Breathwork

Breathing is our most vital function, closely connected to the nervous system, with each influencing the other. Humans can breathe both automatically and consciously. By intentionally altering the way we breathe, we directly affect our nervous system.
Breathwork is a form of Conscious Breathing that helps create expanded states of consciousness and supports personal development. It is a powerful transformational tool that enhances inner peace, health, and overall well-being.
Over time, life experiences and emotions can impact how we breathe, sometimes leaving us with restricted patterns, limiting cellular memories or holding tension in our bodies. Breathwork helps release these stagnant emotions, painful memories, and unhelpful habits so you can live more freely and fully.
There are many different approaches to Breathwork. Organizations like the International Breathwork Foundation (IBF) bring together practitioners from around the world, offering a variety of methods to explore.

Balance Breathwork is my personal synthesis of many trainings and life experiences. Gentleness lies at its core. I find that a gentle approach allows deep surrender, trust, and true relaxation. The healing power of deep relaxation brings balance to trauma, allowing difficult emotions to safely surface and be released.

We begin by setting an intention, which helps activate body sensations and cellular memories. Throughout the session, we pay close attention to bodily sensations, emotions, images, and thoughts that arise. Soft music and a supportive facilitator create a safe space, letting you experience whatever comes up.

The breathing technique is nasal breathing, with inhales and exhales connected and deeper than usual, involving chest, ribs, and abdomen. This is done progressively for ease and comfort. This process often results in expanded consciousness and connection to your inner wisdom and happiness.

Each session is unique and unpredictable, and often results in the release of bodily tension and emotional blockages, deep relaxation, and important personal insights.

After every session, we share experiences and integrate the session, drawing from a holistic psychological approach that considers body, energy, life history, and the environment.

The nervous system of most people today is highly unbalanced. The sympathetic system (action, movement, fight, flight) is hyperactivated, while the parasympathetic system (rest, digestion, reflection, integration) is inhibited.

Chronic stress is an epidemic of our time. It is the origin of many “modern” illnesses and affects both physical and mental health. The continuous release of stress hormones causes inflammation, and inflammation is the basis of a wide range of conditions: cardiovascular problems, immune system disorders, slowed self-healing processes in the body, impaired digestion, muscle pain, sleep disturbances, fatigue, and a very long etcetera.

Mental health also deteriorates, and anxiety, depression, catastrophic thinking, irritability, difficulty concentrating, social isolation, substance abuse, self-esteem issues, lack of sexual desire, and another long etcetera may appear.

In my practice, I encounter many cases of people whose lifestyle is a constant source of prolonged stress over many years. They arrive physically and mentally exhausted. Their nervous systems are severely damaged, and their physical health has deteriorated. Many express a deep longing to regain the lost ability to rest deeply.

To meet this need, I have created Parasympathetic Breathing sessions. In these sessions, I use conscious breathing in a relaxing way, combined with simple biohacks that stimulate the Parasympathetic Nervous System, in an environment that induces calm, with low-frequency binaural music.