Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum 4-4-8 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. For the exercise, you mayclose your eyes and gently cover your ears with your hands. INHALE through your nose for a…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Lion’s Breath 🦁 To do this breathing exercise, find a comfortable seated position. To get into the positionof the Lion, lean slightly forward and place your hands on your knees or the floor tosupport you, spreading your fingers as wide as possible. INHALE through your noseOpen your mouth wide,…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Whale Breath 🐋 For this exercise, you can sit up tall positioned crisscross applesauce somewhere onthe floor close to you. If you would like, you can also put your hands on top of your headto create the blow hole to “blow” out. (This will help expand your chest and…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Wood Chopper Breath 🪓 Standing tall with your feet flat on the floor and positioned hip-distance apart, breathenaturally and quietly. When breathing in, we are going to imagine that we are lifting theaxe over our head, before exhaling and imagining us swinging our arms down towardsour legs, as if…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Triangle Breathing We are going to take a moment to do a short breathing exercise to try and destressourselves.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…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Alternate Nostril Breathing 👃🏻 This breathing technique is best practiced in a seated pose like crisscrossapplesauce so you may find a space on the floor next to you to sit.This breathing technique has us cover one nostril at a time, alternating which nostril iscovered as we breathe in and…

Star Breathing We are going to take a moment to do a short breathing exercise to try and destressourselves. 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, weare going to image a star, breathing in,…

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 can trace the lazy 8 in…