Therapeutic Breathwork involves conscious breathing practices i.e. breathing techniques aimed at physical, emotional, and/or mental healing. Sessions are typically guided by a trained Breathwork therapist or facilitator. The practice is often combined with a range [ Read more … ]
Although Jacquelyn Small developed the Eupsychia Integrative Breathwork program in 1991, the term Integrative Breathwork today is often used by a variety of Breathwork facilitators to define their work in a more general way. Overall, [ Read more … ]
The BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® (BBTRS®) was developed by Gitan Tonkov. The system specifically aims at Emotional De-Armoring following Wilhelm Reich’s concept of Segmental Armoring (also written as Segmental Armouring). The BBTRS practice [ Read more … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is a large system of nerves that acts largely unconsciously, independently, and “automatically,” and regulates i.e. controls a variety of bodily functions, such as heart rate, digestion, respiration (breathing), pupillary [ Read more … ]
Breathwork is thought to have many health benefits, well, at least according to a large number of therapists, facilitators, and Breathwork participants. Nevertheless, it must be said that from out a scientific point of view, [ Read more … ]
Bioenergetic Breathing is a Breathwork modality that originated as part of Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetic Analysis, which again is based on the works of Wilhelm Reich and Carl Jung. The technique involves strong, full, regular, and [ Read more … ]
Radix Work was founded in the early 1970s by Dr Charles Kelley, and is a type of Psychosomatic Bodywork or Body-Oriented Psychotherapy that notably addresses emotional and spiritual diseases and discomforts in a transformational way. [ Read more … ]
Vivation Breathwork was created by Jim Leonard in 1979, and is a breathing modality primarily aimed at resolving negative emotions (fear, anger, sadness, and so on), stress, and/or trauma. The practice is also thought to [ Read more … ]