Breath Awareness for Calm and Clarity
- 7 Sections
- 23 Lessons
- 1h Duration
Orientation
Part 1: Understanding the Breath
Part 2: Simply Noticing with Mindfulness
Part 3: Calming Things Down with Geometric Breathing
Part 4: Taking Control with Pranayama
Part 5: Integration
Summary and Next Steps
Breath Awareness for Calm and Clarity is a free, short course that is suitable for you if you work in a stressful or demanding role or environment in health, social care or a related field.
This short course has been created especially for people working in health and social care — people like you who give so much of yourselves every day.
It’s designed to be gentle, practical and supportive — something you can take at your own pace, and come back to whenever you need.
In busy, high-pressure environments, it’s so easy to lose touch with the breath. Yet our breath is always with us — a powerful resource for calming the nervous system, managing stress, and reconnecting with ourselves in the moment.
Developing simple breath awareness techniques can make a real difference — not just for your own wellbeing, but also in how you relate to others and respond to challenges at work.
"I didn't know that my breath could be so powerful."
The course will teach you about the problems and habits we get into with our breathing and the importance and value of learning to breathe well.
You will learn how to recognise what your breath is telling you and how to calm and soothe yourself using powerful breathing techniques..
"I did this free, short course and, I enjoyed it so much, I've now signed up for a 7 hour CPD course."
Breath Awareness for Calm and Clarity includes the following content:
- Why breath awareness is valuable
- How small changes in breathing can make a big difference to your wellbeing
- Two simple breathing tests to help you connect with and understand your own breath
- Three guided practices to help you breath well and give you calm and clarity
- Reflection on the value of practices and how they can support our wellbeing
- Suggested resources for further learning and development
Breath Awareness for Calm and Clarity is a free, short, certified course, created for you in your role as a health worker, clinician or social care professional, whatever your specific role or level in the organisation.
It is a great taster of the content and quality of our learning materials, so when you finish it, you might like to try one of our CPD-accredited courses.