Indigo Dreams 3 CD Set Childrens Bedtime Stories Designed to Decrease Stress Anger and Anxiety while Increasing Self Esteem and Self Awareness Indigo Dreams
Now children can relax and learn research-based, stress management techniques with all 3 CDs in the Indigo Dreams Series, by Lori Lite.
Indigo Dreams entertains your child with 4 stories and music while introducing breathing, affirmations, visualizations, and progressive muscular relaxation. Indigo Dreams offers slightly shorter stories with female narration and forest animals.
Indigo Ocean Dreams entertains your child with 4 stories and music while introducing a different version of breathing, affirmations, visualizations, and progressive muscular relaxation. Indigo Ocean Dreams offers slightly longer stories with male narration and an ocean theme.
Indigo Dreams: Garden of Wellness offers two stories and three practice tracks. Children learn the valuable lessons of accepting others and making healthy food choices. Three relaxation practice sessions with music are presented with female narration. The bubble blowing session is particularly healthy way to get rid of hurt feelings, worries, anger, and sadness. The shield of light track is a relaxation, coping strategy for overstimulation while the affirmation track helps promote self-confidence and wellness.
All 3 CDs empower children to decrease stress, anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and other challenges while increasing self-esteem. Each 60 minute CD includes calming voices, sounds of nature, actual techniques, and an additional music sound track to further enhance your child s relaxation experience. While written for boys and girls ages 5-11 in mind, any age child can benefit from these various research based stress-management and coping strategies presented throughout these 3 CDs.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Works Miracles
My children ages 5,7 and 9 love all 3 of these CDs.The narrator of Indigo Dreams has a voice that can lull them to sleep even on the most difficult nights. They love the Ocean CD with the seachild/mermaid character and can really relate to the angry octopus. They now remind each other to take a deep breath like the octopus when they are losing their tempers. It is quite funny. All of my children are now using the techniques from the stories including positive statements like the dolphin. My oldest has been having trouble sleeping due to stress and worry about school. He constantly asks for The Garden of Wellness CD. The stories hit you in the heart and the practice tracks help him get rid of his worries and fears and anger and fall asleep quickly and soundly. I highly recommend this set.
1 Star Not pleased
I was looking for something to help my child fall asleep. I have experience with meditation and the description of these CD’s seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, they are very disappointing. They are poorly recorded as if it was done 30 years ago and the stories are way too baby-ish, they do not seem to be meant for school age children despite the pictures of school age children on the covers.
5 Stars Exactly what we needed!
I hope to put into words how transformational this CD is.
My 8 year old son has a lot of anxiety due in part to his reading disability. So whenever I introduce a new concept to him (home charter school), he immediately thinks he can’t do it, he gets extremely frustrated, and gives up before even trying. Awful. I was desperate to find something to help, and I knew something like Indigo Dreams had to exist. Lucky for us, I found it.
I downloaded it in MP3 format right away. My husband was very skeptical, but he knew we had to give it a try.
I prepared a small alcove off of our living room to create a “relaxation station”. I painted it chocolate brown, brought in a couple of live leafy plants, set a dark green cushion on the floor, along with a few coordinating pillows. I set up his CD player with headphones, and explained to my son that during school, I will set aside time whenever needed for relaxation station. He was excited to try it out.
So on the first day of school, he got overwhelmed with his phonics lesson. He got through the lesson though, knowing that he would get down time. So shortly after, off he went to relaxation station. He was sitting up on the cushion, against the pillows. Literally, ten minutes later, he was nestled in, and sound asleep.
He LOVES “The Angry Octopus” from Indigo Ocean Dreams. That is his favorite. He says that he uses his imagination to see the story. When the octopus is angry, he feels angry too. And when the octopus breathes to calm himself, he does it too. He sees colors and the characters and the environment. He loves the sounds of the ocean. He says that it relaxes him and makes him feel good. (I think hearing a male narrarator helps too, whereas my daughter would prefer a female narrarator.)
Since using relaxation station on an as needed basis, my son no longer has the outbursts as I described earlier. He still gets frustrated from time to time, but now he is becoming an eager learner! He is progressing in school like never before! There are still challenges, but this CD helped remove one of the barriers, which was anger/frustration. Awesome!
I have recommended this to elementary teachers, special education teachers, and physical and occupational therapists. I have recommended it to moms of kids who are perfectionists or have anxiety or anger issues or are highly sensitive.
I am so glad I found this product. Even my skeptical husband admitted to its success. 
My 6 year old daughter also enjoys this. She especially likes the breathing exercises. Although she does not share the same challenges as her brother, she still does benefit from the stories.
I would highly recommend this to parents, teachers, therapists, and specialists who work with children.
5 Stars Helps my daughter sleep and relax
My daughter loves these tapes. She has a hard time winding down and getting to sleep. At first she said she thought they were a little boring, but I explained that bedtime tapes aren’t supposed to be fast-paced and exciting. Within a week she was asking for them every night. She started telling me what she was learning from them: how to relax, what to do if she felt mad during the day, focusing on what makes her happy and content, etc… Not only have they helped her fall asleep, I really think they have helped her deal with her emotions during the day as well.
5 Stars stories of reassurance and peace
My family loves the Indigo Dreams stories by Lori Lite, for we often listen to her cds to help the children relax and fall asleep. The stories are very reassuring, calming and sweet. Sometimes, I get so relaxed that I fall asleep, too.
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