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Mindful Breathing Exercise to Promote Calm - Breathe & Stretch

Mindful Breathing Exercise to Promote Calm - Breathe & Stretch is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

Under 5 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Gather your group to sit in a circle with enough space between everyone to move freely.
  2. Announce that you will soon lead your group through a brief movement exercise.
  3. Facilitate the exercise step by step as guided by the script.
  4. Conclude by gently inviting your group back to their own identity.
  5. If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience.
  6. Breathe & Stretch Mindful breathing exercise for groups to promote relaxation.
  7. Breathe & Stretch combines focused breathing with simple movements to create a calming, health and wellness activity helping participants become more present and centred while releasing tension.
  8. The simple guided format makes it easy to facilitate, whether as an opening activity or to help transition between more vigorous exercises.
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Prompts to use +

Gather your group to sit in a circle with enough space between everyone to move freely.

If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience.

Breathe & Stretch combines focused breathing with simple movements to create a calming, health and wellness activity helping participants become more present and centred while releasing tension.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Mindful Breathing Exercise to Promote Calm - Breathe & Stretch. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Gather your group to sit in a circle with enough space between everyone to move freely.; If desired, invite your group to reflect on their experience.; ; Breathe & Stretch combines focused breathing with simple movements to create a calming, health and wellness activity helping participants become more present and centred while releasing tension.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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