As you lead this Time for All Ages, allow each [pause] interval to be as long or short as your listeners need. It might be five seconds long, or as long as ten seconds.

If you feel comfortable, close your eyes or lower your gaze and gather yourself at your center.

[pause]

Take a deep breath, and with that breath, allow peace and calm to fill your center.

[pause]

As you continue breathing, feel an immense strength filling your body. Keep breathing, and imagine that you are a bear who is just waking up from a long winter of hibernation.

[pause]

Imagine that you are greeting the world for the first time. Slowly turn your head from side to side. Take a moment to use all of your senses to experience this day and the world around you.

[pause]

Now move your body as if you are just waking up from that long winter of hibernating. Stretch your limbs. Hunch your back and then drop your shoulders. Breath into those spaces that feel tight and stiff.

[pause]

Now find your voice and from the base of your stomach give a low deep growl. Feel it rise up into your mouth. Let it out. Feel the strength and energy within you. [If desired, offer another opportunity to growl.] 
Be the bear.

[pause]

Take a deep breath, and come back to the here and now. Touch your center. [pause] May you keep that sense of bear energy with you: the sense of curiosity, calmness, and strength. Just like the bear in spring, we are awakened and renewed.