{"id":44,"date":"2013-11-24T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T12:57:39","slug":"what-is-breath-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/?page_id=44","title":{"rendered":"What is breath work?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Using the breath to release tension in the body is not a new concept.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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We hold our breath when we are afraid, anxious, sad, tense or in pain, and that holding traps the negative feelings in our bodies. These trapped tensions can lead to anxiety, trauma, and even disease, both physical and emotional.<\/p>\n

In a typical breathwork session you will lie down on a mattress on the floor, cover yourself with a duvet and begin to breathe deeply to the music.\u00a0 This can be done individually or in group sessions.<\/p>\n

Using regulated deep breaths, each connected to the other,\u00a0while lying down listening to the music especially\u00a0selected for the process, you are able to go beyond\u00a0the\u00a0masks that\u00a0you hold in place for your survival, beyond your personality into that quiet, profound space inside your heart where you can find truth and light and peace.<\/p>\n

Breathing gently\u00a0in and out allows for the breath to begin to push at the deep seated trauma that is buried in your bodies.\u00a0\u00a0 Remember, everything we have experienced in our lives, from being in the womb to now,\u00a0is encoded in our bodies, and the trauma stays dormant but skulking \u2013 waiting to be\u00a0triggered to erupt \u2013 often destructively.<\/p>\n

In a breathwork process you can allow the breath to access this trauma and you can breathe it out in a safe and controlled space.\u00a0 You can laugh or scream or cry or shake\u00a0it out and have the physical experience of letting go of the stuff that blocks your aliveness on the out breath.\u00a0\u00a0 Into that vacuum you can then breathe in\u00a0a new idea, a wish, a positive feeling that can fill you and nurture you and heal you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using the breath to release tension in the body is not a new concept. We hold our breath when we are afraid, anxious, sad, tense or in pain, and that holding traps the negative feelings in our bodies. These trapped tensions can lead to anxiety, trauma, and even disease, both physical and emotional. In a … Continue reading What is breath work?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathingforhealing.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}