The Carers' Meditation Podcast

Tension & Release Meditation | For Dementia Carers

Alison Watson-Shields Season 1 Episode 40

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The Tension and Release Meditation is a guided relaxation practice for unpaid carers, designed to help you release the physical stress that caring stores in the body.

Through simple cycles of gently tensing and relaxing different muscle groups, this meditation supports deeper relaxation and body awareness — especially helpful when stress feels physical: tight shoulders, clenched jaw, restless energy that won't settle.

For carers supporting someone living with dementia, the body often carries what the mind is trying to manage. This meditation helps you release both.

No experience needed. Just follow along and allow your body to soften, one breath at a time.

Press play whenever you need to physically let go and reset.

Suitable for anyone supporting someone living with dementia, whether at home or in a professional care role.

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The Carers' Meditation Podcast is produced by Young at Heart ULO CIC, Stockton-on-Tees. Supporting unpaid carers of people living with dementia.

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