Mindfulness Stretching – a unique therapeutic practice that will help you to reduce stress, manage anxiety, sleep well and feel more comfortable in your body.

Brought to you by David Heap at CalmBeing, Mindfulness Stretching is a gentle inclusive practice that teaches you to stretch your way to relaxation and calm.

What makes it special is the clarity of sensations within the body and the dynamic movement of these sensations over each breath cycle. With the gentle promotion of tension on the inhalation and a promotion of the relaxation on the exhalation we bolster the “rest and digest” parasympathetic nervous system.  The vagus nerve is toned and an intrinsic deep relaxation is achieved.

No matter what your body shape, strength or flexibility level, Mindfulness Stretching works with your natural capacity for gentle movement and your own body’s instinct for its limits.

Guided by David, you will follow the natural extension of the targeted muscle with the relaxing exhaling breath. Step by gentle step, tension, stress and worries are soothed away, along with chronic aches and pains, muscle tension and tightness.

Mindfulness Stretching is the perfect antidote to the tension, stress and chronic pain that can build up as we churn through our lives in this busy, noisy, hyper-connected world.  It has a unique modern take on the age-old wisdom of meditation combined with the practice of mindfulness.

Using Relaxation Stretching and Guided Breathing, Mindfulness Stretching is a careful and deliberate somatic process of progressive relaxation to release muscle tension through breathing, extension and focus.

CalmBeing’s Mindfulness Stretching classes and workshops encourage relaxation, body connection, wellbeing and sleep in a gentle and accumulative way. From the first session, participants find it brings mental and emotional calm and a sense of inner quietness. Mindfulness is built through focusing the mind on the sensations within the body as the stretch gently develops. Almost immediately the mind settles as the brain enters the alpha/theta brainwave state.

The effects of a class go well beyond the hour-long sessions. In a survey of participants 85 per cent reported benefits from the class, reductions in chronic aches and pains, for five days or more.

Classes run in 10 week blocks with a hands-on instructor to walk you through progressive relaxation stretching sessions that will ease the body and calm the mind.  The practices are suitable for all levels of fitness and accommodates most physical aches, ailments and discomforts.

CalmBeing offers Mindfulness Stretching in community venues, in corporate settings and provides teacher training for those interested to bring calm into the lives of others.

The simple principle of relaxing the body to quieten the brain and ease the mind is the foundation of the CalmBeing philosophy. We have been running classes for over a decade, so you can be sure you will get the best care and benefit. Book your first class today.