Breathwork
Breathwork is an active meditation that helps you bypass your thinking mind so that you can more easily access the wisdom and guidance held within your body. In doing so, it creates an opportunity for you to discover and release stuck patterns of pain, emotion, belief, and behavior in a safe, profound, and sustainable way. A powerful tool for self-healing, Breathwork leaves you feeling clear, reset, rejuvenated, and recharged. If you’ve been looking for a tool to help you break old patterns and move into a new phase of possibility in your life, you’ve found it.
Why Breathwork?
When used broadly, the term “breathwork” can refer to a wide variety of conscious breathing techniques that aim to influence the state of the nervous system. The breathwork I offer in my practice as a Certified Breathwork Healer is a specific, fast-paced, 3-part breathing exercise that moves stuck energy and emotions, relaxes the mind, opens the heart, and expands consciousness.
Like many of the tools I employ in my practice, breathwork empowers you to take center stage in your own healing process. Like hypnotherapy and the other altered state practices I employ in Spiritual Counseling sessions, breathwork helps us bypass our thinking minds so that we may access the wisdom, healing, and guidance that’s always present in our emotional brains and bodies.
There are parts of most of us that greet the world with joy and openness. But there are also parts of most of us that carry pain, fear, grief, anger, traumas (big and little), and inherited and learned beliefs about what’s true about or possible for ourselves and the world around us. These parts keep us from living the lives we’d like to be living and from being the people we’d like to be. Breathwork is a simple tool that supports us in bringing awareness to these mostly unconscious parts. Once awareness is brought to the belief system creating the problem, it can be changed. In other words, breathwork makes the unconscious conscious. In doing so, it can set us free.
Regular breathwork will bring you into a deeper relationship with yourself. You’ll have greater clarity, self-understanding, and self-compassion. You’ll feel more relaxed, confident, and at peace. You’ll learn to stay present with yourself through difficult moments. Your intuition will grow and your creativity will expand. In short, breathwork will help you shed long-held beliefs and patterns and move you into a new phase of possibility and connection with yourself, your people, and life itself.
I currently offer the following Breathwork services:
One-on-one healing sessions for both new and existing clients, in-person and virtually via Zoom
Virtual and in-person breathwork groups; view and register for upcoming events here
What does a session look like?
We’ll spend some time at the start of the session getting to know more about you and what’s inspired you to seek support in this way. What brings you here? What are you hoping to understand or clarify? What are you hoping to gain or shift? What are you hoping to transmute or release? Putting words to your concerns at the outset of our time together helps set the tone, and creates a framework for us to work within.
Once we’ve established this foundation, you’ll lie down and get comfortable. If you’re in the clinic with me, you’ll lie on the treatment table. If we’re working on Zoom, you’ll lie down somewhere in your own space (for example a couch, a bed, a yoga mat on the floor), positioning the camera so that I can see you while you’re breathing.
The breathing lasts around 45 minutes. Thirty-five or so minutes are what we call “active breathing,” and the active breathing is followed by 10-15 minutes of rest and integration with a natural breath. I’ll be present with you the entire time, providing support and guidance to help you move past resistance, stay focused on the breath, and clear and release anything that comes up during your session. You’ll also be breathing to a specially curated playlist that will assist you in opening up and letting go.
People have a wide range of experiences while breathing, and no two sessions are ever alike. Visit the FAQs for more details and what to expect during the breathing, itself.
We’ll close the session with a brief check-in about your experience. I may share some reflections, and we may discuss “next steps” or home practices. That said, I also encourage people to not try to “make sense” of it right away — this pulls us out of the experience and right back into the thinking mind. If we can give ourselves time and space to simply be with the experience, it will all make sense over time.