Calmness Flow: Home Exercises to help combat Anxiety with George Pearse

Designed to build overall strength while helping to relieve stress and anxiety in uncertain times, this six minute workout created by PT and psychotherapist George Pearse is about starting the day in the right way. George takes us through a combination of movements and breathing techniques aimed at gently getting the body moving while promoting a calm, positive mind set and setting us up for the day ahead.

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DURATION: 6 MINUTES

BENEFITS OF CALMNESS FLOW

• Aimed at improving emotional and physical wellbeing

• Focuses on breathing techniques to calm the mind and find stillness in the body

• Helps bring unwanted anxieties under control

• Helps maintain a positive mind set

• Provides a range of movement to help start every day the right way

• No equipment needed.

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MAIN WORKOUT

• Seated breathing to lying deep breaths

• Lying chest and upper back openers x 5, with glute bridges in between the 2 sets

• Windscreen Wipers for lower back mobility

• Onto knees for cat-camel spinal mobility

• Then Thread the Needles

• Spinal Rotations from a low squat position

• 5 breaths in plank

• Up into Downward Facing Dog

• From Down Dog alternate knee strikes

• Walking back into a forward fold, hamstring set

• Spinal lift, finishing with shoulder shrugs

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