Your breath is the key and the answer!

By the time you will be 80, you are likely to have taken around 630 million breaths, based on people normally breathing around 15 times per minute. But how often are you actually conscious of your breath?

Your breath impacts on everything you do, think or act on. Every thought, every emotion can be detected in your breath. When you get agitated, mentally or physically, feel fear, anger or sadness, your breath will change. It may become deeper or shallower, increase in speed or slow down when you relax again.

Everything stops and you go into resistance, defence and struggle, thus creating and strengthening your inflexible body armour.

Whatever happens to you during your life, the brain is storing every detail in your memory. Every thought carries an emotion, physical sensation and vice versa and has an impact on your breath. Especially traumatic fear experiences or long term stresses are leading to limited breath volume, establishing themselves as lifelong breath holding patterns with diminished energy, power and wellbeing.

Each type of Breathwork has its own intention and benefit. We discern between breathing for health and optimum performance, breathing to centre yourself or to aid meditation and consciousness expansion or for de-stressing and to facilitate emotional release. Depending on the desired outcome or intention you can choose between specific breath techniques with different emphasis.

Using a technique called "Conscious Connected Breathing" or "Circular Breathing" it becomes possible to access these subconsciously stored memories, unexpressed emotions or any other material that is held in the body¹s psychophysical system. Relaxing and deepening the breath in this way dissolves the tension in the body and helps to reveal and release the emotional holding patterns and trauma held in body/mind. Re-experienced, expressed and integrated these experiences and memories cease to have an emotional grip on your life, allowing you to live more conscious and empowered.