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This story can support children with anxiety, fears, and behavioral concerns. Learning an earlyintervention skill to slow down, lends educational ways for parents and children to start makingslight changes. Reading together about Ellie and Reggie, how they learn a breathing mantra to helprelax and understand their bodies, may help a slower pace of thinking, feeling and mindfulness.Ellie Elephant and Reggie Rabbit have fun learning how to use breathing methods while they gardenin the authors bush property in NSW Australia. The mantra of 'breathing in and breathing out'repeats throughout the story with a mindfulness mediation at the completion of their adventure tohelp relax Ellie and Reggie and encompass learning for the reader.Different experiences throughout the story involve learning to watch Australian birds, listening totheir calls, while gardening and using mindful breathing exercises.Chattering and giggling, enjoying each other’s company as they play, plant succulents, and weed thegarden.Learning how to take slow breaths helps them both take time to watch, noticing nature.Ellie and Reggie identify tiredness and understand why breathing in and out technique’s help.The breathing mantra supports their ability to enjoy themselves while having fun, includingdeveloping an awareness of when to start to calm themselves, when they feel tired or overwhelmed.Focusing on their breathing, feeling their bodies relax after adventures and fun, slipping into ameditation becomes a simple task.Ellie and Reggie start embracing our local environments to bring our next generation up to changethe way we look after ourselves and how to use a breathing mantra. Stopping, watching, andlistening together, is a skill to learn. 3
