What is Clinical Breathwork?
We are all Breathing constantly, breathwork can help us breathe better.
Breathwork is found in every ancient culture across the world. You may even be practicing breathwork in your daily self-care routine. Originating in ancient India, Pranayama is a common part of many yoga practices we see today.
Clinical Breathwork is different.
Clinical Breathwork combines Western neuroscience with ancient eastern wisdom.
What is Clinical Breathwork?
Clinical Breathwork allows you to rapidly drop into a deep meditative state.
This is different from traditional breathwork. It’s the practice of integrating energetic healing with your body’s own unique natural breathing rhythm.
It’s been said Breathwork is:
“Meditation for people who can’t meditate”
Think of it as a manual system override for anxiety and the nervous system. Clinical Breathwork allows you to release old trauma actively being held in the nervous system by enhancing your ability to breathe freely.
When trauma occurs, our bodies respond. Unsurprisingly, the most common response is holding our breath. Trauma can be big or small, a life-altering event or even a loud noise at a young age.
Our bodies sometimes perceive trauma in what is unconscious to our logical minds.
Fear naturally causes an initial fight or flight response and our bodies react. We may find ourselves holding our breath once again when a fear response comes up in the future.
The action of holding our breath then becomes the way our body responds to all instances in the future that trigger the same fight-or-flight response. In effect, we might be holding our breath for our entire lives.
Physical trauma can cause a direct reaction of withholding breath as well. What once caused us pain to expand or contract the ribcage can become a pattern repeated long after the wound physically heals.
And these patterns are happening to most of us completely unconsciously.
Clinical Breathwork works to heal the root of these learned responses by improving your body’s ability to breathe.
Resilience starts with the breath. We can handle any of life’s challenges if we only stop to take a breath first.