The Role of Breathwork in Decolonising the Mind
To decolonise your mind, in essence means to actively participate in creating value systems for yourself that are in alignment with how you wish we lived collectively. Breathwork can be a powerful to help us in the process of decolonising the mind.
In Praise of Embodiment: Excerpt from Staci Haines
Engaging in social change asks us to do deep internal work, uprooting and recognizing how social conditions have shaped us through privilege and oppression. Most people do not intend to be racist or sexist or transphobic, yet are anyway. Most of us have a wide variety of experiences (from resilient to traumatic) and occupy varied social locations—some with more privilege and some with less. This does not equalize our various social locations. We need to recognize our complex participation in social systems, rather than flattening everyone’s experiences by saying we have all experienced hardship.
How Do We Create a Counterculture for Breathwork Practitioners in the Modern Age?
Breathwork Parctitioners in the modern context of the white wellness industry are forced into boxes and categories not of our own making. We are not taught any different. Our training does little to address institutional oppression and we are invited to join in without question.
What is White Supremacy Culture and How does it show up in wellness?
The history and and construct of race and racism is a mutually co-arising construct, meaning that we are all trapped by the culture we are in, the culture we are taught and the culture we inhabit while simultaneously perpetuating the trap.
A Decolonial Approach to Breathwork
There have been so many times when the concept of safety has come up in healing spaces, whether it's in ceremony, in a drop-in yoga session or any other embodied modality experience. The word is used and I often get stumped when I hear it - like, what do you mean? What does it mean that this place is 'safe'? Safe for who and 'safe' for what?
Try the The Coping Breath
When you are in a moment of stress of social anxiety and you cannot take a step back, this is a breath pattern that you can use to ground and come back to yourself. (I use this in MOST social situations).
Try the Coherence Breath
Part of a healthy and well-functioning breathing system is the ability and adaptability that the system has. Much of our health has been been measured on heart rate and blood pressure.
What Does a Breathwork Session Look Like?
The third pillar of breathwork, the one I have utilised the most in my deeper healing processes is breathwork journeys. Breathwork journeying is the practice and the use of one breathwork pattern called the conscious connected breath. In these journeys, we breathe this pattern consistently and continuously for 30 - 60 minutes. Through the activation of the breath, we are inviting the body into a different state of consciousness…
What Are The Benefits of Nitric Oxide?
For example, one study showed that nasal breathing increased tissue oxygenation by 10% when compared to mouth breathing.
Breathwork for Beginners
Breathwork, at its core, is the conscious and intentional practice of connecting with our breath. It is a simple yet profound act of directing our attention to the flow of air in and out of our bodies. This ancient practice, rooted in various spiritual traditions, serves as a gateway to self-awareness, inner harmony, and personal transformation.
The breath, often underestimated, holds a remarkable power to influence our physical, mental, and emotional states. When we engage in conscious breathing exercises, we tap into this power, creating a bridge between the conscious and subconscious parts of our being. By regulating our breath, we activate the parasympathetic nervous system, triggering a relaxation response that counters the effects of stress and anxiety.
Nasal Breathing and Sleep
Did you know that mouth breathing and over breathing also contributes to many sleep-disordered breathing symptoms.
What is Conscious Connected Breathwork?
Conscious Connected Breathing is a breathing technique in which the breather intentionally connects the inhale with the exhale without any pauses. Many techniques have evolved from Rebirthing –
Why Should We Breathe Through The Nose?
The following seven factors are more common in countries of increasing modernisation and affluence, which may help to explain why asthma and rhinitis (allergies) are so prevalent in the Western world:
Why is there a rise in Asthma?
The following seven factors are more common in countries of increasing modernisation and affluence, which may help to explain why asthma and rhinitis (allergies) are so prevalent in the Western world:
The Importance of Breath Functionality
Our lifestyle has a significant effect on the way we breathe. While modern living has many benefits, it is also responsible for the negative influences of processed foods, over-eating, poor exercise habits, stress, and higher temperatures in the home.
International Breathwork Bodies
There are 2 main associations for breathwork worldwide. These are a founded by and run by groups of people that came to gather in order to facilitate professional practice within the breathwork industry. T
What is Breathwork?
Breathing is the most intimate relationship we can cultivate with the environment around us. It is a universal unifier of all that lives on earth. Everything breathes. We are not alone and we are not unaffected by those we live with.
Book Review: James Nestor ‘Breath: Science of a Lost Art’
In his captivating and eye-opening book "Breath," James Nestor takes us on an incredible journey into the world of breathing and its profound impact on our health and well-being.
About the Respiratory System
The respiratory system is a vital system for life. Its job is to bring oxygen into the body, remove carbon dioxide from the body and to do this safely with minimal risk of infection, toxin absorption or blockage.