Well, Hello There Breathwork! 👋 Nice to meet you

I signed up for my first breathwork without giving it much thought. It was part of an online group I enjoyed during the first lockdown, so I trusted the guide and just turned up expecting to listen to someone talk about the breath and maybe do a demonstration or two and perhaps even encourage some breathing practice. I had no idea what I was in for! What happened was an incredibly profound experience and almost an hour of sobbing! For anyone who knows me well, that does not happen very frequently!

I knew as that evening ended that I would work further with the breath.

The wizard who weaved this breathwork magic was Benedict Beaumont of www.MakeSomeBreathingSpace.com and I later found out he ran free breathwork sessions every Thursday evening. I approached … with a little trepidation! (You can find Ben’s sessions here – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2358025077)

My next breathwork session was completely different, it was very physical as the breath seemed to move around my body, almost checking out all the dusty nooks and crannies and taking inventory of what it was working with!

Then my third breathwork was different again. This time a blissful experience that transcended any emotion I had ever experienced before.

I was hooked!  Why?

Firstly, because in my experience, the breath appeared to support whatever was going on in the tapestry of my life. It seems to accentuate or accelerate what I needed to sense, both with my outside physical senses and my inside meta-physical senses.

Secondly, because breathwork starts from a place of personal empowerment. It assumes you don’t need fixing or rescuing, at the same time as supporting you to explore and experience the wisdom and growth potential that is innately within us all.

As an holistic counsellor and coach who completed her training in various modalities and then received the bombshell “insight” that we are all perfect As. We. Are. and therefore, don’t need fixing, the breathwork space of personal empowerment didn’t pull me back into needing to fix or of seeing people as broken, which is really just seeing myself as broken and in need of fixing, rather it provides a safe space to explore whatever is in that very moment, and whatever it is you need in that very moment.

Ben the breathwork wizard, talks about breath as being therapy without Therapy, plant medicine without Drugs, and meditation without Meditating. I’ll second all of that, and then add to it, for me it’s the key to a door within I didn’t even know was there and hadn’t even realised I was missing.

It seemed a natural next step to extend my breathwork journey into becoming a breathwork facilitator, and where else would I go to start that journey?

I am now not only a breathwork facilitator, able to work with people in groups or on-line. I am also a mentor and teacher for Breathing Space school of Breathwork. More importantly, for me and for those for whom I hold a breathwork space, I am a daily practitioner of conscious connected breathwork.

We will use Breathwork in this space to integrate all you have experienced. For the breath to impart their great wisdom into your life experience and take you on the journey you most need in the moment.