Get ready to tap into your inner child and unleash your creativity in this fun and freeing meditation. Let's take a break from our busy lives and allow ourselves to simply play and explore joy. Here is how it works… 

Step 1: Meditate! Allow your inner child to lead the way! 

Step 2: Creative journal. Sit down with your favorite markers and creative journal! Gaby's meditation will awaken your imagination and guide you through what to draw in your journal.

Step 3: Have fun! Go experience in real time what you felt guided to create in your meditation!

RESOURCES:

• Starting Your Mental Health Journey | Podcast
• 5 Self-Love Tips | YouTube 
• Self-Love Tool Kit

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• UPLIFT Series | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

When worry starts to come up, this meditation encourages you to lean into trust and imagine the best possible outcome, creating a new possibility where everyone wins. Come back to this meditation when fear tries to take over and you want to combat it by cultivating a positive and trusting mindset, and to shift your focus towards a more optimistic and peaceful way of being.


RESOURCES:

• Call On Your Inner BFF | Meditation
• Setting Goals, The Fun Way! | YouTube 
• Meet Your Inner BFF | Journal

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• Summer 4-Week Series | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

What if you started to get to know the purest version of yourself? And then, you chose to share it with the world… You might find this to be one of the most rewarding and bravest journeys you embark on, and you would be so right! For this episode, allow UPLIFT Certified Teen Teachers Adrianna, and Maggie be your guide to a deeper sense of truth and authenticity. Let them remind you that you are worthy of feeling connected to your truest self. You are allowed to get to know yourself more. And it’s okay to love who you are!

ADRIANNA & MAGGIE ALSO TALK ABOUT:

• Inner child connections.
• The joy of imagination. 
• The authenticity of childhood.
• Identifying as LGBQT+.
• When the feeling of embarrassment starts creeping in.
• Stuffing down emotions.
• Searching for praise from others.
• Trying to fit in.
• What we do when we are out of alignment.
• Hearing the inner voice of authenticity grow louder.
• Tuning into yourself for answers.

RESOURCES:

• The Class 
• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown 
• Call On Your Inner BFF Meditation 
• Meet Your Inner BFF Journal
• LGBTQ+ support OC

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

Ready to love all parts of you and discover more confidence? This meditation is here to guide you as you step into your authentic self and is suuuuper helpful before a test, presentation or any social situation. Reduce anxiety and repeat as needed as you get to know your truest most powerful self.

RESOURCES:

• Loving Your Body | Podcast
• Setting Goals, The Fun Way! | YouTube 
• Self-Love Tool Kit

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• All-Teen 2022 Celebration | Glow Flow Event | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

Why is it that we go on social media when we know it doesn’t make us feel good? In this episode, we talk about exactly that and REALLY GO THERE. Tune in as UPLIFT Teens, Alex and Jillian, dive deep into their love-hate relationships with social media. Let’s get honest about screen time, how validating it is to get likes, and what it’s like to grow up with social media. As Alex says, talking about social media addiction gets rid of its shame.

ALEX & JILLIAN ALSO TALK ABOUT:

• The “spell” of social media.
• Being on both sides of the comparison game.
• Their own evolution with social media usage.
• Moderation and balance.
• Posting honestly and authentically. 
• How they lowered their screen times.
• Social media withdrawals. 
• Caption pressure!
• Hitting that “unfollow” button.
• Our need as humans for real connection.
• Get ready for it…the good aspects of social media too.

RESOURCES:

• Starting Your Mental Health Journey & Owning Your Wellness | Part 1
• The Social Dilemma (2020)

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

What has your body been waiting to hear from you? How do you show gratitude and grow the relationship with your one, precious body? In this guided meditation, you are invited to be with your body while you create a calming state of peace within. Prepare to feel held… by your special self!

RESOURCES:

• Loving Your Body | Podcast
• 5 Self-Love Tips | YouTube 
• Self-Love Tool Kit

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

We still live in a world that cares so much about what we look like. Join UPLIFT Teen Ambassador, Kelaia & UPLIFT Mentor, Lindsey, as they illuminate their journeys toward self-love and empower us to love our beautiful bodies. In this episode, Kelaia and Lindsey get real about their experiences with diet culture, social media, and comparison. Through their stories, Kelaia and Lindsey show us the way toward a world that is supportive of all bodies.

KELAIA & LINDSEY ALSO TALK ABOUT:

• Detaching their self-worth from their weight.
• Letting go of societal pressures.
• How their relationships with their bodies have evolved through self-love.
• Healing their inner child. 
• Ditching the scales!
• The traps of dieting and how they started listening to their bodies.
• “Breaking up” with social media.
• Turning to journaling instead of social media.
• Going inward for approval and radical acceptance.

RESOURCES:

• Body Love Guided | Meditation
• Self-Love Tool Kit
• 5 Self-Love Tips | YouTube

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

What is an Inner BFF and how can they help you find peace, self-love and inspiration? Join Kate, a certified UPLIFT Teen Teacher, for a meditation to awaken your Inner BFF. Your Inner BFF is always here and always knows what to say. Through this short guided journey, you will meet your Inner BFF, strengthen your relationship and tap into inner wisdom and knowing. Return to this meditation whenever fear or doubt has a grip on you. Our Inner BFF welcomes us back into love and possibility again & again.

RESOURCES:

• Awaken Your Inner BFF
• 5 Self-Love Tips on YouTube
• Self-Love Tool Kit
  
  

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

Welcome to the UPLIFT Teen Yoga Podcast. We are so excited to dive into REAL conversations with real teens and talk about the sh#&t that matters! Join us as we talk about mental health, body image, spirituality, relationships & more. We’re so glad you’re here with us. Let’s awaken our Inner BFF and grow through what we go through, together.


UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga

This meditation has changed countless lives at UPLIFT, and we can’t wait for you to experience the magic too. The beauty of OWN IT is that you can do it anytime, anywhere. Whenever you need a reset during your day, OWN IT is there for you with all the things: self-compassion, mindfulness, visualization, gratitude & manifesting. Tap into YOU and see your life transform from the inside out.

“OWN IT is my remedy for anything and everything.” - Megan Buncher

OWN IT IS KNOWN TO HELP WITH:

• Concentration — before a test, game, homework, you name it!
• Social Anxiety — OWN IT before school or a social gathering.
• Resetting and refocusing your day — you don’t have to wait until tomorrow to have a fresh start.
• Gaining superpowers such as self-love, intuition, inner power & peace, and manifestation
• Inviting more gratitude into your daily life, which is scientifically proven to make life more enjoyable!

RESOURCES:

• Guided OWN IT on YouTube
• OWN IT Q+A on YouTube

UPLIFT COMMUNITY:

• Free Wellness Tools | UPLIFT Website
• 8 Week Series Online | Sign Up
• Instagram | UPLIFT Teen Yoga