CW Program

Professional athletes have been using systematic training in mindfulness, breath techniques, yoga, meditation, and core wellness to improve overall performance and manage stress. These practices focus on improving resilience, strength, focus, speed, peak performance and endurance. The CALM WARRIOR program is specifically designed to introduce these skills to the members of the law enforcement community, firefighters, EMTs, other first responders, veterans and anyone in a stressful situation.

The Calm Warrior program focuses on integrating key activities: Assessment, Breathing, Focus / Meditation, Relaxation skills, Core Strength and Proven Wellness Practices
We have created the program in short segments, knowing that many times prior to or after experiencing a critical incident, you may only have 1 or 2 minutes to reboot and recharge. The Calm Warrior skillset for Resilience, Stress and Anxiety can be extremely useful in very short increments, or longer if you have the time.
It consists of 5 practical steps:

1. Assessment, Awareness: observe, witness
2. Breathe efficiently
3. Concentrate, Center with focus
4. Discern: act, avoid or accept
5. Ease: relax muscle tension

Breathing is natural. It is automatic, and it is something you always have within your reach to give you resilience and help regulate stress.
Focused breathing can allow you to:

• Minimize the effects of stress
• Harness the good stress as energy to develop focus and expand awareness of situation
• Manage the effects of adrenaline surges before and during an incident
• Reduce the effects of the adrenaline dump after a stressful incident

Physiological Benefits:
Lowers Blood Pressure
Slows the heart rate
Increases exercise tolerance.
Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
Decreases muscle tension
Helps with chronic pain
Strengthens the immune system
Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing
Relaxes your nervous system

Psychological benefits:
Increases serotonin levels, influences mood and behavior.
Helps control your own thoughts and can help resolve phobias & fears
Helps with focus & concentration
Increased brain wave coherence.
Improved learning ability and memory
Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
Increased emotional stability
Develops sharp intuition
Increased Productivity
Improved relations at home & at work ~ Able to see the bigger picture of life in a given situation
Increased ability to solve complex problems
Develops better reaction time to a stressful event.
Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
Reduces road rage
Decrease in restless thinking
Decreased tendency to worry
Increases listening skills
Helps you make more accurate judgment
Helps keep things in perspective, peace of mind

Recharging skills
Restorative stretches adapted to first responders,

Learning core strength movements
Develop flexibility of mind and body