ISABEL ORTIZ
Certified AMT Mindfulness Teacher
Sometimes as families we don’t understand our kids and partner and we struggle so much in every day trying to cope with all the responsibilities that we encounter, but deep inside of us we desire to have a harmonious family life, but still we experience situations of frustration, sadness and madness because we cant control our emotions and we react in an automatic response, not thinking just reacting, we don’t take a space for ourselves to calm down and causing a negative reaction in our loved ones. Do you ever experience these situations?
Welcome to Mindfulness for kids and parents. Mindfulness training is about being present, to live this moment, now, with conscious, non-judgmental awareness. Being Conscious of our own feelings, thoughts, bodily symptoms, and our automatic responses to them. Is about being open to all these sensations with a friendly, conscious and open attitude with ourselves and others. To be present without ignoring, pushing away, or being dragged along with strong emotions or anxious thoughts. By being consciously present, your behavior will change step by step. With a friendly attitude towards yourself and others.
Hello my name is Isabel
I can help you and your family to build a strong bond of understanding, connection, love and support in everyday life. Starting first with ourselves and then spreading this learning to our loved ones.
Sometimes we just want to communicate properly with our kids and we desire to have the same response back. But we forget as a parent, that it’s important to lead by example. So it’s to be expected that many parents rarely ask themselves, “Am I setting a good example for my children?”. Working with me I can help you to reconnect with yourself and with others by understanding what it is to be a Mindful parent and apply this into your daily life and also helping your kids during this process. Practicing Mindfulness is a mental and physical technique you can use for everyday life, where it helps you and your kids to acknowledge, accept and cope with painful or intrusive thoughts, feelings and sensations. Through Mindfulness the rewards are priceless, you will always find mindfulness as a fantastic tool for the rest of your life.
If you want to know more about me, here it is my story
Six years ago my mother passed the way and at that time I had 3 small and active kids and one of them my son the one in the middle was behaving in a very special way, he was more sensitive than my other 2 daughters, he reacted in a more emotional way when we experienced different situations or activities that we usually do as a family, he took it more seriously, for example if he was not allowed to do something or when he felt or lost any of his toys, for him had a big impact, and took him to a deep level of distress.
I was feeling confused, if I was doing a good job as a mother or not and I started investigating how can I calm him down and understand him better from my side as a mother, so he can overcome those emotional situations and put him back in track in a more relax way.
In that journey I discovered mindfulness and I decided to become a Mindfulness teacher for kids, teenagers, and parents.
But there were some conditions I had to take a MBSR (Mindfulness Based stress Reduction) course and a Silence retreat to be part of the Academy for Mindful Teaching (AMT).
I didn’t understand why I had to do that if I’m ok nothing is wrong with me, but I was clear about my purpose why I was there and I said to myself I had to do it for my family and for my beautiful son.
I had to discover the technique of how I can made him feel better and also me as a mother know how to do it and help him to overcome those situations.
Those 2 requirements MBSR and Silence Retreat, changed my life entirely, it took me to a higher level of transformation inside my family life where I discovered that it was not only about my kid it was about my couple and I how we interact and behave in those situations and took me also to understand that the way we communicated with him was causing him distress.
During my training I met beautiful families that helped to do my final practice and I discovered that dealing with kids and mindfulness it was essential that the parents were fully involved in the process in a gentle and understanding manner.
I realized during this process that I want it to understand more why the kids they were behaving in certain way and still the parents they were struggling, I want it to go behind the scenes, and look in a deeply level their behaviors, beliefs, and habits that they had and see the real essence of how important it is to know the cause and root of those behaviors.
So, in that journey I discovered RTT Rapid Transformational Therapy where I felt fascinated how this hybrid therapy was able to transform those behaviors, beliefs, habits and install new ones and let us become free by understanding our why, why we do what we do and behave the way we do, helping us to dive into a higher level of understanding of ourselves and understanding of how we interact with others.
I just can say that everything mirrors in our lives and in our children, we are never late for taking action and rescue what we already built in order to continue in a daily transformation with ourselves and with the future generations.
“Connecting with your inner self can bring you so much joy, happiness and understanding of your own purpose in life, follow and trust yourself in every step you take and always look at you with a compassionate and kindness attitude.”
– Isabel–
Frequently Asked Questions
The Eline Snel Method trains the attention. This is also known as mindfulness. The eight-to-ten week course takes one hour a week on average and teaches children to stabilise, focus and shift their attention with a friendly, alert attitude. They are familiarised with their inner world without having to pass judgement on what they (or others) think, feel or experience. They learn how to deal with tranquillity and turmoil when it arises. How to acknowledge ‘challenging thoughts and feelings’ without suppressing them or being absorbed by them, and simply give them friendly attention instead. And above all: they are taught to be kind to themselves and others.
