Denise Cady Arbeau
Denise is professor at the North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. With Bliss Body Therapeutic Yoga she brings yoga, meditation and stress management to colleges.
Denise prepares her students for life. The yoga and meditation practise she teaches, are equally useful in college and everyday life. Once you learn to control your breathing, you can control how you feel.
You can learn to calm yourself down when you get anxious or angry. You can use your breath to get energised in the mornings or when you get tired. You can use it to go to sleep. With meditation, you can clear your mind from noise and clutter.
Controlling your breathing empowers you! Denise can guide and support you on your journey. Do you want to bring yoga and meditation to your college? Read the article Denise wrote, and reach out to her for advice.
Connect with Denise Cady Arbeau:
There are people who spend their free-time contributing to make the world better:
What Denise is for colleges, Ric Jorge is for the uniformed services. They both just DO IT! And we all can. Let’s learn from their approach.
Deanna Swoboda used breathing to overcome her facial injury that stopped her from playing tuba properly. Now she helps others.
And check out the free resources that Sasha Yakovleva and Patrick McKeown provide. Also for children! Make it available to yours. Use it if you are teacher or babysitter. You can teach breathing in a playful way. Make it fun!
Take a Breath: Yoga and Meditation in the Developmental Classroom
Denise Cady Arbeau describes very vividly how you can implement yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises in the classroom. You learn how you can help students, to centre themselves at the beginning of the class.
After reading this article, you can already implement techniques for mindfulness in your classes. The key is to do it! It doesn’t have to be perfect. Why don’t you try it out? And keep a journal on how the atmosphere changes.
