I spent some of my hours back in my home town working with the colorguard at my old highschool.
I had previously close ties to some of the girls on our team and I knew that some of them suffered from anxiety and at the age they are I know that they are about to become succeptible to so much more.
In working with the newer girls as well as the other members I had known previously I got to watch them learn ways that would potentially prevent them from reaching such terrible levels of stress and worry and hopefully they will be less likely to amount in thousands for medical bills.
In working with them,the techniques I used were practicing stretches that would relax their muscles as well as participating in yoga. I know it sounds cliche that yoga will help you relax but it isn't wrong... I first learned how much yoga helps through cheer practice when my coach had brought an instructor to work with us (on my behalf).
Then after we worked on those techniques I worked with them through their practice to help prevent the stress of learning their new work.
Finally once practice was over I went through a guided relaxation from a video found on youtube.
This will have a voiceover that will have you lay down and give different directions for you to follow and think about, this in turn causes your body to relax. After doing this exercise there was a lot of positive feedback from the students and I felt like I had done a great deed to them for opening their doors to this experience.
If you would like to watch or use one of these techniques here are a few links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJbRpHZr_d0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYnqvadurg
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