Breathwork is a powerful therapeutic technique, generating an increase in primary process thinking, a feeling of acute increased awareness, and a lowering of perceptual boundaries. It facilitates access to perinatal material (in utero and birth experience) and transpersonal material (archetypal, shamanic, and cosmic experience) as well as early childhood and repressed biographical material. Breathwork provides an excellent means of getting past resistance, including transpersonal defenses. Breathwork is a powerful means of accessing and healing prenatal and birth trauma, as well as existential issues, gaining personal clarity, and deepening the spiritual connection.

Using this body-centered therapy we are able to bridge the gap between thinking and feeling, between the body and the mind. Individuals who are disconnected from their emotions reconnect powerfully. Individuals whose emotional expression is blocked begin full expression. Individuals who are blocked in the attainment of their potential find renewed energy.

Conscious breathing is a powerful personal development tool that is a key ingredient in physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Heart-Centered Breathwork uses a variety of circular and conscious-connected breathing techniques and emotional processes to bring physical and emotional stress to the surface for release and integration. It helps to unify the body, mind, and spirit.

The breath is the meeting ground between the conscious and the unconscious mind. Early in life we learn to suppress our emotions physically by tensing muscles and restricting breath. Over time, this protective process becomes chronic and automatic and we lose the capacity to experience and express emotions. This repression can sap our vitality and rob us of the ability to experience the positive feelings of love, joy, and pleasure.

Each person has specific experiences during the prenatal period and birth which become imprinted and then unconsciously acted out and repeated during our lifetime. For example, millions of people who had anesthetic births have a pattern of response to stress by numbing out through various addictive behaviors, such as smoking or overeating or illicit drug use. Another example is a person who had a Caesarian birth and goes through life “taking the easy way out.”

Through Breathwork (sometimes called ‘rebirthing’) people often experience their birth directly and are able to release the old unhealthy patterns through conscious awareness. Change happens on the conscious, unconscious, and cellular levels through this powerful process. Once people release their blocked energy of birth trauma and years of emotional suppression, a deep new vitality begins to blossom. You discover your essence, your soul!

The ancient yogis and mystics have used “conscious connected breathing” techniques for centuries to attain enlightenment. This specific type of breathing will assist you in discovering and deepening your own spiritual connection, whatever that happens to be. People are amazed at how spontaneously they are transformed and connected to a place of deep personal inner clarity.

Updated: January 25, 2006