Our articles about conscious Breathwork concepts, practices, techniques, and treatment modalities. If you’re rather interested in Yogic Breathwork, check out our Pranayama topic.
Breath Retention simply means to hold your breath, either after inhalation or after exhalation. In fact, when done consciously, you extend or introduce a pause at the max of the inhale and/or at the max [ Read more … ]
The word somatic comes from the Ancient Greek sōmatikós, which means “bodily” — and from the word sôma, which means “body”. Nowadays, the most common use of somatic is in the meaning of “part of, [ Read more … ]
Take a deep breath! Well, we all know this phrase. Usually, it’s said to you by someone else when you’re anxious, stressed, in shock, or in panic mode, and are breathing rapidly, excessively, and shallow. [ Read more … ]
Conscious Connected Breathing or Conscious Connected Circular Breathing is basically carried out just like Circular Breathing, but then done deliberately without any pause between inhaling and exhaling. As such, it explicitly links inhalation and exhalation [ Read more … ]
Tao Yin Breathing is a set of Taoist breathing exercises and part of Tao Yin (also called Daoyin, Tao Yoga, Do-In, Chinese Yoga, or Taoist Neigong), which is a system of Taoist body and mind [ Read more … ]
Circular Breathing (also called Round Breathing) is a breathing technique that involves breathing in slowly with deep and full breaths, and subsequently breathing out slowly and fully, without applying breath retention techniques or a deliberate [ Read more … ]
In the 1970s and 1980s, psychologist Gay Hendricks and his wife Kathlyn developed the breath-focused transformational and healing technique which today is known as Radiance Breathwork. The primary aim of Radiance Breathwork is to encourage [ Read more … ]
Box Breathing — also known as Square Breathing — is a Breathwork technique applied to instantly help you calm down and relax, particularly useful in stressful moments. A note of precaution: the lead image of [ Read more … ]
One of the questions in relation to Breathwork is if practicing it can be dangerous for your health, and what sort of risks, precautions, and/or contraindications may apply. Now, there are really many types of [ Read more … ]
Middendorf Breathwork therapy was developed by the German Professor Ilse Middendorf (1910 – 2009). The method is also called the Middendorf Breath Experience, Breathexperience, or the Perceptible Breath Experience (which are all translations of Der [ Read more … ]
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