Breathwork is different to yogic breathing (pranayama).
Pranayama is designed to open your energetic channels, and it calms the body.
Breathwork was designed by somatic psychologists, and the aim is to wake up suppressed emotions, memories, and trauma so that these energetic burdens can leave the physical body and leave the practitioner feeling lighter, free, more embodied, and released from long held subconscious patterns.
But why would we want to stir this up this trauma?
Isn’t better to leave it locked up in our bodies and go about our lives as if nothing has happened?
Studies of Holocaust survivors proved that the victims of the Holocaust include the children and grandchildren of the survivors.
If the survivors never speak of, or process those horrors, the children of such families were often too frightened to imagine what could have led to such constriction and lifelessness in their parents.
They were traumatised by these numb, absent parents.
The 20th century saw two world wars, genocides, massacres, civil wars as well as famines, droughts, and human exploitation.
We all have parents and grandparents who fought and survived these horrors.
Add dysfunctional childhoods, school systems and workplaces, thus every person has their own burden of trauma.
Breathwork is a safe technique to gently physically release trauma and make sense of the memories and emotions that arise.
We have a workshop coming up soon: Saturday September 13 from 2.30pm to 5pm, Zamia Theatre, Tamborine Mountain.
Contact me through www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au if you’d like to join us.
