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Transformational breathwork therapies

My whole life has Breathwork has become automatic,

been an element such as walking
changed dramatically. of Eastern spiritual and driving,
After only three traditions for while the other
centuries, integral half is used to
sessions, I came off my to the practice of store suppressed

medication meditation, yoga emotions.
and tantra. In the The third level—
West, the power comprising 50
of breathwork percent of the
was discovered mind’s capacity—is
inmylife,Icanstandtallandproudand in the mid- the superconscious,
happybecauseIknowwhoIam,my twentieth century sometimes known
flawsandgoodpoints.” by pioneers of as the authentic or
EmmaMeredith,38,fromSurrey,UK, psychotherapy ‘higher’ self. The
hassimilarlybeenamazedathowmuch such as Wilhelm superconscious
Breath4Lifehashelpedherachieve. Reich, but it connects our
Dyslexicandontheautismspectrum, wasn’t until the intuition to our
shehadnoself-confidenceandhadbeen counterculture divinity or universal
takingtheantidepressantdrugProzac movement in mind—the spiritual
sinceshewas16.Shealsosufferedfrom the 1960s that part of us that
chronicfatigue.“Ispentabout10years interest really took knows who we
inbed,outofwork,orIcouldonlywork off. Psychiatrist are underneath
parttimeaboutfivehoursaday,andthen Stanislav Grof “Most practices acknowledge that the masks,
myparentshadtopickmeupbecauseI and his wife both the breather and the breath conditioning and
wassoexhausted. Cristina developed have an innate healing capacity” limitations we
“Ihavebeendoingbreathworkforjust Holotropic develop as we go
overayear,onceamonth,andmywhole Breathwork based through life.
life has changed dramatically. After only on Grof’s work in psychiatric bodywork, affirmations The two states of being are
three sessions, I came off my medication. institutions. and coaching. Breath4Life that you are either connected
I haven’t had any chronic fatigue since I Then Leonard Orr discovered incorporates life skills, to your authentic or higher
started. In fact, I now have my own doggy conscious connected breathing neurolinguistic programming, self—with emotions, creativity
daycare business. I look after three dogs, practice of Rebirthing in life coaching and written and and life flowing naturally
five days a week, and I take them on 5k the course of his search for nonwritten process work. and in balance—or you are
walks every day!” spiritual growth and the Most practices acknowledge disconnected. This is a state
As an added bonus, Emma’s early- expansion of consciousness. that both the breather and the of suffering—unhappiness,
onset menopause, which started at age A variety of conscious breath have an innate healing feeling stuck or overwhelmed,
35, has now also completely reversed. connected breathwork capacity and use positive in emotional or physical pain
“When I went to Matthew, I thought it schools have evolved intention to focus the energy and with no flow in life.
might help with the depression. I did not from Rebirthing, including of a session. But they have Breath4Life postulates
know how big the scale of the work is Integrative Breathwork, unique features and spiritual that breathing, beyond the
when you get into the unconscious mind. Shamanic Breathwork and frameworks. basic need for survival, acts
I am happier now than I ever have been, Transformational Breath. The theory behind as a bridge between spirit,
and I’m full of vitality.” Pennie Quaile-Pearce set Breath4Life is that there are mind, and body and between
up the Breath4Life training three levels of consciousness the conscious and the
Unlocking emotions program in the UK after and only two states of being. subconscious.
Matthew works with a huge variety of training as a Bodhisoul The first two consciousness When used in specific ways,
conditions and issues from rape victims breathwork practitioner with levels are the conscious mind, say practitioners, breathing
to children with ADHD and autism from Christina Thomas-Fraser, accounting for 10 percent enables the release and
his clinic in West Byfleet, Surrey. “One director of the Inner Light of mental capacity, and the resolution of emotions,
autistic child I worked with, I asked, Institute in California, in 1998. subconscious mind, which belief systems, stresses and
‘What is it like to have autism?’ Each breathwork school makes up another 40 percent. memories, which are often
“He said, ‘It is like having 100 windows combines a unique set of The subconscious has less accessible through more
open on a computer at once, and they are additional healing modalities two functions: half of its conventional talking therapies
all asking you things.’ After one session with the core breathing effort is put toward holding operating solely at the
he said it was like someone had closed 20 practice, such as sound, the learned skills that have psychological level.
windows.”

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