A children’s book on the RAIN meditation
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Years ago, I discovered Tara Brach’s RAIN meditation and it changed my life. Through this meditation technique, one learns a step by step guide on how to go through challenging feelings without suppressing, judging or ignoring them. Each time I practice this meditation, it profoundly transforms the understanding I have of myself, but even more importantly it gives me the tools to better understand my daughter’s emotional world. After practicing RAIN daily, I started to dream of a kid friendly way of bringing RAIN into children’s lives. What if both parents and kids were to have a compass to use for when lost in challenging emotions? What if we were taught from a young age what we could do with strong feelings? In the spirit of bringing RAIN into little one’s lives, I wrote this children’s book.
The Magic of Rain
A story for children (and their grown-ups) about how to go through feelings
written by Pinelopi Sioni and illustrated by Avital Yomdin
One day at school, Faye has a tough time with her teacher and ends up getting kicked out of class. Feeling completely misunderstood and frustrated, she sits with her grandma in the park, unable to talk about what happened. Granny Yaya steps in to help her navigate the big feelings, teaching Faye that emotions can be understood through the magic of RAIN. This delightful picture book guides readers through Tara Brach’s 21st-century version of the Buddhist meditation technique, RAIN. Using simple and enjoyable language, children (and their grown-ups) can explore this method and easily apply it in their own lives
Pinelopi Sioni is an experienced teacher of yoga, meditation, and the Alexander Technique, with a trauma-informed lens and a deep knowledge of the nervous system. In her 15-plus years of practice, she has guided countless groups in connecting with their bodies, emotions, and deeply held beliefs. Her work is grounded in Ahimsa, or non-violence, and the concept of allowing what is present to simply be. She believes that transformation happens through allowing, compassion, understanding, and seeing. Pinelopi rejects the notions of pushing through pain, forcefully changing oneself, or labeling any emotion as “bad.” She views emotions as messengers that, once welcomed and listened to, naturally move on to their next destination.
In 2013, she welcomed a wonderful and strong daughter into her life. Since then, she has been exploring ways to connect the intricate emotional worlds of children with the beauty of meditation. To her surprise, she discovered that she could effectively use a simplified version of RAIN with her daughter as early as age three when guiding her through the technique.Her dream is to help people of all ages connect with and express their emotions more easily, fostering a world with less unresolved grief and pain.
The “Magic of RAIN” offers children (and adults) a simple and potentially life-changing pathway for handling difficult emotions.
Tara Brach- Author or Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion
To find out more information about the book, please contact:
pinelopi (at) englishyogaberlin (dot) com
