Train for Life

Category: Workplace Wellness

  • Wellness Wednesday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Somatic Sensations In order to process emotions and regulate our nervous system we need to be connected to our body. This means: noticing the sensations we are experiencing; describing and sitting with them as their witness; and breathing into them and allowing them to pass…

  • Welcome December

    This month, focus on seeking out joy together.

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving is not about a huge turkey and more feast or the big consumer discounts. While these (external) things can make us happy, will they bring us long-term happiness or immediate gratification? Thanksgiving is about the quality time shared with friends and family (fur babies included), counting our blessings and being grateful for all in our lives, no…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Five-Finger Breath Start with your pointer finger resting in the middle of the cease of your other hand’s palm and wrist.  Inhale as you slowly trace out to your thumb and exhale as you slowly trace back to your starting point. Continue slowly inhaling…

  • Salad Saturday

    Salad Saturday

    Healthy Recipe of the Week Next week is Thanksgiving and the winter holidays thereafter. This time can be a beautiful and magical time of year, but also a time of rich, high calorie meals. While an occasional indulgence is okay, the saying ‘moderation is key’ holds its ground. This recipe is healthful, nutritious, and festive.…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Alternate Nostril Breathing This equalizing and balancing pranayama breathing technique, also known as Nadi Shodhana, purifies and cleanses our body’s energy channels. Here’s how! Sit comfortably with straight spine. Rest your pointer and middle fingers between your eyebrows. You will use your thumb and…

  • Welcome November

    This month, look for small things to appreciate.

  • Mindful Monday

    This week’s calming practice in The River of Mind. Let’s imagine our mind is a river and we are sitting on the riverbank.

  • Wellness Wednesday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice A – Z Distraction If we cannot fall asleep because our minds are racing or we need some distraction, we can try a brain-refocusing game. Here’s how! Select a topic and think of something that begins with each letter of the alphabet for that…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Letting Go We hold on to all kinds of things in life: people, old habits, emotions, resentment, limiting beliefs, relationships… We really want to just ‘get over it’ or ‘let it go’ but it is hard than we thought.  This practice can help demonstrate…