Mindfulness Teacher
Susan Kaiser Greenland
Mindfulness teacher and author for children, families, and educators
- Mindfulness for children and teens
- Activity-based and game-based mindfulness
- Secular mindfulness in schools
- Meditation instruction for families
- Mindfulness for parents and educators
- Attention, balance, and compassion practices
Susan Kaiser Greenland is an author and teacher of mindfulness and meditation for children, teens, parents, and educators, and a former corporate attorney who turned to contemplative practice and teaching. She is widely recognized as a pioneer of activity-based, secular mindfulness for young people, an approach she developed through the Inner Kids program she co-founded with her husband, Seth Greenland. She is perhaps best known for her books The Mindful Child and Mindful Games, which translate mindfulness and meditation into age-appropriate practices for families and classrooms. Below you'll find Susan Kaiser Greenland's practices and teachings shared on Mindfulness Exercises.
Before becoming a mindfulness educator, Susan Kaiser Greenland worked as a corporate lawyer admitted to practice in New York and California. She and her husband, Seth Greenland, founded the InnerKids Foundation, a not-for-profit that taught secular mindfulness in schools and community-based programs in the greater Los Angeles area, and her Inner Kids model became associated with mindfulness research at UCLA. She has also worked alongside clinicians and researchers, including involvement with the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and university research on mindfulness in education.
Kaiser Greenland is the author of The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate (2010) and Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families (2016), the latter accompanied by a companion deck, the Mindful Games Activity Cards. Her more recent book, Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life (2024), brings her accessible, practice-based approach to a general adult audience.
Her teaching is built around playful, developmentally appropriate activities, games, and guided practices designed to make attention, awareness, and compassion approachable for young people and the adults who care for them. Through her books, recordings, and trainings, she has helped parents, caregivers, and teachers introduce mindfulness and meditation in everyday settings, framing core skills in plain, relatable language.