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Introduction to Breathwork

What is Breathwork?

'Breathwork' as such sums up all the different ways to use breathing for healing. Meditation, Yoga, shamanism as well as ancient mystery schools all have used the breath to access deeper levels of being, develop higher senses and find inspiration. Regarding its healing capacity, breathing is one of the most powerful tools of personal development humanity owns. It is accessible to every one and almost every body is capable to use it for their own healing.

In our training courses and seminars we integrated the best of Holotropic Breathwork, Rebirthing, Transformational Breathwork, Continuum Breath/ fluid body work and others methods. Beyond all methods, the breath as such is free and provides as many different approaches as there are individual lives.

Breathing is a very intimate journey with Spirit, an exploration of consciousness within the body
 

Breath and Healing

Who has gained more profound awareness of their breathing accesses unlimited amounts of energy, emotional health, inner freedom, bliss and peace.

The breath is our body’s own energy tool, simultaneously cleansing out and energising our entire system. Any healing process greatly benefits from deep and relaxed breathing whose effects are comparable to using zero point energy tools. In fact what we breathe is the subtle but strong quality of zero point energy, which explains why conscious connected breathing heals at so many different levels.


Breath versus breathing

In breathing there are a doing version and a being version. In order to resolve blockages, most schools of breathing techniques begin with a kind of intentionally guided breath.

The breathing is called ‘conscious connected’ then, when inhaling and exhaling are merged without pause – the breath flows uninterrupted like the waves in the ocean. The connected breath is our natural type of breathing after birth and ideal to give us our full potential of energy during life.

Breath control starts in the moment when we discover that by holding our breathing we can control our emotions. For most Western European people this already happens during infant age, but latest when we begin using language to express ourselves. Controlled exhaling is what allows us to pronounce words.
In rediscovering connected breathing, to the average person the ‘baby breath’ at first may appear to be exhausting because we have forgotten how it feels to be fully energised. This may seem contradictive but it costs us a lot of effort to breath into regions of our body that we have refused to ventilate for decades and that for a good reason.

In every part of our body that the breath has no access to we hold pain and suppressed emotions.


The Breathwork Process

The breathwork process in not linear regarding the topics we face and where we start really depends on our personal needs at the time. If any, then a cyclical structure can be observed which very much follows the planetary transitions that archetypically colour our life since birth.

As far as our development never stops, the breath journey never stops as well but on our way becomes more and more pleasurable and joyful. Although as mentioned, there is not linearity in this process, it is likely that when beginning to re-discover the connected breath, we first access our ego structure.

The ego structure comprises all the tensions at the physical level. We have these tensions in our body from holding our breath in situations where we controlled our emotions. These are all the situations that caused us step out of experiencing an emotion too big at the time to simply get on with life. Attached to these tensions, stored in the body’s cellular memory and blocking our energy from flowing are exactly these unfelt emotions. During this period in the process we may access situations from our early past reaching all the way back to our childhood, infancy, birth, intra-uterine period as well as to so called past lives. If we have to specificly remember something to understand an e.g. behavioural pattern, this will happen. If we don’t, we just breathe through. Maybe we just experience some physical sensations or feel emotions or not even that.

The less we attach ourselves to ‘the experience’ the better off we are. Breathing in a state of awareness in the here and now helps us to let go from the stories we want to let go from. Knowing our ego structure allows us to successively detach from it, let go from past imprints and to be more present in our daily relationships.

Bliss

When the mental, emotional and physical blockages we attained during lifetime(s) softened enough to allow for the breath to flow unhindered, the breath happens easily and there is no more effort in connecting it almost as naturally as we did as babies. When we are in breath, the breath is we and there is no doing or wanting involved. This is the ultimate breath and true connectedness.

Nothing could be more blissful then experiencing the melting of boundaries and the experience of being pure energy. This is when we hit the edge of what our ego is capable of enduring. As it is the task of the ego to keep us a separately functioning unit, we know that when it feels threatened that we now are at the step of crossing into the light.

We need our ego to act in this world and we need patience with it when our fear of getting lost in oneness begins to break down. Love and gratitude are what heals everything and if we can manage to communicate in a truly respectful, loving and grateful way with ourselves, we will remove the veils of illusion and become reborn into oneness consciousness. From then on we start spreading love wherever we go and are of highest value for all our relationships, because we have fully stopped fighting polarity.

Aimee Lange