Big Belly Breathing
🌈✨ Big Belly Breathing (BBB): Your Holistic Health Hub for Kids 🎙️
Welcome to the Big Belly Breathing Podcast with host Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely—where mindfulness meets magic! Each episode invites kids (and their grownups!) into a joyful world of guided visualizations, breathing exercises, and uplifting stories that ignite imagination and nurture well-being.
🎧 Podcast Highlights:
- Fun, interactive mindfulness and breathing activities for all ages
- Creative storytelling to inspire calm, joy, and confidence
- Relaxation techniques that support emotional balance
- Bilingual episodes in English and French = double the magic!
Rooted in the BBB motto (Breathe, Move, Eat, Rest) this podcast helps kids build emotional resilience, body awareness, and creative confidence, all while staying grounded and centered. 🌟
With 100+ FREE episodes (half in English, half in French!), there’s so much joy to explore—especially if you speak both!
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Support a woman-owned small business and unlock the exclusive sub-series, "Cheese & Burritos": a fun, lighthearted celebration of California cool and French flair. It’s mindfulness with a side of personality!
🧀🌯 “Cheese & Burritos” champions the gloriousness of the California + French lifestyle… and the joy of being your full, authentic self.
Discover even more mindfulness joy from educator and creator Vanessa, from journals to courses, meditations, and more:
Finally, if you made it this far…check out my other podcast, which I co-host, called "Valkyries, Say Less". It’s all about the newest WNBA team in San Francisco...the Golden State Valkyries. I’m not a sports analyst, but instead share player backstories, local culture, and the joy of this incredible moment for women’s sports.
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Big Belly Breathing
16.1a Visualisation Guidée à Séoul, en Corée du Sud: Thème de l'Exploration
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Voici une VISUALISATION GUIDÉE axée sur le thème de l'EXPLORATION et située à Séoul, en Corée du Sud.
Les enfants sont guidés vers un moment de détente, que ce soit en classe ou à la maison, où ils se concentrent sur leur respiration tout en écoutant une activité audio pour un moment de calme.
Ils embarquent pour un voyage et découvrent des aspects uniques de cet endroit.
La pratique de respiration de ce mois est la Respiration des Petites Étoiles .
Intro/Outro music by Jef Shadoan
Big Belly Breathing (BBB) is a bilingual audio program for kids (and the grownups who love them), founded by Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely. Featuring episodes in English and French, BBB focuses on mindfulness, health, and wellness—inviting young listeners into joyful, imaginative, and restorative practices.
As a Physical Education and meditation teacher, parent of bilingual kids, yoga instructor, social-emotional learning facilitator, and holistic health & wellness coach, Vanessa created Big Belly Breathing to help children establish daily habits that nurture both body and mind.
Healthy Habits = Happy Kids
Through each episode, children are gently guided to:
- Breathe mindfully
- Stretch their creativity
- Build emotional awareness
- Practice gratitude
- And enjoy mini-moments of deep rest that help them reset, restore, and recalibrate.
In today’s busy, screen-heavy world, BBB offers kids a chance to feel centered, grounded, and good—helping them create their own self-care rituals, routines, and wellness habits that can last a lifetime.
These tools support mental clarity, physical health, and emotional resilience, setting kids up for more joy today and as they grow into adulthood.
But it’s not just for kids!
BBB also includes special episodes designed for teens and adul...