Our articles about conscious Breathwork concepts, practices, techniques, and treatment modalities. If you’re rather interested in Yogic Breathwork, check out our Pranayama topic.
Usually, we wouldn’t typically relate Thai Massage with modern Breathwork. But when we consider Breathwork in a more general sense as “breathing techniques to achieve something,” that is, aimed at deriving certain health benefits, than [ Read more … ]
For those who engage in Breathwork exercises the question may arise what the difference is with the Pranayama breathing practices we find in Yogic traditions. In a very simple explanation, we could say that contemporary [ Read more … ]
Shallow Breathing or Chest Breathing (medically called Hypopnea) is typically associated with thoracic breathing, and is usually defined as a structural way of breathing (often done unknowingly by the breather) that uses the intercostal muscles [ Read more … ]
The Buteyko Breathing Technique — developed by Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko — is a Breathwork modality used as a treatment for stress, anxiety, sleep apnea, and a broad range of respiratory conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, [ Read more … ]
Nadi Shodhana (also written Nadi Shodhan) — popularly called Alternate Nostril Breathing — is a Yogic Breathwork technique i.e. breath control practice, a so-called Pranayama, which is thought to have a wide range of health [ Read more … ]
Transformational Breathwork, not to be confused with Transformational Breath® (a trademarked Breathwork modality), is a general denomination for specific, therapeutic breathing techniques that aim at creating altered or non-ordinary states of consciousness and inducing emotional [ Read more … ]
You may have noticed that many Ayahuasca retreats also offer Breathwork training and sessions. In this post, we’ll explain the relationship between these two practices and why they often go together. The Ayahuasca brew is [ Read more … ]
In this post, we take a look at the differences between breathing in through the nose and breathing in through the mouth, called either Nose Breathing or Mouth Breathing. First of all, both types of [ Read more … ]
The word Catharsis comes from the Greek katharsis, which itself is derived from the two other Greek words kathairein (which means “cleanse”) and katharos (which means “pure”). Today, the term Catharsis is commonly used to [ Read more … ]
Hyperventilation, also called over-breathing, is a situation or state of breathing that is faster and/or deeper than usual or necessary, which reduces the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) concentration of the blood flow below normal levels by [ Read more … ]
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