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Tag: Stress Management

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Savor A Scent Find something that has a calming scent such as, a candle, hot chocolate, coffee beans, a flower, essential oils or moisturizer, and savor it. Here’s how! Close your eyes. Bring the object to your nose and inhale slowly. Describe the scent to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice  Safe Place Create a ‘safe place’ in your mind. You can return to this safe space any time you need to reset yourself and find a sense of peace and calm. Here’s how! Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Bring to mind…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Breathing-Rate Record This simple exercise provides us with feedback on our breathing rate which can let us know if our body is in a stress response. Let’s find out how many breaths you take per minute! Set a timer on your phone (or other…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is a moving breath sequence. Let’s bring some calming and uplifting energy into our day as we sync our breath and body with this moving-breath practice.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is experiencing mindfulness as we listen to music.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Ocean Breath Ocean breath (also called Ujjayi breathing) is a pranayama technique to help us to feel more calm and centered. Here’s how! Create a gentle constriction in your throat so that your inhale and exhale (through your nose) makes an audible sound like an…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Butterfly Calm and release tricky emotions while unlocking our hips, where so many emotions can become stuck. Here’s how! Sit on the floor and bring the soles of your feet together. Allow your knees to fall out to the sides. You may slide two…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Bridge Breathing A calming movement practice to synchronize our body and breath. Here’s how! Lie on your back with your feet flat on the floor, your knees pointing towards the ceiling, and your arms alongside your body. As you inhale, press your feet to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Legs Up The Wall All you need for this practice is a wall and your beautiful body! The benefits of this practice include: calming our mind and nervous system; supporting our lymphatic system and circulation; slowing our breathing; improving digestion; easing back aches; and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Cat Cow This beautiful movement deepens our connection to our body, syncing with our breath for emotional balance.  Here’s how! Come to an all fours or table-top position, with your hands and knees on the floor. Align your hands under your shoulders and your knees…