Healthy Living: Mindful Relaxation – Implementing self-care techniques into daily life

This course will support you to learn how to relax to support your own well-being. You will learn a range of relaxation techniques that help to improve your awareness of your own body and breathing. Each session will guide you through a progressive series of techniques that include breathing practices, contraction and release exercises, gentle, mindful movements, gentle sound release, self-massage and havening techniques and guided Yoga Nidra and positive visualisation. Each session will create a seamless flow of progressive relaxation. Learning to relax deeply with the support of your tutor each week ,will support you to consider how to implement relaxation into your daily life. You will have access to relaxation recordings in Canvas, allowing you to develop your practice. Some relaxation techniques can be practiced for just ten minutes and can easily be practiced on a daily basis. By the end of the course you should feel confident to implement some self-care relaxation techniques into your daily life. You may want to progress to the next course, Mindful Relaxation Practice – simple techniques to relieve physical tension. This course will look deeper at how we can alleviate physical tension through relaxation.