BREATHWORK

Somatic Breathwork is a modality that allows you to reconnect on a deep level with yourself and your body. Somatic Breathwork allows you to work through past experiences and the emotions and sensations connected to these experiences. The trauma-informed focus invites you to reconnect and feel so you can let go and move on from the past. This process resets the nervous system and re-establishes balance and health of body and mind. Somatic Breathwork is for anyone who is looking to heal body and mind and who is trying to find more grounding and peace within. There are certain health conditions that do not allow to practice Somatic Breathwork. Please check our contradiction section for more information.

Somatic Breathwork is focused on trauma and nervous system healing. It uses the breath to move into the spaces in the body where we feel anxious, unsettled and where trauma resides. Somatic Breathwork is a highly transformative experience to release stress, tension and trauma from body and to allow the nervous system to return back to balance. A balanced nervous system will allow you to reset anxiety and depression symptoms, improve sleep, energy levels and increase well-being.

Somatic Breathwork consists of a clear introduction of the breathwork techniques and what might show up for you during the session and a grounding practice followed by intention setting. The actual Somatic Breathwork Journey is structured into 2 phases. A cleansing phase and a repatterning phase with breath holds. In the cleansing phase we breathe in and out of the mouth to activate the nervous system so you can release stress, tension and trauma from the body. Followed by the repatterning phase to reset and calm the nervous system so body and mind can come back to balance. The breath holds are your time to go inward to see what needs to be cleared from the body and what has already shifted. The Somatic Breathwork Journey ends with a Sharing Circle to integrate and share what showed up during the transformative experience.

Somatic Breathwork is intended as a personal growth experience and should not be looked upon as a substitute for psychotherapy. It is not appropriate for pregnant women, for persons with cardiovascular problems, including angina or heart attack, high blood pressure, glaucoma, retinal detachment, osteoporosis, history of seizures, stroke, major psychiatric conditions, recent surgery, acute infectious illnesses, or epilepsy. If you have any doubt about whether you should participate, please consult with your physician(s). Persons with asthma should have their inhaler available and consult with their physician(s). If you are looking to reset your nervous system, but you find that certain health conditions may not allow you to participate in Somatic Breathwork, pls get in touch so Jane can help you with alternative options serving you and your body.

Every Breathwork modality is structured differently and incorporates different breathing techniques. Somatic Breathwork is structured into 2 phases. A cleansing phase and a repattering phase. In the cleansing phase you will breathe in and out of the mouth to activate your nervous system and to allow the body to release. In the repatterning phase you breath in and out of nose to move the nervous system back to a balanced state and back to safety.

Oftentimes, when Breathwork modalities only incorporate activating breath, breathing in and out of the mouth, participants bring up a lot of trauma and clear out a lot but there is no phase to integrate and to move back to a balanced state. This can leave the body in shock of the changes and shifts it worked through and can leave you in a very triggered and vulnerable state that can cause overwhelm or actually traumatize or re-traumatize the body. During our repatterning phase we are making sure to bring your body back to a balanced state and that you have time in a safe space to integrate the changes you created in body and mind. We also always include a sharing circle after the experience so if there is something showing up for you after the session, we will only close the circle when you feel safe and ready to leave.

Both journeys are equally effective and are structured the same way. It is all personal preference. There are people who are able to go even deeper when they are able to practice breathwork from the comfort of their own home without distractions and with no one in their personal space. We know sometimes there is resistance to virtual sessions because it feels like there is too much distance between the guide and the client. But this is really not the case. Somatic Breathwork is an inward journey where you are guided into your inner world supported by music and your guide. It is a process you are working through on your own with your body and mind. Somatic Breathwork is an internal process of self-exploration and self-awareness to create powerful shifts internally that will change your life and heal body and mind. This makes in-person and virtually sessions equally powerful.

Every journey is different. Every person response different. There are people who barely move and make no sounds during the whole journey and they have highly transformative experiences. There is other people who work through anger, sadness, grief and pain in one session. It is always different. The main goal is to allow the body to express itself. This is how you allow the body to release unserving energy from the body and to complete trauma responses. It is not so much about how the body expresses itself, more about if you allow it to do what it needs to do. Oftentimes, anger and sadness is very hard for people to feel and makes them feel very vulnerable. For your body it is not important if it expresses itself through anger and sadness. For your body it is more important to move the energy behind the emotion through and to release it so you can come back to balance. So most of the time, if we allow us to feel anger and scream if we need to, we move within minutes through the emotion. It is our judgement and us suppressing our emotions that keeps the emotions in our body sometimes for years or decades. If you choose Somatic Breathwork as the powerful healing modality that it is, allow yourself to feel your emotion fully and it will transform your life in ways you cannot even imagine.