS OF CONTENT
At over 80 pages, our curriculum can easily be a fun side project or the basis of an entire years worth of education!
EASY TO IMPLEMENT
Get up and running with minimal prep time, thanks to our quick training videos, comprehensive lesson plan, and all the support you need.
Our audio meditations are like a story where the student is their own hero in the journey. Simply press play and let their imagination take it from there. Then pick any of our engaging activities for your children to do.
Flexible Technology Use
We know every child and school’s use of technology varies, so we made the program flexible, too. The meditations are all audio-based and simply accessed via our website library. There are training videos for the adult facilitator but no videos for the children to use. They are engaging their inner imagination systems!
The additional activities in the curriculum can all be done by hand and some can be done on the computer if chosen too (i.e. research online or write papers on the computer), but it’s totally optional for your child! Everything can be done the old-fashioned hand and paper way too. Your choice!
HIGHLY ENGAGING
Your students will be so excited each lesson (and likely you will be too!)
Our creative adventure experiences inspire new levels of engagement, helping students unlock their imagination and access their unique gifts.
EASY TO IMPLEMENT
Get up and running with minimal prep time, thanks to our quick training videos, comprehensive lesson plan, and all the support you need.
TONS OF CONTENT
At over 80 pages, our curriculum can easily be a fun side project or the basis of an entire years worth of education!
What is Inner Realms Journey?
Inner Realms Journey is a unique new program combining guided meditation, mythology, and fantasy-style gaming that takes the participants on their own “Hero’s Journey.”
Using audio-guided meditations (accessed via the library on our website or app), participants will create their Avatar character, then explore fantastical realms across the “Cosmic Tree of Life”. In their journeys, participants will make allies, gather treasures, overcome obstacles and discover the depths of their imagination. Through Inner Realms Journey, the participants become the hero within their own story. At the same time, they learn what their superpowers are, how to better connect with the world around them, understand their potential, and learn tools to help them stay focused and get excited about life.
Perfect for children, Inner Realms Journey can provide small and large groups with a foundation based on immersive learning, which inspires creative thinking, emotional intelligence, and positive interactions. Children will love to do research, writing, art, history, science, theater, and other projects that are connected to their personal experiences of the Inner Realms.
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Meditation Teasers
Listen to some sample clips of our meditations!
The Quest Begins
Meditation Teaser
Unlocking Your Avatar
Meditation Teaser
Create Your Inner Sanctuary
Meditation Teaser
Elemental Stones Activation
Meditation Journey Teaser
Ice Realm
Meditation Journey Teaser
Meditation Teasers
Listen to some sample clips of our meditations!
The Quest Begins
Meditation Teaser
Unlocking Your Avatar
Meditation Teaser
Create Your Inner Sanctuary
Meditation Teaser
Elemental Stones Activation
Meditation Journey Teaser
Ice Realm
Meditation Journey Teaser
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Inner Realms Journey is perfect for:
Each lesson has a meditation (12-30 minutes) for the children to listen to. Once the meditation is completed, we have a wide selection of activities you can have the children complete, each inspired by their experiences and creations within the meditation. For example, after listening to the “Unlock Your Avatar” journey, we offer art, writing, research, theater, and many other projects related to what was created during that audio journey. The depth of the curriculum is highly customizable to your setting and can be used as little as an hour a week, or be used extensively as a foundation for schooling. Our extensive collection of activities empowers kids and brings a new level of excitement and engagement to education.
Many think of meditation as an activity for adults. However, it can also provide major benefits for children as well. Studies have shown that meditation effectively enhances adolescents’ emotional regulation and well-being (Advances in School Mental Health Journal), helps students perform better academically (International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research), and has been linked to emotional intelligence in teenagers (Frontiers in Psychology). Meditation has also been attributed to enhancing athletic performance (many pro athletes include meditation in their fitness regimen), strengthening immune systems (Perspectives on Psychological Science), and helping people cope with pain (Fadel Zeidan, PhD – lead author of study). Meditation benefits us in all facets of our lives, from our emotional to our physical well-being.
Inner Realms Journey takes meditation to a new level by implementing a broad spectrum of meditation techniques repackaged into a fun, exciting, and engaging experience that’s easy for anyone to use. Inner Realms Journey provides an invaluable tool for children (and adults!), assisting them academically, creatively, emotionally, and physically. Our integrated and multidisciplinary curriculum allows the benefits of these meditations to have an even further reaching effect in academics and creative arts.
- We continue to work on making our curriculum adaptable to as many different learning environments as possible. If you have any special needs, please reach out to us.
- Educators can play the children audio-guided meditations from the website (through speakers or headphones) without the need for the children to have access to it or use the website themselves.
- All of the activities in our lesson plan can be done without the use of technology, if preferred. Some projects can utilize technology if desired (such as research, creating writings, or digital design), but numerous options do not.
- Our activities are very flexible, and you can easily implement them into any classroom environment and on any budget.
- Our activities can be done in a classroom as well as outdoors, depending on your setting.
- While the website has some kid friendly imagery, and we do have some creative imagery for inspiration, we know some schools have different specifications as to what is shown to children. None of the imagery in our website or content is required to make use of the meditation or activities. It is purely optional.
Professional Reviews
“Students in my classroom have become more empathetic, sharing stories of their journeys and artwork of their adventures. I’ve seen huge boost in imagination, creative expression, project engagement, and self confidence. My students can’t wait to do the next meditation journey. Many parents have also reported that their kids spend more time drawing and writing and less time playing video games.”
– Emma Davis, Teacher
“Inner Realms has brought so much depth and joy to my tutoring sessions. My students love listening and creating their own worlds. I have noticed so much creativity and trust in their intuition as they have moved through the meditations. It brought up so many amazing opportunities to practice defining new vocabulary words as students could compare what they thought they saw when the word was used in the context of the meditation to what the textbook definition of the word was.”
– Samantha Beikman
CEO/Founder of Majestic Unicorn Tutoring
“It’s a brilliant and creative approach that uses grounding techniques, breath work, reframing skills, visualization experiences, and others to present meditation and general self-care in a fun imaginative way. The applications are endless. I can really see this being introduced to any age group and it having productive results. “
– Jennifer Keith, LPC (Therapist)
“Inner Realms Journey will guide you in transforming negative thoughts and self-limiting beliefs into positive and empowering cognitions. The guided meditations work to retrain your brain, improving self-awareness, memory, learning, and attention. Research has found that a thickening of the prefrontal cortex—the brain region that is responsible for awareness, focus, and decision-making—occurs when you practice guided meditation. The benefit of Inner Realms Journey is that guided meditation becomes a fun and creative process. “
– Carolina Estevez, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist
Curriculum Includes Access to:
Preview of the 12 Lessons:
About the 12 Part Plan
Our curriculum was developed by IRJ Founder Aaron and Kids Director, Emma, who has over 20 years of experience in public school education. In this package, you’ll learn the techniques and setup needed to run the IRJ Kids program with our easy-to-follow training videos. You’ll have access to the 60+ page activity book with ideas for art, writing, vocabulary, science, math, history, research, theater, nature activities, and therapeutic use. These activities are inspired by the audio journeys. You’ll also find a simple game system to bring even more play, creative development, and engagement to the experience. The program is designed as a flexible 12-part lesson plan. It can be run as little as an hour a week or as the foundation for a large portion of a child’s education. The experience is also a fantastic way for the whole family to improve synergy, connection, and understanding.
Purchase below and set up your account. After your purchase is completed, you’ll be redirected to a page with your videos, activity book, and the meditation journeys!
Project Gallery
Here are some project examples from some of our past Kid’s programs.
