What is breathwork?
Breathwork is an ancient practise where we relearn and remember how to ground ourselves and cultivate agency with the medicine of the breath by interconnecting on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels for a better wellbeing for the individual and the wider community.
How does it work?
Practising with me includes exploring a series of breath patterns that can help regulate your nervous system, how these work for you, as nervous systems are different from each other and on top of this, our bodies show up differently every day, maybe every hour. After we master these tools, we’re ready for a journey with conscious connected breath.
What is conscious connect breath work (CCB)? CCB with me is a therapeutic breathing technique that is active. It’s a conscious (intentionally) continuous connected (circular) breathing technique, active in through the nose and relaxed out through the nose or mouth, circular meaning no pause. This technique can alter consciousness and release blockages such as physical, emotional, mental, energetic or even spiritual. Depending on what’s needed, I guide short journeys of 10 minutes or 40 minutes.
The therapy part is that we dive into what is present in your life and what is emerging from your body.
Working together is:
client-led, you decide the depth and pace,
trauma-informed, meaning that we practice safety, cultivate trust, create choice, empowerment and collaboration.
decolonised, honouring our connection to land, our people, the cosmos and indigenous traditions. I have experienced and studied systems of oppression that gave us so much discomfort in our lives, and have integrated a decolonised practice into my work that will grow deeper as I will never stop learning and experiencing.
Photography by Kayleigh Groenendijk
CCB was helpful to me as it released stuckness I didn’t have the words for, gave me clarity on what was living in my mind, body and heart when I needed, and sometimes a session would give me rest. As an intersectional woman of the global majority, having the richness of being human, from the diaspora, with an average body size, being middle class, speaking three different languages fluently, CIS, yet questioning gender construct, embracing queerness has made me deeply understand how we position ourselves in the world and how others see us can limit or liberate us. Deeper work about identity has a place in our practise too.
