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NAOMI OSAKA'S MEDITATION FOR CHILDREN IS ACTUALLY FOR ALL OF US

As an immigrant living in America who is unlearning behaviors that don’t serve
me, seeing Osaka prioritize mental health feels like permission to do the same.
Naomi Osaka attends Victoria's Secret x Naomi Osaka on Feb. 21 in Los Angeles,
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Ian Kumamoto, Guest Writer


Guest Writer

09/05/2023 10:32pm BST|Updated May 11, 2023



If you’re feeling anxious right now, stop what you’re doing immediately, get on
YouTube, and listen to Naomi Osaka’s Meditations for Children. I don’t care how
old you are. Just trust me.

On her journey to further center mental health, Osaka recently partnered with
Modern Health, a mental healthcare platform, to release a series of meditations
that are free and accessible to anyone with wifi. Although they’re technically
crafted for children, if you’re a specific type of adult like me who gets
overwhelmed by the very thought of meditating, this will do the trick.

Osaka decided to start the meditation services because of her own struggles with
anxiety, as well as the growing mental health crisis among young people in
general. According to Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, from 2016
to 2019, rates of anxiety and depression among teens grew by 24%, a number that
has likely increased even more since the pandemic.

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Personally, I think it’s really soothing to see a young woman of color be so
prominent in spreading awareness around mental health. As an immigrant living in
America who is doing their best to unlearn the idea that your career should come
before your well-being, seeing Osaka make mental health a priority feels like
permission to do the same.

For a long time, I’ve associated practices like yoga and meditation with a
certain flavor of upper-class whiteness, but the more other people of color
admit that we need to take care of our mental health, the more I think we can
all admit that it’s OK to not feel put together.

Also, there’s something that feels particularly tender and gentle about these
meditations being made for children and teens — it’s almost like the simplicity
of the language makes you remember how basic the emotions that we all share
really are. “I invite you to notice the air coming in through your nose and out
through your mouth,” she says. “This is what we call the breath. It gives our
body life and the ability to play, dance and jump around.”

We really gotta thank Naomi for this one.


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