Breathing and Relaxation Techniques

Breathing and Relaxation Exercise

• Trust yourself and the process.
• Start by focusing on your head. Take a deep breath in and out.
• As you breathe out, visualize relaxing your forehead.
• Continue with deep breaths, focusing on relaxing different parts of your face, one at a time:
  • Eyebrows
  • Nose
  • Eyes
  • Jaw and cheekbones

Body Scan

• Move down the body, focusing on relaxing each part:
  • Neck: Acknowledge and hold space for any tension.
  • Shoulders
  • Belly
  • Hips
  • Legs
  • Calves
  • Ankles
  • Feet
• When you feel ready, open your eyes.
• Check-in with your body: Assess how you're feeling on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being amazing, 1 being meh).

Short Exercise

• If you don't have time for the full body scan, you can do three deep breaths (or however many you need).
• Focus on deep breaths in and out.

Somatic Exercises

• Going into somatic exercies