With Lauren Naomi
With Gelong Thubten
Breathwork, mindfulness and meditation have a huge number of benefits for our mental health from reducing stress, to lowering anxiety and depression, improving self-awareness, focus, attention-span and emotional wellbeing. While also improving our physical health by supporting good immune function, lowering inflammation, and blood pressure.
How Does This Work?
Nowadays many of us spend a lot of time in our stress response, also called ‘fight or flight’, triggered by our sympathetic nervous system. This response is essential at points, but when consistently activated by day-to-day stresses and strains, it affects our well-being.
We can’t avoid all stress, but the good news is that we can develop healthy ways of responding to stress via a range of simple tools, including breathwork, meditation, and mindfulness. All three practices are proven to lower stress and increase our sense of wellbeing by switching us from our sympathetic stress state to our parasympathetic ‘rest and digest’ state.
Breathing exercises, like the ones you’ll find in our 5-day course, have specifically been shown to reduce perceptions of anxiety and physiological stress and increase parasympathetic ‘rest’ activity. The most powerful note is that these effects can come into fruition after just five minutes, which is something most of us can find time for.
So, try it for yourself. Join us for five days of slow breathing. Tune into yourself, nourish your mind, slow down and watch the magic unfold.
Just 12 minutes a day could change your life…
Welcome to the 5-Days to Lower Stress Plan
This plan has been created specifically for those new to breathwork to discover the practice and the ways it can help enhance their lives.
The plan consists of 5 educational sessions to help you learn about the relationship between breath and stress, and how we can use the breath to de-stress and 5 breathwork practices. We recommend listening to the educational intro ahead of completing the practice for each day and completing all sessions in a week.
The practices build sequentially on each other so we recommend completing them in the order provided. No equipment is needed except a comfortable, quiet space and an open mind.
How to Progress Through the Plan
We highly recommend doing the classes on the days suggested, to get the most out of the plan. You can, however, control when to progress through the plan. Simply complete the class for that day to mark it as complete or alternatively, you can simply mark the day as complete when you’re finished (or if you need to skip a day for whatever reason).
If you can’t do the classes that day, it doesn’t matter - just do your best and what feels right for you and your body - the plan is intended to enhance your life, not create more stress.
Restarting or Ending the Plan
If you need to restart or end the plan, simply head to the bottom of the plan’s screen.
Where Can I Find My Plan
All plans are now found in the plans hub on the bottom nav, not the homescreen. This includes your ‘active plans’ that you’re currently in. To access, simply tap on the thumbnail of the plan in your ‘active plans’ section.
