How Can Breathwork Support Me? 

When we start to be aware of how we are breathing, we may well notice that we are holding tension and trauma in the body which is constricting our breath and causing us tension unconsciously. If this continued for years, or even a lifetime, which can be common for so many of us, then we can experience discomfort and dis-ease in the body in many forms such as anxiety, digestive issues, insomnia, aches and pains, headaches, high blood pressure, to name just a few. 

If we can bring awareness to how we are breathing and start to breath in a conscious way, we can open up and release any of these restrictions to allow ourselves to live a healthier, happier more vibrant life. 

Transformational Breath®

What is Transformational Breath®?

Transformational Breath® is a self-healing breathing technique that helps us restore our breath back to it's most natural pattern. 

Have you ever noticed how you are breathing? How about right now, just notice, are you holding your breath? Taking short shallow breaths? Or deeper fuller breaths maybe? Just pause with me now and let's do a quick breath check; place a hand on your heart, another on your lower abdomen, close your eyes and just breathe. In and out, nothing else just breathe. 

What do you notice?  Is it easy to breath deep? Was the hand on your chest moving more than on your abdomen? Or the other way around? Maybe they were moving about the same.  How about the flow of your breath, was there any tightness, any pausing between inhale and exhale?

All I want you to do right now is observe. Just pay attention to your breath. 

What if I told you that most of us only use 20-40% of our whole respiratory system, not even half! So imagine how we could live our lives if we learnt how to open that up to utilise our full breathing system! We can really start to thrive in every area of our lives. 

We hold so much of our emotion in our body which we in turn control through our breath.

This conscious connected breathing practice will help unlock, release and integrate any of this emotion we are carrying around. Opening up our full respiratory system to enable us to live a fuller life. 

History

 It has been founded and developed by Dr. Judith Kravitz who first experienced conscious breathwork in the mid-seventies through the breathing practice known as Rebirthing. 

 Today, Transformational Breath® is taught and experienced as a powerful self-healing modality. This technique has expanded beyond Leonard Orr's work and Dr. Stanislav Grof's Holotropic modality. We are a global breathwork success story.

 Judith has integrated various principles from metaphysics, Kundalini Yoga, breath analysis, sound healing, bodymapping plus other healing and spiritual principles into the most therapeutic Breathwork training system known today as Transformational Breath®.

 It works on 3 levels, the Physical, the Mental/Emotional and the Spiritual/Vibrational.

Physical

 Practicing Transformational Breath® will open up your whole respiratory system. Taking deep diaphragmatic breaths will release tension in the body, improve oxygen circulation to cells around your body, stimulate your lymphatic system removing toxins and waste from your body leaving you feeling lighter and more energised. Breathing deep and using your diaphragm will also activate your para-sympathetic (rest & digest) system keeping your whole body in a state of calm. 

Mental / Emotional

 Do you realise how much you hold on to in terms of unexpressed emotions? Any unexpressed pain, anger, guilt or even joy will remain in the body until you allow it to release. It may be that you haven't felt safe enough to feel and let go of certain experiences, or maybe they are just too painful to revisit and allow to heal. 

 Transformational Breath® will allow you to access and release anything you may be holding on to without speaking, just breathing and feeling. You could access past trauma that you have buried so deep you have forgotten it is even there. But you are still carrying it with you in your unconscious.

 Breathwork is desrcibed as one of the best non-talking therapies available. 

Spiritual / Vibrational 

 This can mean different things to each of us, whatever is important to you is completely valid. For some it will be a connection with a religion or faith, for others it could be returning to self or a higher self beginning to really hear that inner guidance and intuition and for others their spirituality is within the science of us and the world we live in began. Which ever is your belief is perfect, breathwork will only help you strengthen your connection to it. 

 When breathing in this conscious way, it will help us to raise our internal vibration and shift out heavy emotions or energies to feel lighter, clearer and more like our true self.  Now before I lose you talking about vibrations, there is science behind this, something called the 'Law of Entrainment'. This basic law of physics teaches us that everything in the universe is made up of particles or waves, vibrating like strings at different frequencies. The Law of Entrainment basically states that when two different frequencies are in the presence of one another, they will always come into resonance with each other; the lower frequency moving up to meet the higher one. When we breathe we are raising our internal frequency, so any lower frequencies stored inside us (heavy/old emotions) will move up and out. 

 Intrigued? You need to experience it to really know. 

 Transformational Breath® will assist you in clearing out the heavy energy you are carrying around and allow you to reconnect mind, body & soul to then access whatever is there for you to access. Maybe your inner guidance/intuition that we sometimes disregard or can't even hear at all. 

 You can find more information on the following websites: Transformational Breath & Transformational Breath UK

Jessie is currently the Chair of the Transformational Breath® Foundation UK.

What are the benefits of breathwork?

Here are just a few things that Transformational Breath® will help with:

• Release of Tension in the Body
• Release of Stress 
• Clarity of Mind
• Manage Anxiety
• Improved Sleep Pattern - no more insomnia
• Improved Digestive Function
• Eliminate Headaches
• More Energy & Better Performance
• Improved Concentration & Focus
• Calm and Grounded Energy
• Connection with Self & Stronger Intuition
• Heightened Creativity
• Healing & Integration of Trauma