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Tag: Stress Management

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Heel Drops This practice relieves stress and anxiety by calming your nervous system while connecting you to the earth and your body. Here’s how! Begin standing, and allow your eyes to defocus. Rise up onto your toes and then let yourself thud back down to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Rock and Tilt Create space and emotional release in your hips with this practice. Here’s how! Sit on the ground. (You may want to sit on a folded blanket to slightly elevate your hips.) Bring the soles of your feet together to touch and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Jog and Fold This practice can help you to complete the stress response if you’ve been holding back anger or feeling anxious. Here’s how! Jog in place for one (1) minute. Stop. Inhale deeply then exhale into a forward fold. Hang like a rag…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Feeling the Breath This is a breath awareness practice, which means we do not need to change our breath in any way. We simply observe our breath as it is, without judgment. Here’s how! Bring your attention to your breath as a whole for…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Healing Breath Take a comfortable seat and get ready to learn this beautiful breath practice to compassionately connect with your body, process emotions, and dissolve pain and tension.  Here’s how! Close your eyes or lower your gaze and take a scan through your body.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…