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Run Visualization
Use this meditation daily to stay focused on your running goal and why it's important to you and, more important, see and feel your ability to close the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be.
- Focus: mental focus, performance
- When: pre- or post-workout
- Suggested prop: bolst... -
Extended Exhalation Breath
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect on your nervous system, helping you to slow your heart rate and relax. Use this routine to Work IN.
Includes a pre/post practice check in — a pause to no... -
Mama Meditation
Use this quick meditation to slow down significantly, create more space, and relax back into yourself amid the demands of motherhood.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: whenever you can!
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
Balancing Breath
Set a tone of steadiness for the task ahead. This simple breath technique is calming and balancing — use it to start the day or pregame your workout or game/race.
- Focus: mental focus, balance
- When: pre- or post-workout
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
Make Balance Your Baseline Meditation
Beneath stress, illness, and injury, you possess an innate knowledge — a baseline — of where you're meant to be and that is a state of balance. Use this simple meditation to establish and maintain that baseline so that you can more easefully manage whatever comes at you.
- Focus: mental focus, ba... -
Recovery Visualization
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
If you are feeling resistance to giving recovery your full focus, remember that this is likely an unconscious habit rather than a choice. Especially in the times when you are struggling to transition from ef... -
How To Improve Sleep Meditation
If you're not sleeping well, you're not recovering as well as you could be. Use this short meditation to help you create space between the activities of your day and your rest, helping you ease into a better night's sleep.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: before bed
- Suggested prop: wall -
Recovery Meditation
Use this routine to set the tone for optimal recovery.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: post-workout or recovery day
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
Race Day Meditation
Use this simple meditation to activate your race or workout mantra — positive affirmation — and help you fly to the finish.
- Focus: mental focus, performance
- When: pre-workout/race
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
Taper Meditation
You've done the work, now recover right. Rather than throwing a taper tantrum, use this meditation to help you absorb and optimize your training. BONUS: Legs Up the Wall adds a restorative boost.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: post-workout or recovery day
- Suggested props: wall, strap -
Nurture Yourself Meditation
Use this quick meditation to practice the art of nurturing yourself as you nurture your children — and to remind yourself that you are doing great.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: whenever you can!
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow -
How To Refocus Meditation
Use this quick meditation to supercharge energy back into the task at hand, gain metal clarity, and sharpen your focus.
- Focus: mental focus, performance
- When: pre-or mid-workout/workday
- Suggested prop: bolster or pillow