What is Therapeutic Cathartic Breathwork?
To breathe with consciousness allows us to access our inner world. Our soul lives in those inner chambers mostly accessible through meditation and the aware breath. We have to still the chatter of our minds to receive messages from our heart and soul. The connected breath is such a tool guiding us to our inner sanctum. On this journey we meet our ghosts and dragons from day's gone by. The power of the breath acknowledges the places where we hold on too tight, grasping from fear. The connected breath gently knocks and opens doors so the water and wind can flow freely through us, connecting us again to the greater rhythms of the planet and the stars. The pulsations in the winter are going inward, a good thing to heed, when the day's get shorter and the nights stream forth into dark velvet. To be at peace with one's inner world we have to take the first step, close our eyes and inhale deeply letting go of the outer world. There are gems and deep healing to be found in this allowing of the breath of the universe to flow through us in greater and greater waves. Come and taste from this greatest of medicines and heal your soulful body. All my love to you. Dunja your fellow breathing journeyer on the inward path.
Breathing is the foundation for all life processes. On all levels the breath is a prerequisite for growth and transformation, whether we are looking at a single cell, entire tissue structures or the organ system. Human beings, animals, plants and the whole planet depend on the flow of life-force. Our reversed inner tree of life, the bronchial tree resides within our chest allowing us, through the medium of the breath, to make this connection between our outer and inner worlds. With every inhale and exhale we take part in this infinite exchange of giving and taking. Our breath connects us in every moment with the alternating current of life; at the same time it can free us from the claims of our material existence.
Therapeutic Cathartic Breathwork is a powerful form of breath work, a catalyst for transformation. This powerful introduction will initiate a physical and spiritual clearing process. Every time you breathe the primitive and limbic part of your brain, as well as the neo cortex will form new connective patterns, allowing you to release what does not serve you any longer. Strengthening these integrative aspects of your brain will also give your consciousness and soul a chance to fully be expressed through your physicality creating more energy and awareness. Breathing in this connected way will also help you to connect deeper with yourself and those around you. Therapeutic Cathartic Breathwork is fantastic for your mind, body, relational and spiritual self. This breathing intensive is an amazing opportunity to breathe consciously, releasing life times of thought patterns and misguided belief systems, replacing them with brilliance, health and being able to connect to your true inner source and fountain of infinite joy.
Dunja Carlson-Moeller Ph.D. is an Anthropologist with extensive research and clinical training in medical anthropology, a field concerned with cross-cultural comparisons of medical systems and healing processes.
More in depth information on the 10 day Breathing Intensive
Breathing is the foundation for all life processes. On all levels the breath is a prerequisite for growth and transformation, whether we are looking at a single cell, entire tissue structures or the organ system. Human beings, animals, plants and the whole planet depend on the flow of life-force. Our reversed inner tree of life, the bronchial tree resides within our chest allowing us, through the medium of the breath, to make this connection between our outer and inner worlds. With every inhale and exhale we take part in this infinite exchange of giving and taking. Our breath connects us in every moment with the alternating current of life; at the same time it can free us from the claims of our material existence.
Therapeutic Cathartic Breathwork is a powerful form of breath work, a catalyst for transformation. This powerful introduction will initiate a physical and spiritual clearing process. Every time you breathe the primitive and limbic part of your brain, as well as the neo cortex will form new connective patterns, allowing you to release what does not serve you any longer. Strengthening these integrative aspects of your brain will also give your consciousness and soul a chance to fully be expressed through your physicality creating more energy and awareness. Breathing in this connected way will also help you to connect deeper with yourself and those around you.
This breathing intensive is an amazing opportunity to breathe consciously, releasing life times of thought patterns and misguided belief systems, replacing them with brilliance, health and being able to connect to your true inner source and fountain of infinite joy.
The way you breathe is the way you live your life.
Breath as the source of life.
Breathing is a tool for healing, stress reduction, and personal development. The breath can be used to release and heal the wounds of emotional trauma. At the time of trauma, the first thing we do, is to hold our breath or take short and shallow breaths. By releasing an emotional trauma from the body, we can get the breath flowing again, and consciously start to become aware of what were the events that stopped or slowed our breath in the first place.
Changing our emotions and treating physical illness.
Using the Therapeutic Cathartic Breathing techniques, we can change the way we breathe, cleanse our body of emotional traumas, and discover our truer feelings. The breath is the simplest way to focus on becoming aware of the self. The breath can help us build energy and endurance. In stressful times, the way we breathe, taking long deep breaths, for example, can change our whole situation; it can help release the toxins that developed in the body due to stress and tension. Breathing patterns shift when different emotions are happening to us. Through an awareness of our breath, we become more alert and able to heal emotional traumas.
Learning how to breathe.
Breathing exercises form the foundation of many ancient practices. Breathing exercises deepen consciousness, helping us to connect to our essential selves; our source, one may say, our own spirit and will power. If you look up the “word” for breath, you will find that it also means spirit. The way in which we breathe is also the way in which we embody spirit. Deep flowing breath is a good sign of health, balance, and fullness of one own spirit and life force. Short, weak or shallow breathes indicate stress, confusion and, generally speaking, health problems. Life is being held back. During inhalation, fresh oxygen and energy is brought into the body and organs, nourishing cells and tissues and the body's natural energy centers. With each exhalation, the body releases carbon dioxide waste and toxins, releasing all the accumulated stress, anxiety, and negative energy with them. We don’t have to learn this. Our body already automatically knows how to breathe. We just need to remove the tightness caused by trauma so our natural ability can return and we become conscious of using the breath to connect to our self—to our spirit and to our life force.
The Therapeutic Cathartic Breath as a healing tool.
This breathing is one of the simplest healing tools. It reminds us how to breathe naturally, enabling the body’s cleansing mechanism to work to its full effect and benefit, purifying our life and encouraging our self-healing. Breathing is an automatic and natural response of our well-designed bodies. Through the healing techniques of the Therapeutic Cathartic Breath, we can start to really experience our breathing as joyful, effortless, and natural. By learning the Art of Natural Breathing, we can gain an understanding of the tools necessary to change old habits, release addictions, and overcome depression, in short, transform our life.
