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Nature Wellness Zone Routines
Nature’s Connection:
This all round nature connection routine helps to create feelings of awe, wonder and soft fascination. Slowing down and tuning into a wide range of natural elements from the sky, to natural sounds to small inquisitive and grounding aspects of nature found within your immediate surrounds.
Ideal Nature: a location with a good view and outlook where you can see the sky, ideally with the frequently visiting birds. Look for areas that have a good diversity of natural ground cover immediately around you so individuals can notice interesting aspects of nature that are smaller than your thumb.
Rest and Digest:
A vision activity that asks individuals to use their wide-angle vision (peripheral vision) to trigger their parasympathetic nervous system that helps them to relax. It involves looking at items that move when looking straight ahead using their full wide-angle vision.
Ideal Nature: a location with a good view and outlook where you can see things moving e.g. wind over water, clouds, birds, leaves on the trees on breeze etc
Mindful Moments:
This routine activates all our senses in nature as a powerful mindfulness practice to help reduce blood pressure and heart rate, increase wellbeing and create feelings of beauty and awe. This 5,4,3,2,1 stress reduction and sensory enhancing activity can be picked up later and be used anywhere you go.
Ideal Nature: a location that offers good sensory diversity with natural sounds, items that you can touch such as leaves or rocks, any engaging smells and finally, items of natural beauty.
Feel the Flow:
This virtual routine takes individuals through the sights and sounds of water to increase a range of neurochemicals that promote wellness, increase blood flow to the brain and heart, and stimulate relaxation by clearing the mind. Can be enjoyed anywhere and at anytime. Best experienced with headphones on in a comfortable and quiet location.