Eline Snel was born in 1954. As the founder of the Academy for Mindful Teaching (AMT) in Holland, she developed its courses and training manuals, provides training in Mindfulness and compassion, and is the author of the international bestseller Sitting Still Like a Frog and other books.
For more information About Eline Snel – Mindfulness | Eline Snel
Because as a family we are a team, and as team we have to support, love and care about the others, working as a group we will reach the goal of having a harmonious family life with no resistance. Everything flows better, we communicate and understand better. Mindful parenting is about breaking this cycle by becoming aware of these stressful situations and unpleasant emotions so you can pause before reacting. Essentially, mindful parenting is about presence and pause. It’s about shifting away from reactivity so you can respond thoughtfully in each moment, and it’s about helping your kids do the same.
In adults, mindfulness training has been shown to positively influence important regions of the brain having to do with executive functioning, including impulse control and decision making, perspective taking, learning and memory, emotion regulation, and a sense of connectedness with one’s self and others. Under intense and unremitting stress, all these brain functions rapidly degrade. This can impair wise decision making, self-confidence and the capacity to beneficially deal with strong emotions.
There is increasing evidence that this is even more relevant for children, whose nervous system and brains are still in the proves of developing and are even more sensitive to the negative effects of stress. Everyone wants each child to experience that he or she is perfectly all right. It is true that there is still a lot to learn and there is sometimes something to “polish up”, but above all that the child will be able to develop a deep sense of inner well-being and come home to himself. Regardless of the circumstances. Mindfulness appears to provide valuable and lifelong support in this process.
For parents the course is 8 weeks, and we meet once a week, via online in total 8 sessions of 60 to 90 minutes. For adolescents the course is 10 weeks, and we meet once a week, via online or in person in total 10 sessions of 60 to 90 minutes. For kids the course is 8 weeks, and we meet once a week, via online or in person in total 8 sessions of 45 to 60 minutes.
Expect to learn how to understand yourself better in a kind and compassionate way and also to embark with your kids in a infinitive and long lasting journey full of love, understanding and happiness.
- Helps foster a healthy parent-child relationship with fewer conflicts and stronger connections.
- Increases children’s and teens’ adjustment and reduces problematic behaviors, both internalizing (turning problems inward as seen anxiety, depression, withdrawal, and isolation) and externalizing (turning problems outward, such as acting out, having tantrums, hitting, and exhibiting open defiance.
- Improves communication skills between family members.
- Decreases feelings of anxiety and stress for moms, dads and kids alike.
- Keeps parents connected to their parenting goals and visions for their family by helping them be present and pause, thus reducing emotional reactivity.
“Inside every human beats a heart in a heart,
that’s searching for love, connection,
and acceptance of who we essentially are.”
– Eline Snel–
Benefits of working with Isabel
I can provide you all the needed support during your process, offering you the following.
Mindfulness package for 1 family member
- A deep understanding and consultation online of Mindfulness where we talk and plan all your steps to follow as your road map.
- 8 Full sessions of 1 hour to 1.30 hour for parent and adolescent and 60 minutes for kid.
- 1 full custom audio for compassionate parent.
- 3 Follow ups of 15 minutes after session 3 / 6 /8 .
- Email support for 15 days.
- Free online introduction and understanding of Mindfulness to a family member.
- 1 Free audio recording from meditations from Eline Snel, with your name in the audio, so when you hear it, feels specially made for you. Be aware that if you have the Book and the app of Eline Snel you don’t need this.
Mindfulness package for 2 family members
- A deep understanding and consultation online of Mindfulness where we talk and plan all your steps to follow as your road map.
- 8 Full sessions of 1 hour to 1.30 hour for parent and adolescent and 60 minutes for kid.
- 2 full custom audio for team family.
- 3 Follow ups of 15 minutes after session 3 / 6 /8 .
- Email support for 20 days.
- Free online introduction and understanding of Mindfulness to two family members.
- 1 Free audio recording from meditations from Eline Snel, with your name in the audio, so when you hear it, feels specially made for you. Be aware that if you have the Book and the app of Eline Snel you don’t need this.
Mindfulness package for 3 family members
- A deep understanding and consultation online of Mindfulness where we talk and plan all your steps to follow as your road map.
- 8 Full sessions of 1 hour to 1.30 hour for parent and adolescent and 60 minutes for kid.
- 2 full custom audio for playful parent and loving parent.
- 3 Follow ups of 25 minutes after sessions 3 / 6 /8.
- Email support for 25 days.
- Free online introduction and understanding of Mindfulness to three family members.
