Tense and Relax
This exercise helps reduce stress and improves concentration.
- Invite students to sit comfortably, with their back straight,
without crossing the legs.
- Ask them to tense the muscles of the feet, put the heels
together, then the knees, then tense their legs, their stomach,
their chest and their shoulders.
- Ask them to make fists with their hands, tense their hands
and their arms. Then their necks, mouths, teeth, eyes, even
tensing the scalp.
- Once their entire body is completely tense, invite them to
breath in, hold for ten seconds, while they continue to tense
everything.
- After those ten seconds let the air out while relaxing every
part of the body.