You are invited
to a free on-line presentation
on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
to mark International Stress Awareness Day.
All are welcome!
What's the Deal
with
Breathing ?
It's so confusing!
Everyone recommends a different breathing pattern
to enhance health, increase performance, or calm anxiety.
Should I use
box breathing (square breathing /tactical breathing),
or 4-7-8 breathing,
or 5:5 breathing (coherence breathing),
or Wim Hof breathing,
or Holotropic breathing
or 4:6 breathing,
or triangle breathing,
or.... what ?
This workshop includes:
research findings on different breathing patterns,
the 3 components of breathing for calm or performance,
tips for breathing better, not harder,
practicing some breathing strategies for self-calming,
and ' ASK ME ANYTHING ' about breathing...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
7:00 - 9:00 pm
ON-LINE
e-mail Kathy at ksomers@uoguelph.ca for the LINK
FREE
International Stress Awareness Day is held on the first Wednesday of November.
International Stress Awareness Day
is a day to increase awareness of the impact of stress on us in our workplace, at school, and at home
and consider how to decrease its negative impact.
The Canadian Institute of Stress reports that those who take time daily to "be good to yourself" decrease their stress by almost half !
Hopefully you will consider "being good to yourself" everyday, not just on Stress Awareness Day.
The Stress Management and High Performance Clinic is a member of the International Stress Management Association - USA.
The International Stress Management Association has chapters in the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United Kingdom. It publishes the International Journal of Stress Management (research articles on measuring stress at work, the influence of stress on health, and implementation of workplace stress management strategies) and promotes Stress Awareness Day.
On International Stress Awareness Day, the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic offers free presentations on stress and stress management.
Past presentations include:
2024 - Midnight Myths + tips for optimizing sleep
2023 - Break the Anxiety-Procrastination Cycle
2022 - Getting Out Again - decreasing re-entry anxiety as in-person activities increase
2021 - Sleep Tips during COVID19
2020 - Increasing Resiliency through COVID19
2019 - Relaxation Spa - celebrating 40 years of relaxation training!
2018 - Energy Boosters
2017 - What a PAIN... stress and pain
2016 - Stress Eating
2015 - Heart Smart Stress Management
2014 - Tune Your Brain... and lengthen your fuse
2013 - Diet, Stress and... IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
2012 - Anxiety : Dial it Down
2011 - Brain Brightening : Boost your Brain Power, and how neurofeedback (brain wave biofeedback) is used to train the brain
2010 - You and Your Computer... a healthy relationship ?
2009 - How Can I Manage Stress ? ...and what's NEW in 30 years of stress management training at the Clinic
2008 - Resilient Thinking Strategies