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I was first introduced to breath by Natalie Burtenshaw of the Red Tent Tribe (Brighton and Hove) as part of a beautiful series of check-ins during the first lockdown of 2020. I’d met Natalie just before the pandemic broke out at her in-person Red Tent circle in Hove, and I’m immensely grateful for that, not just because the content of that meeting set me on a journey that reminded me of who I intrinsically am, but because as lockdown progressed, I felt able to join her on-line daily check-ins where I met an amazing array of incredible women, as we navigated together what was for most of us unprecedented times.
Bearing this in mind, when the invite to a breathwork session arrived from the Red Tent, I naturally signed up, without giving it much thought. I 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!
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 teacher and course leader 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.
A breathwork session, in person or online, is a supported space for personal exploration, for you to allow the wisdom of the breath to work with you, within you. To experience this for yourself, check out the Events page here on the website, there are free breathwork recordings you can do yourself online, an invite to free live online breathworks with me and other members of Breathing Space, and in-person events in York, UK where I now teach.Bearing this in mind, when the invite to a breathwork session arrived from the Red Tent, I naturally signed up, without giving it much thought. I 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!
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 teacher and course leader 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.
A breathwork session, in person or online, is a supported space for personal exploration, for you to allow the wisdom of the breath to work with you, within you. To experience this for yourself, check out the Events page here on the website, there are free breathwork recordings you can do yourself online, an invite to free live online breathworks with me and other members of Breathing Space, and in-person events in York, UK where I now teach.
