Meditation and Breathwork for Stress Relief (Teen)
This is an ongoing class of meditations, relaxation, and breathwork to help your teen to relax and calm their mind and body.
Nicole Dooley (she/her)
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(143)
What's included
1 live meeting
40 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
As with all my classes, this class is a safe place to learn about meditation, breath work and mindfulness. There are no judgments and no experience is needed. Mindfulness and meditation is a personal journey and I am here to help you on that journey. Each session we would do breathing activities, gratitude practice, guided relaxations/meditations. We will begin each week with a short discussion and set an intention for our practice. Intentions are powerful statements that help us our manifestation power, mental clarity, and focus. They help with our overall state of mind and perspective. I encourage my learners to carry this intention into the rest of their day and week. We will progress into a pranayama session which means breath control or breathing exercise. These a simple breathing techniques that your learner can use to help them in their daily lives to help to bring their bodies into a state of calm and relaxation. We will then do a practice of gratitude. When we are grateful we bring abundance into our lives. So each week we will do a practice of gratitude to help your learner to appreciate and be thankful for themselves and their lives. Each week we will add notes of gratitude to a gratitude jar. So please have: * a pen/pencil * small note papers or a large sheet that you can cut up. * jar, tin or box (something to store your gratitude notes). Finishing up with a guided meditation to help them to train their mind to stay focused in the present moment. Meditation is not about stopping our thoughts but rather focusing our thoughts on the present, such as our breath. There are many benefits to breathing, mindfulness, meditation including but not limited to helping students replace stressful thoughts and anxiety with something positive and in turn, bring about a calm mind. This is class will set your teen on a journey of being mindful, self-aware, and self-compassionate. Each of these will help your teen to find who they truly should be.
Learning Goals
* To develop a positive body relationship.
* Develop healthy techniques to calm and clear the mind
* To build a strong mind-body connection to help relieve stress, anxiety,
* Build resiliency to mood fluctuations and help ward off depression.
Other Details
Supply List
Apart from a quiet and distraction free space to meditate your learner will also need for our gratitude Jar activity each week: * a pen/pencil * small note papers or a large sheet that you can cut up. * jar, tin or box (something to store your gratitude notes).
1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
There are many studies to support the use of intentions for a positive life such as "Author Lynne McTaggart uses cutting-edge research conducted at Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and other universities and laboratories to reveal that intent is capable of profoundly affecting all aspects of our lives."https://hbr.org/2013/02/the-power-of-intent
In regards to breathing and pranayama "Medical practitioners sometimes prescribe breathing-control exercises for people with stress disorders. Similarly, the practice of pranayama — controlling breath in order to shift one’s consciousness from an aroused or even frantic state to a more meditative one — is a core component of virtually all varieties of yoga."
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/03/study-discovers-how-slow-breathing-induces-tranquility.html
Gratitude can have a profound effect and "Moskowitz has been studying the impact of keeping a daily gratitude journal on stress relief and health. Practicing gratitude is part of a set of skills that her research team encourages people to practice. These skills have been shown to help some people increase their positive emotions."
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2019/03/practicing-gratitude
There are countless studies about the effect of meditation and mindfulness and "Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD sifted through nearly 19,000 meditation studies, they found 47 trials that addressed those issues and met their criteria for well-designed studies. Their findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that mindful meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and pain.
Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, a psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, says that mindfulness meditation makes perfect sense for treating anxiety. “People with anxiety have a problem dealing with distracting thoughts that have too much power,” she explains. “They can’t distinguish between a problem-solving thought and a nagging worry that has no benefit.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-may-ease-anxiety-mental-stress-201401086967
Nicole Dooley (she/her)
4.9
143reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a certified Yoga Alliance yoga teacher and Kids Yoga teacher. I am also a certified mindfulness coach and meditation guide. I love mindfulness, meditation, and yoga. I love sharing it along with all of its benefits with my students.
Please make sure to have water available and comfortable clothing that will allow movement.
Please also note: there are components of physical movement and injuries can occur if children aren't supervised. Thank you.
Reviews
Live Group Class
$12
weekly1x per week
40 min
Completed by 16 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-17
2-9 learners per class
