Techniques and Apps to Calm You

Meditation, Breathing,Yoga and Fitness

Insight Timer

This is an app that you can add to your phone or you can go to https://insighttimer.com There are many free and paid meditations on this website. A great one to start with, especially during this time, is Sarah Blondin’s, “Learning to Surrender.” Her shorter meditations are free, and it is nice to listen to such a calming voice guiding you through a meditation during this time of great change. Sarah Blondin also released a new meditation, A Message of Hope in Challenging Times.

4-7-8 Breathing

This breathing technique can quickly shift you from a stressful state to a calmer state. You inhale for four counts, hold for seven counts, exhale for eight counts, repeated several times. Practice this breathing exercise 2x/day for several weeks to get the maximum benefit.
Watch Dr. Andrew Weil perform this here: https://www.drweil.com/videos-features/videos/breathing-exercises-4-7-8-breath/v

Free Awesome Exercise App, Down Dog

The Down Dog App is a fitness app that is free right now until May 1st, and free for educations, students, and healthcare workers until July 1, 2020. It features fitness yoga, yoga for beginners, HIIT, Barre, 7-Minute workouts. They are also working on prenatal and postpartum workouts but haven’t released them yet. Check it out!