“If you don’t control your breathing, your breathing will control you.”
Breath awareness and training to improve stress resilience in and out of the classroom. Using lessons from various breath modalities to teach teens to easy to apply practices and skills to negotiate life's stressors. Both land and pool based exercises can be incorporated in this 4-6 session course.
TEEN INSPIRE RESILIENCE:
BREATH TRAINING COURSE
"Breath work can change your mental state in as little as 5 minutes"
Mental health among teens is a hot topic in today's environment. There are few options available to teens to help them manage stress. Exercise is certainly a very effective stress mitigation strategy but is often put on the back burner when there is so much pressure on academics. Mediation can certainly work but is often difficult to do when stress levels are high as is the case during exam periods.
Trying to shield them from stress or minimising stress is not always possible nor optimal. A better solution is to improve their stress resilience - their ability to cope. Breathing is the integral connection between the mind and the body. By changing your breath, you can change your (mental) state.
Breathing impacts exercise performance, sleep, focus, concentration and most importantly it is a powerful tool to help regulate the nervous system. Being able to consciously change your state from stressed to a state of calm focus will increase your teen's stress resilience.
Learning a few situational-specific breath principles can go a long way in helping to cope with acute and chronic periods of stress. The way you feel will influence how you breathe. BUT the way you breathe can change how you feel in a very short time.
To accommodate shorter attention span and reinforce techniques and concepts this course is designed over 3 days. Theory and concepts are introduced in a gym setting where teens can move and practice. Games are used on land and in the water to keep teens engaged and make lessons fun.
The breathing techniques learnt will help teens perform better in the classroom as well as in the ocean if they are surfers or swimmers. The pool based exercises reinforce breathing techniques and introduce stress in a safe environment. Exposure to a safe but stressful situation is a powerful way to learn the physical signs and mental responses to stress. Learning to recognise a change of state and tools to manage themselves will last a lifetime.
What do you need?
Prerequisites:
Must be able to swim 100m unassisted
Recommended ages 12-18 yr
What to bring for the gym session:
Comfortable clothes to move in
Water bottle
What to bring for the pool session:
Swimmers
Wetsuit: spring or steamer
Goggles
Dive mask - optional
Towel
Water bottle
During these sessions you will learn how to:
(sessions are tailored to your demands)
To recognise their breathing patterns
What to do when they feel stressed and anxious
How to breathe the 5 minutes before the exam
How to regulate their breathing during the exam
How to breathe to fall asleep
Recover after exercise
Recognise signals for readiness
This course can be delivered at your school or sport club.
The proposed format is for 4 to 6 hours.
At least one session will be in a gym or classroom where the kids can learn the theory and practice the exercises.
One or more sessions can be held in a swimming pool.
Please contact me to arrange to bring this course to your school or club
About Estelle
meet your coach
Estelle is a mom of two boys, now grown up!
With over 10 years experience in performance and functional breathing, you are in safe hands with Estelle. She is an expert in various breath training modalities including Oxygen Advantage, Buteyko, Surf Apnea, The Art of Breath and XPT Life Performance Breathing. Since 2020, she has led many workshops in Newcastle and the Hunter Region. Her passion is to teach people to be able to help themselves. Estelle has a formal education in Biomedical Science and bring this knowledge to her workshops and courses. This course for teens takes aspects of all these modalities to bring a unique course for teens.
Estelle has a formal education in Biomedical Science and brings this knowledge to her workshops to help everyday people breathe and live better. Estelle is passionate about teaching people to be able to help themselves.
Certificates:
* Art of Breath Performance Breath * XPT Life Performance Breath * Buteyko Breathing * Oxygen Advantage Breathing * Surf Apnea
