Calm Down Brain Break Breathing Exercise Cards PDF
Calm Down Brain Break Breathing Exercise Cards PDF
Find a partner and sit on the floor back to back. Sit Lie on the floor and place a small stuffed animal
tall and close your eyes if you want to. Decide who on your stomach. Breathe in deeply though your
will start - that person begins by inhaling deeply nose and feel the stuffed animal rise, and then feel
and then exhaling slowly, and then continues to it lower as you slowly exhale through your mouth.
breathe slowly and deeply. Their partner should Rock the stuffed animal to sleep using the rise and
feel the expansion in their partner’s back each fall of your stomach.
time they breathe in and then try to sync their
own breathing so that both partners are breathing
in time together.
Stand with your feet wide apart and your arms Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. Begin by
dangling in front of your body like an elephant’s imagining you are holding a bubble wand. Breathe
trunk. As you breathe in deeply through your in deeply and then, as you breathe out slowly and
nose, raise your arms up high above your head. gently, imagine you are blowing bubbles into the
Then slowly swing your arms down again as you room. Imagine the bubbles are filled with peace or
breathe out through your mouth. love or happiness and that you are filling the whole
room with a peaceful, happy feeling. As you keep
breathing slowly and blowing your imaginary
bubbles, feel your body become calm and relaxed.
BALLOON BREATHING SHOULDER ROLL BREATHING
Sitting in a comfortable position, place your hands Choose a comfortable sitting position. As you take
around your mouth as if you were about to blow a slow deep breath in through your nose raise your
up a balloon. Take a deep breath in through the shoulders up towards your ears. Breathe slowly out
nose and, as your slowly exhale through your through your mouth, lowering your shoulders as
mouth, start to spread your hands out as if you are you exhale. Repeat slowly, rolling your shoulders
blowing up a great big balloon. Hold your hand up and down in time with your breath.
position as you inhale again and then spread your
hands further as you exhale. Once your balloon is
as big as it can be, gently sway from side to side as
you release your balloon up into the sky.
Sit comfortably, resting one hand in front of you Sitting comfortably, gently place the tips of your
with fingers outstretched like a star and the pointer pointer fingers in your ears and close your eyes.
finger of your other hand ready to trace your hand. Breathe in through your nose and then hum
Starting at the base of your thumb on the outside of quietly as you slowly breathe out.
your hand, breathe in slowly through your nose as
you slide your pointer finger up to the top of your
thumb. Breathe out slowly and slide your pointer
finger down the inside of your thumb. Breathe in
as you slide your finger up the next finger and out
as you slide down. Continue breathing in and out
as you trace your whole hand.