Ashley Eckstein says more Star Wars Mindful Matters in 2023

This spring, the Star Wars Kids launched a series of mindfulness exercise videos hosted by Ashley Eckstein. Good news for fans of the series: she announced at the recent Galaxycon 2022 Columbus that there are more on the way.

“There’s five videos that are out right now, and they’re meant to do daily, they’re meant to do whenever you need them, but we’re definitely going to be making more,” Eckstein told an attendee to her panel. “There will be additional videos coming out next year.”

Eckstein talked further about the series:

I also want to preface that they’re not just for kids, they’re for Star Wars fans of all ages. The reason we put them on the kids channel is to say to parents and teachers and nurses and doctors that these videos are safe for kids.

But they’re two to three minute videos and it combines a Star Wars lesson with a clinically based mindfulness exercise. And you know, if you tell me to do a deep breathing exercise sometimes I might do it, sometimes I might not. But if you tell me to train like a Jedi, well then I’m gonna do it absolutely.

And so as I was watching Star Wars, I realized you know all the mind like mindful lessons that you know I’ve learned about mental health, they’re all in Star Wars. And literally what we don’t talk about enough, because when we think of Jedi training we think of fighting with the lightsaber, but actually the mental lessons of being a Jedi are, I would argue, to say more important than the physical lessons than the physical training and Yoda you know Yoda teaches us. He says a Jedi must have the deepest commitment the most serious mind and so I wanted to do a a series of training videos from Star Wars where I literally take the lessons that we learn directly from Star Wars but combine them with an exercise that we can do.