4-H Behavioral Health and Wellness

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum 5- Finger Breathing For the exercise, you’re going to stretch your hand out like a star, with your fingersspread apart and trace each finger using your other hand (as if we were tracing ourhands to make hand-turkeys) as we breathe. We will start with our thumbs and end withour…

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 count…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Triangle Breath 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…

A Virtual Meet Up Health & Wellness Ambassadors: Now Registering! What are Health & Wellness Ambassadors? Delaware 4-H Health & Wellness Ambassadors are official representatives and promoters of holistic healthy living, including fitness, nutrition, mindfulness and substance use prevention.Ultimate Goals of Health & Wellness Ambassadors:  Learn about and promote healthy lifestyle choices Create media about healthy living Community outreach &…

Do you know a teen who likes fitness, nutrition or mental health wellness? Sign-ups are OPEN NOW for the 4-H Health and Wellness Ambassadors (HAWA) Statewide Leadership Club! These monthly virtual meetings are to be packed with exciting content, games, resources, and community service and leadership opportunities for ages 13-19.  Registered in 4-H already?  To…

Breathing Techniques From Our GEM Curriculum Lazy 8 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, rollshoulders back, make sure you can breathe easily. In this exercise, you’re going toimagine a…

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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.This activity is called 7-11 Breathing. INHALE through the nose for a count of 7EXHALE through the mouth for a count of 11!(11…