IR4K it's a project which creates mindful illustrated stories with beneficial messages for life.

It was designed to be a special space for parents and kids to share quality time with content that supports healthy and happy emotional growth. It is suitable for kids from 6 years up, though it can be enjoyed by children of all ages. 
  
The stories are brought in a child friendly way; To the traditional online illustrated format we've added narrations and music hoping this will help convey the messages even better. 

All our stories were written by a meditation teacher with years of experience working with kids. Topics and inspiration for the tales are drawn from many different cultural and spiritual traditions, while at the same time our stories are rooted in the shared universal values of goodness, kindness and generosity.
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Childhood is the time in our life in which our emotions, our belief in ourselves, our creativity and imagination and our entire inner world are shaped and developed. For this reason it is the perfect time to "sow" in our children's hearts & minds seeds of positivity and self love. Seeds that will mature and grow into tenderness, compassion and care for others and for our wondrous world, and into a solid and confident emotional base for their growth.

Hi everyone, I'm Ori Avnur the founder of IR4K and the author of most of the books you'll find on  this website. In this section, I would like to share a little bit how I got here.

Being inspired by the world of children's movies, I started my journey in the art field, I studied drawing and animation. For some years I worked as a teacher of digital arts for kids. Though I did well in life and as a passionate young artist and teacher, I felt that something important was missing. I felt that my college teachers whom I learned from, and were a point of reference in my life at that time, actually didn't have answers to the real important life questions. At that point I understood that what I've always liked so much in those creations for kids which drew me to study animation were the life messages contained in them. I realized I wanted to discover more of what life is really about and its meaning.

Soon after, I took myself and did a radical change. I quit my job and went on a long trip to the east (from where my heart has never really returned) and I studied there for many years.

When I started studying meditation in India, I immediately had glimpses of profound peace of mind and joy that I had never felt before. Though I didn't know what self realization was, it soon became clear that those glimpses were showing the way. It was a feeling of contentment without reason which came coupled with the understanding that happiness is in our nature and is independent from external circumstances or achievements. That discovery was so precious and liberating that I knew I had to keep practicing and going deeper.

My training continued in long meditation retreats in Thailand. There the initial glimpses stabilized in me and I became the naturally joyful person I had always dreamed of being.​​ Happiness was no longer dependent on that day when I would become successful in animation, or when I would finally ''make it'' in one field or another. Joy for life became simple, natural and available in the present moment, genuinely.

My love for the world of kids had never left me throughout the years, and at that moment the wish to share my experiences with young ones through storytelling returned. I felt I was ready to create again for children, now that I had something meaningful to say that could contribute to their enjoying of life. Soon after, during long solitary retreats in the North of India, I founded IR4K and I started writing and illustrating the children's books you'll find here.

I currently live in the north of Italy with my partner and together with her and other professionals, we are the team behind IR4K.