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Breath Work

Coping with Coronavirus Stress and Anxiety

March 24, 2020 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Life in the time of coronavirus. We are living through a remarkably stressful time, with global scope and interventions unlike any health crisis we have ever seen. With so many rapid changes occurring related to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are understandably feeling anxious and stressed.

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Breath Work, Emotions, Exercise, Meditation, Mindfulness, Self-care, Self-compassion, Stress Resilience Tagged With: Anxiety, coronavirus, coronavirus anxiety, coronavirus stress, stress, stress resilience

Strengthening Breath: A Weird, Twisty, and Wonderful Mindful Breathing Practice

July 19, 2017 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Welcome to my video blog this week. Today, I’ll be sharing another mindful breathing exercise. Breath practices can be a powerful way to modulate stress by helping to calm and sooth our agitated nervous system. This breath is called the strengthening breath but I call it the weird twisty breath.

Filed Under: Blog, Breath Work, Mindfulness, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: Mindful breathing

Pause As You Exhale: A Mindful Breathing Practice

February 5, 2017 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Check out this video blog with another mindful breathing practice: the “pausing as you exhale” breath. I enjoy teaching this breath for a couple of reasons. First of all, there are steps to follow as you’re breathing, and the steps help keep you anchored mindfully in the current moment.

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Breath Work, Mindfulness, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: Breath practice, breathing, Mindfulness

A Mindful Breathing Exercise: Alternate-Nostril Breathing

July 25, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Alternate nostril breathing from Jennifer Hartman. Check out the above video, my first ever video blog, where I teach you how to do alternate-nostril breathing. It sounds weird, I know, but it’s actually pretty cool. This breathing practice comes from yoga tradition and in the yoga world, it is touted to have all kinds of […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Breath Work, Meditation, Mindfulness, Wellness

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