Our articles about conscious Breathwork concepts, practices, techniques, and treatment modalities. If you’re rather interested in Yogic Breathwork, check out our Pranayama topic.
Evocative Breath Therapy™ was designed to induce an altered state of consciousness that promotes expanded self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-compassion, inner peace, and release of emotional and physical tension, while learning to cope with stress, anxiety, and [ Read more … ]
Ujjayi Pranayama, also called Victorious Breath (as in victory over death and disease) or Ocean Sounding Breath, is a slow Abdominal Breathing technique that involves experiencing the sound and sensation of the breath touching the [ Read more … ]
Imagery and imagination as applied in (guided) therapeutics, such as in Breathwork therapy and other Mind-Body therapies, may consist of visually descriptive or figurative language, mental visualizations of objects, bodily functions and processes, and/or images [ Read more … ]
Taoist Reverse Breathing is one of many Taoist breathing techniques, and is notably used by Qigong and Tai Chi practitioners, Traditional Chinese Medicine healers, and Chinese martial art fighters. It’s a breathing technique that deliberately [ Read more … ]
A Merkaba (from the Egyptian Mer meaning “light,” Ka meaning “spirit” or “life force,” and Ba meaning “body”) is thought to consist of two intersecting Tetrahedra (plural of Tetrahedron) making a star-shaped field of energy [ Read more … ]
Oxygen Advantage® was developed by Patrick McKeown and is a breathing technique specifically created to improve sport performance and health. The breathing technique is thought to increase exercise intensity while expending less effort and less [ Read more … ]
Breathwork, in particular breath awareness and a variety of conscious breathing techniques, has an age-old relationship with meditation practices, notably with those found in ancient Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese cultures. Traditionally, there have been various [ Read more … ]
Pursed-Lips Breathing (or Pursed Lip Breathing) is a simple Abdominal Breathing exercise that can help slow down breathing, counteract “shortness of breath,” improve the ability to perform physical activities or exercises, and reduce stress. The [ Read more … ]
Psychedelic Breathwork is an umbrella term for Breathwork modalities that aim at eliciting psychedelic experiences, that is, altered, non-ordinary, and expanded states of consciousness for the participant. The idea behind these types of Breathwork is [ Read more … ]
Resonance Breathing (also called Heart Resonance Breathing) is breathing at a slow rate, usually four to seven breaths per minute. It’s basically another name for the Coherent Breathing method. In the medical world, Resonance Breathing [ Read more … ]
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