Meditation: Take a moment to connect with your breath
A great tool for teaching basic breath awareness is the Hoberman sphere, a geodesic dome that can be folded and unfolded. Some call this tool the breath ball because you can mimic the movements of breathing through the dome’s movements: as the dome folds inward, you imagine the out-breath contracting; as the dome expands, you imagine the lungs expanding on the in-breath.