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!
✨ Subscriber Bonus:
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
7.6a Méditation pour les adolescents et les adultes: "Paradis dans le Parkside: Visualisation guidée dans le quartier bien-aimé de San Francisco"
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Il s'agit d'une MÉDITATION GUIDÉE créée exclusivement pour nos abonnés adolescents et adultes. Parce que pourquoi les plus jeunes devraient-ils être les seuls à s'amuser avec les méditations, n'est-ce pas ?
Le voyage de ce mois-ci nous emmène à travers le quartier de Parkside à San Francisco, de Stern Grove, en descendant Taraval Street et en terminant à Ocean Beach. Profitez de cette visualisation guidée pendant que vous parcourez l'un des quartiers emblématiques de la ville. Découvrez de nouveaux endroits ou savourez la joie d'écouter vos lieux familiers.
Dans cette expérience apaisante, les auditeurs sont doucement guidés vers un moment serein, dirigeant leur attention vers le rythme de leur respiration tout en s'immergeant dans les tons apaisants de la méditation guidée. Parfait pour ces moments où vous avez besoin de vous détendre, de vous restaurer et de réinitialiser. Alors, trouvez un espace confortable, prenez une profonde inspiration, et laissez cette méditation guidée être votre compagnon vers la tranquillité.
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...