Bear Breathing 🧸 😮‍💨

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Bear Breaths 🧸😮‍💨

In winter, bears hibernate in caves, sleeping peacefully. Discover your own peace and balance with bear breathing.

Sit up tall and hold your inner bear heart on your chest or tummy, close your eyes and go inside. Take a deep breath in, preferably through your nose, breathe in for a count of five, then hold in for a count of three. Breathe out for a count of five, then hold for a count of three.

Repeat for five to seven times.

Open your eyes and notice how you feel.

Your inner bear heart needs time to relax and reset too! 💖

Here are some of Bear’s Animal friends fun relaxing breathing exercises too!

Bunny Breathing: Use a series of short, quick breaths to increase oxygen to the brain. This will allow your inner teddy bear heart and mind to connect and support your Growth Mindset.

Bumble Bee Breathing: Slow breaths and buzzing can help reduce your heart rate and release your inner teddy bear’s heart of stress level.

Lion Breathing: Use big, deep lion breaths and roaring to let your inner teddy bear heart releases any frustration or feelings of anger.

Crocodile Breathing: Use yoga positions to breathe deeply in your belly. Hold your inner teddy bear heart on your tummy whilst you do this.

Can you invent your own for other animals? 🐾

For older pupils get them to create posters for the school and allow opportunities for them to teach these techniques to the younger pupils. They will love having the responsibility and opportunity to be effective contributors to the wellbeing of their younger peers. You could also invite parents/carers etc… within your local community for the pupils to teach and share these relaxation, mediation and yoga techniques to connect and encourage community engagement.

Feeling really ambitious! Why not make it a regular event and start to extend to more complex yoga/meditation techniques. You could maybe even have a wee cuppa ☕️ or create a school cafe making time for a chat afterwards too!

The possibilities of growing your inner teddy bear hearts are as big and endless as the ability to grow your imaginations…🧸💕