$12
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30 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
Sometimes, kids may need a little more help to figure out how to properly take a deep breath. When you are calm, your body is in what is known as “rest and digest” mode. Your breathing is normal, your muscles are relaxed, and your heart rate is normal. It's how you would be when you’re watching a show and relaxing When you experience a stressful event (like an unexpected dinosaur in your living room), your body automatically goes into what is known as “flight, fight or freeze” mode. Your heart rate increases, your stomach stops digestion, and your breathing becomes more shallow. The goal of calming exercises is to get yourself from “flight, fight or freeze” mode back to “rest and digest” mode. Deep breathing helps get more oxygen into your bloodstream, opening up your capillaries. It has a physical effect on your body to help you calm down and lower stress. So deep breathing does make a big difference for kids. This class I will teach them to take a deep breath properly. Here are a few of the techniques I will be teaching. BREATHING USING YOUR IMAGINATION Breathe in like a flower, breathe out like you are blowing out birthday candles. Breathe in blue sky, Breathe out gray skies. Pretend your belly is like a balloon. Breathe in and make the balloon bigger, then breathe out and make the balloon shrink. Smell the soup, cool the soup or smell the hot cocoa, cool the hot cocoa Darth Vader Breathing - Pretend you have a straw in your mouth, suck in through the straw and breathe in. Breathe out like Darth Vader. Ocean Breathing - breathe in and imagine the wave rolling in, breathe out and imagine the wave rolling out. Color breathing - Breathe in and imagine a calm, happy, positive color. Breathe out and imagine a color that represents stress, anxiety, etc. leaving your body. Soft Belly - Say to yourself “soft” as you breathe in and “belly” as you breathe out. ANIMAL BREATHING WHALE BREATH Sitting criss-cross applesauce, sit up tall and take a deep breathe in, Hold it while you count to 5 with your fingers then tilt head up to blow it out of blowhole. You can also put your hands up on top of head to create the blow hole to “blow” out. SNAKE BREATH Breathe in, pause briefly, then breathe out slowly while you make a hissing sound for as long as you can. BUNNY BREATH You can do this breathing either while sitting, or add movement to it. Sitting version - make “bunny” hands in front of chest and take quick sniffs like a bunny. Movement version - start in a squat and hop forward while taking quick bunny sniffs. Lots of fun ways to breath! BUMBLEBEE BREATH Breathe in and pretend you are smelling a flower. As you breathe out, make humming bee sound. Try different ways of making the sound - longer or shorter, high or low sounds.
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