LibGuides: Online Escapes: Relaxing Activities for You and the Ones You Love!: Overall Health and Wellness

Fitness Apps

Nike Training Club
Filter workouts by categories like specific muscle group, time you have to spend, and workout types—choose from strength, cardio, yoga, and mobility—to find exactly what you’re looking for each day. You can also choose from equipment options.
7 Minute Workout
7 Minute Workout is the #1 fitness app in 127 countries. Daily HIIT exercises at home with no equipment. Become your own personal trainer to lose weight and get fit with fast with simple daily workouts.
FitOn
Workout anywhere with world-class trainers that are experts in their field and make fitness fun.
Adidas Training by Runtastic
Select muscle groups and create your own workout that fits your schedule. Join challenges: compare your activity to others and push yourself in new ways. Workout anywhere, any time.
Fitness Blender
We believe fitness should be accessible to everyone, everywhere, regardless of income level or access to a gym. That's why we offer hundreds of free, full-length workout videos, the most affordable and effective workout programs on the web, meal plans, and helpful health, nutrition and fitness information.

Fitness Resources

SparkPeople
Headquartered in Cincinnati, SparkPeople is a leading publisher of health, fitness, and food information that "sparks people" to live healthier, happier lives while helping them reach their goals.
LIVESTRONG
At LIVESTRONG.com, we strive to help all people make informed decisions about their health.
Health
Health provides whole-life advice and inspiration for the woman who knows who she is and wants to live well in every way. We empower. We encourage. We educate.
Men's Health
With 25 print editions in 35 countries and more than 21 million readers across its social and digital platforms, Men’s Health is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, and the number one source of information for and about men.
Prevention
For 70 years, the Prevention brand has been a leading provider of trustworthy health information, empowering readers with practical strategies to improve their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Disclaimer

This guide was created to provide suggestions for ways to unwind and cope with stress. No content on this guide is medical advice and should not be relied on as such.

15 Minute Beginner Flexibility Routine!

Yoga for Beginners!

Yoga For Anxiety and Stress

Music Therapy

Music has been said to "soothe the savage beast" from the play The Mourning Bride (1697) by British poet William Congreve. Music can be used as a form of self-care. According to Psychology Today, music therapy specifically is used to improve health in the following ways:

Help manage physical pain
Improve heart health (heart rate and blood pressure)
Support better sleep
Improving brain functions, helping with memory and mood

Some ways you can use music for self-care to alleviate stress and promote wellness can include:

Simply listen to your favorite music or bands. Different kinds of music can activate certain regions of the brain related to emotional regulation. For example, slower songs generally have a calming effect. This blog provides tips for creating a personalized music therapy routine.
Sing out loud or dance to music to suit your mood!
Using a sound machine during the day to help your mood or "white," "green," or "brown" noise during the night to support sleep.
Using a mobile app such as Frequency: Healing Sounds, Moongate: Binaural Beats, or Brainwaves: Binaural Beats. Wearing headphones is recommended for listening to binaural beats which affect brain waves by playing sounds of different frequencies in each ear.

Yoga Apps

Yoga for Beginners
Yoga is a great way to relax and melt the stress away. Yoga for Beginners is the perfect app for getting started. Meditate, de-stress & feel calm!
Yoga Studio
Yoga should be accessible to all! That’s why we’ve carefully crafted and curated the prefect mix of technology, teacher experience and overall yoga goodness to make Yoga Studio: Mind & Body the number-one destination for health conscious individuals looking to begin their yoga journey or to take it to an all new level. All our classes come with full HD video and teacher commentary that’s clear and easy to follow.
Down Dog
Select your time, level, focus, voice, and music, and Down Dog creates a unique, personalized yoga practice every time.
Gaia
Gaia offers over 8,000 ad-free yoga practices, documentaries, and original series that explore our human and cosmic stories.

Nutrition and Diet

Eatright
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917,
American Heart Association
For nearly 100 years, we've been fighting heart disease and stroke, striving to save and improve lives.
Eating Well
At EatingWell, our mission is to help make healthy happen every day. We provide the inspiration and information people need to make healthy eating a way of life.
he Vegetarian Resource Group
The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and veganism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger.
Meatless Monday
Meatless Monday is a global movement that encourages people to reduce meat in their diet for their health and the health of the planet. The campaign was started in 2003 by Sid Lerner, the Founder of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.