Wake Up Your Breathing
Your breath is your most powerful and accessible tool — use Wake Up Your Breathing to wake up, warm up, and prepare yourself for what’s ahead.
Take your practice further:
• Use one video from the Wake Up Your Breathing collection every day this week.
• Download your free A4Y Practice Plan to plan, track, and review each week.
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Wake Up Your Breathing
Your breath is your most powerful and accessible tool — use it to wake up, warm up, and prepare yourself for what’s ahead.
Whether you’re just waking up or need a refresh after prolonged sitting, use this warm up to activate your breathing and energize and support your body.
Take your warm up p...
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Good Morning Meditation
Use this practice to welcome yourself to your day, align yourself with how you want to feel, and set the tone for the events to come.
- Focus: mental focus, warm up
- When: morning
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Sit + Breathe
Meditation is restorative mental focus training — it helps us to relax and recharge so that we can feel and function our best. Finding a balanced, comfortable seat is a great way to support yourself when you practice, and helps to reinforce balanced sitting — so important in general because we si...
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Balancing Breath
Set a tone of steadiness for the task ahead. This simple breath technique is calming and balancing — use it to start the day or pregame your workout or game/race.
- Focus: mental focus, balance
- When: pre- or post-workout
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
Create Space Meditation
It’s often when we feel like we don’t have time to meditate or rest that we need that space the most. When you’re busy, things tend to blur together — as if there’s no space between thoughts — and it’s hard to be fully present and effective with what you’re doing.
Use this practice to slow thin...
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Extended Exhalation Breath
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect on your nervous system, helping you to slow your heart rate and relax. Use this routine to Work IN.
Includes a pre/post practice check in — a pause to no... -
Breathe to Balance
Your breath is your most powerful and accessible tool — you are always breathing and your breath is always available. Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect, activating your parasympathetic nervous system and helping you to slow your heart rate and relax.
Use this Reset to balance...
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Breath Support for Pregnancy
Breathlessness is common during pregnancy and as your baby grows it can feel as though you have no space to breathe. Use this routine to familiarize with and practice breathing techniques to create more space in your mind and body, to manage discomfort, and ultimately to help deliver your baby as...
