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What is Breathwork?
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Breathwork is a general term used to describe any type of therapy that utilizes breathing exercises to improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. Each form of breathwork therapy has its own unique methods of using breath for healing purposes. It draws from Eastern practices like yoga and Tai Chi while incorporating Western psychotherapy techniques. To bring about self-awareness, breathwork can include elements of talk therapy, breathing exercises, art, music, and bodywork
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Conditions that breathwork can benefit
The goal of any breathwork therapy is to support people in achieving a greater sense of self-awareness and capacity for self-healing. It also helps people work toward overall improvement in mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Breathwork therapists guide participants through various therapeutic breathing techniques.
The benefits of breathwork can include everything from improved immune function to metabolic functioning, emotional regulation, stress management, and an improved quality of life. Breathwork has been used to treat the following types of conditions:
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Chronic pain
- Anger issues
- Depression
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Grief and loss
- Emotional effects of physical illness
- Insomnia
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Labor pain
- High blood pressure
- Irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
- Smoking cessation
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Why should you do breathwork?
Hong Kong is very fast-paced and levels of chronic stress and anxiety are very high which takes a toll on our physical and mental health. Breathwork can be exactly the tool needed to provide some reprieve from busy and overstimulated life.
Your breath is like your body’s very own in-built Swiss Army knife. A tool that can help you in so many situations. You might be a sleep-deprived parent, a stressed business executive, an elite athlete or anyone in between. By simply learning how to use your breath as a tool the way nature intended you to, you can quickly affect the systems and functions in your body, improving your physical and mental health and performance and emotional wellbeing.
90% of people are breathing at only 50% capacity. That means that most of us aren’t getting oxygen into our blood and cells for proper bodily functions.
Some well-known types of breathwork include:
- Holotropic Breathwork. In this type of breathwork, the goal is to achieve “wholeness” of mind, body, and spirit. With the aid of “evocative” music and occasional bodywork, participants are guided through breath exercises while lying down. This is meant to induce altered states of consciousness. Holotropic Breathwork is often conducted with groups. This allows people to work in dyads and support each other’s processes. Participants usually create mandalas related to their breathwork experience immediately after the group breathing exercises. Sessions end with sharing and discussion. This helps participants integrate what they have learned about themselves.
- Rebirthing Breathwork. This type of breathwork is also known as Conscious Energy Breathing. It is based on the premise that all humans carry with them the trauma of their birth experience. The goal of Rebirthing is to help people release energy blockages that have been stored in the body and mind due to suppressed trauma. In treatment, participants are asked to lie down, relax, and breathe normally. Through the use of “conscious connected circular breathing”, inhibitions surface. The tensions of past trauma are then illuminated. Deep relaxation is used to promote brain waves that lead to the release of subconscious issues and pent-up energy.
- Clarity Breathwork. This type of therapy is based on many of the tenets of Rebirthing Breathwork. But it does not solely focus on the trauma of birth. Clarity Breathwork addresses any and all issues that hinder the healthy flow of energy and breath. Clarity Breathwork is based on the idea that most people do not breathe to their full capacity. The main goal of a Clarity Breathwork Practitioner is to teach people how to breathe fully. This may release the emotional energy that keeps them stuck. Therapy begins with an in-depth interview about present concerns and past experiences. Sessions include in-depth intuitive counseling, somatic exploration, and one hour of circular connected breathing practice.
- Biodynamic Breathwork. Fully known as Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release System, this modality integrates six elements. It seeks to release tension, support natural healing, and restructure internal systems. The categories of biodynamic breathwork are breath, movement, sound, touch, emotion, and meditation. This approach recognizes trauma is stored in both psychological and physical ways. Trauma may be stored through emotional patterns, chronic stress, and blocked energy. Biodynamic breathwork aims to restore balance to these systems. Treatment sessions might incorporate exercises like deep, connected breathing and revisiting ingrained memories and sensations. It might also include music or sound therapy, vocalization, whole-body shaking, and even dance therapy.