Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Bumblebee Breathing 🐝 Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. For the exercise, you mayclose your eyes and gently cover your ears with your hands. INHALE through your nose for a […]
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October Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Triangle Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. For the exercise, we aregoing to image a triangle, breathing in on one side, holding for another side, and thenbreathing out for […]
September Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Lazy 8 Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor, rollshoulders back, make sure you can breathe easily. In this exercise, you’re going toimagine a #8 laying on it’s side, and trace the shape of the figure 8 while breathingdeeply. You […]
August Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum 7-11 Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. INHALE through the nose for a count of 7EXHALE through the mouth for a count of 11!(11 seconds is a long-time! Remember […]
July Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Count-to-10 Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floorand roll your shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. INHALE through the nose for a count of 1EXHALE through the mouth for a count of 2INHALE through the nose for a […]
June Newsletter
The weather has been improving – have you been plogging? Your efforts make a difference in our community! Please remember to email your poundage for a chance to be entered into our monthly $100 gift card raffle! Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Box Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, […]
April Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum 4-7-8 Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. INHALE through your nose for a count of 4HOLD for 7 secondsEXHALE through your mouth, making a whoosh sound for 8 secondsREPEAT […]
March Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Star Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floorand roll your shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. For the exercise, we are going to image a star, breathing in, holding, and breathing out for every point. Starting at any […]
February Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum 5-5-10 Breathing Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. INHALE through the nose for a count of 5HOLD for a count of 5EXHALE through the mouth for a count of 10!(10 […]
January Newsletter
Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Beach Breathing 🌊 ⛱ Get in an upright seated position with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and rollyour shoulders back, making sure you can breathe easily. Close your eyes and imaginethat you’re sitting or standing on the beach watching the waves come onto the beach,followed by […]