- 1 Free audio recording from meditations from Eline Snel, with your name in the audio, so when you hear it, feels specially made for you. Be aware that if you have the Book and the app of Eline Snel you don’t need this.
Mindfulness package for 4 family members
- A deep understanding and consultation online of Mindfulness where we talk and plan all your steps to follow as your road map.
- 8 Full sessions of 1 hour to 1.30 hour for parent and adolescent and 60 minutes for kid.
- 3 full custom audio for playful parent/ loving parent/team family
- 3 Follow ups of 30 minutes after session 3 / 6 /8 .
- Free online introduction and understanding of Mindfulness to two family members
- 1 Free audio recording from meditations from Eline Snel, with your name in the audio, so when you hear it, feels specially made for you. Be aware that if you have the Book and the app of Eline Snel you don’t need this.
Mindfulness package for 5 family members
- A deep understanding and consultation online of Mindfulness where we talk and plan all your steps to follow as your road map.
- 8 Full sessions of 1 hour to 1.30 hour for parent and adolescent and 60 minutes for kid.
- 4 full custom audio for playful parent/ loving parent/team family/ Kindness .
- 3 Follow ups of 35 minutes after session 3 / 6 /8 .
- Email support for 35 days.
- Free online introduction and understanding of Mindfulness and RTT to two family members.
- 1 Free audio recording from meditations from Eline Snel, with your name in the audio, so when you hear it, feels specially made for you. Be aware that if you have the Book and the app of Eline Snel you don’t need this.
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Evidence of how mindfulness helped families
When I told him that a person would come home to teach him some techniques to help him overcome difficult situations, and that it would be with his little sister, he was thrilled. He felt so comfortable to be at home and together with his sister. Both were also extremely happy to meet someone from the same culture as theirs. I have to say that the city where we live is not very international and having Isabel to talk in Spanish to my children was a luxury.
We finished with the course, and I have seen great improvements already after the first class. The tools she taught us were very helpful and easy to apply in our hectic life. We have learnt to be present with our breathing, by practicing yoga and painting mandalas among other activities. We are more open to talk about our feelings, have compassion and connect with each other.
Our relationship with the children and between me and my husband has also improved. Our kids can cope better with difficult situations, they are more relaxed in general. As an intercultural family with two different cultures, two very demanding jobs and small children, we can go through many stressing situations, and the course has helped us to accept the way we are and be grateful for who we are and for the great things that we have in our lives.
One of these things is Isabel who has been a great guide for us. She was always listening carefully to our problems, she showed compassion and empathy for us. We connected greatly and I could definitely recommend her to any other multicultural family in Denmark.
Through the course I practiced some meditations where I learned to scan my body and to connect with it through my breathing and then to understand how I feel with myself and to connect with my daily day, like what I’m living right now and to understand what surrounds me.
It helped me deeply in getting better with my concentration when I’m studying or learning something new at school, I am more focused. I have a better approach in what I want to succeed, it is clearer to see my goals and dreams. Furthermore, helped me to control a lot my anxiety and to be more open and grateful with life.
I want to say thank you Isabel I’m so grateful for teaching me and my mother to improve our communication and to understand each other better, we had many issues before that they were not positive for both of us, but we learned to be better people.
I learned that being a strict parent, like raising the voice, shout to my son or using very negative words towards him when we were having a discussion was the worst I ever did.
That had a big and negative effect on him. Instead of that I learned to calm down, slow down before reacting in automatic mode and open myself to listen to him before reacting and answering with negative comments.
When I learned this process, I calmed down and I notice that my son reacted the same way as me letting me get closer to him and he opened in a way that he showed me that he can trust me as his mother.
Thank you, Isabel, for arriving to my son’s life and to mine, I had the opportunity of being a better person with my son and with myself, for teaching me to love me deeply as a woman and as a mother.
After the eight weeks, I noticed that Benjamin is more aware of his body sensations, and he is more consciously present.
Thank you so much for such wonderful experience.
When I started in this process, I began to identify the different sensations and started to be aware that certain actions were causing it and I noticed how this influenced my well-being.
This has made it easier for me to identify what situations make me uncomfortable and I have also learned how to react, but also to allow myself to feel and to be aware of even the minimum sensation and emotion. Thank you, Isabel, for this course.
When I started with mindfulness it was a tool of great help, that it taught me to remain calm and to take a space between so much chaos that I lived, these pauses helped me to act with more tranquility and this made me have more clarity to make decisions.
I learned to be more aware of many details that perhaps I was letting go and that were affecting me, I lived a great change of perceiving and living life with greater tranquility. With my daughter Karen our relationship is more affectionate and friendlier.
Thank you Isabel for your help and for passing that knowledge on to us, it brought us wellbeing.
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