BREATHE

There are many ways to connect and converse with your body-mind & spirit. These workshops combine practice and knowledge from the healing arts disciplines of Naturopathy, Breathwork, Aromatherapy, Reiki & Creative Health. In this 2.5-hour group session, you will be guided to nervous system regulation and somatic processing using the breath, sound, aroma, subtle bodywork & reiki energy. 

Healing can be a science or an art form depending on what’s meaningful to you. These workshops remain non-prescriptive to suit all types of belief systems and worldviews. I strive to create a safe space for you to drop out of the mind and into the body, open up, release stagnancy, and expand into renewed perspective, emotional equilibrium and awareness of what is meaningful to you.

A regulated nervous system does not mean we feel calm all the time. It means we are able to adapt flexibly between different nervous system arousal states in response to what life brings and demands from us. Stress is useful sometimes, as is deep relaxation. Each has its place but neither to be constant, polarised or even mutually exclusive. Life is complex and so are we. 

These sessions meet you where you’re at, and we work intuitively with our lived experience and individual nervous system state to feel into what is necessary, possible and suitable for us at the time. Some sessions may be profoundly transcendent, activating and transformative, a real catharsis. Others might induce a deep theta state or even lead you into sleep. You might experience a wild mix of both, everything or nothing at all! The key is to release expectations and surrender to the process - the panacea to most things!

Since integration is the key to transformation, you will leave the workshop equipped with exercises to practice at home to anchor in your experience. You will receive a short illustrative booklet full of breathing exercises and somatic techniques to keep with you and use as you please. 

Suitable for all levels - no prior breathwork experience required. However, if you have any of the following conditions, this session will not be suitable for you:

Medical Contraindications

1. Epilepsy

2. Detached Retina

3. Glaucoma

4. Osteoporosis that is serious enough whereby moving around actively could cause potential issues.

5. High Blood Pressure that is not controlled with medication.

6. Cardiovascular disease and/or irregularities including prior heart attack

7. Strokes, seizures, TIAs or other brain/neurological condition or disease

8. If either you have had an aneurysm or if two members in your immediate family have had one.

9. Use of prescription blood thinning medications such as Coumadin

10. Pregnancy

11. Asthma (if you have asthma you can participate but you must have your inhaler available)

Psychiatric Contraindications

1. Prior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia

2. Hospitalization for any psychiatric condition or emotional crisis during the past 10 years.

3. If you have been diagnosed with PTSD and still have strong symptoms, you are required to get your therapist’s approval to participate before you register

4. Any other medical, psychiatric or physical conditions which would impair or affect ability to engage in any activities that involve intense physical and/or emotional release.

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