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