The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing [Paperback]

Drawing on a multitude of breathing practices from different healing and spiritual traditions,The Power of Breathworkincludes 25 simple exercises that you can practice alone or with a partner.

Knowing how to breathe and how to use your breath purposefully has been proven to reduce negative mental and physical issues and actually heal the body and mind. A regular home breathwork practice isan affordable and easy way for you to engage in self-healingpractices that can have a profound impact on your overall health.Harness the power of breathwork to:
 

• Facilitate proper immune function
• Enhance connection, creativity, joy, and intuition
• Reduce physical pain as well as tension, depression, anxiety, and trauma

Author, practitioner, and grief worker Jennifer Patterson begins by explaining what breathwork is, why you should try it, and how it can be used to heal the bodymind. Then, you’ll learnwhat happens in your physical body, energetic body, and emotional bodyas you practice it. Before you start the exercises, find useful tips on building an altar, using scent, visualizations and grounding, and somatic writing prompts to help support your practice.

Afterachieving collaboration and deeper trust with your bodythrough practices such as a nurturing body scan and learning to catch and shift out of breath-holding patterns,return to yourself with these solo breath patterns:4-7-8 Breath, Energizing Breath, Box Breath, Pursed Lip Breath, Lion’s Breath, Diaphragm Breath, Alternate Nostril Breath, Skull Shining Breath, Ocean Breath, and Multi-Part Fast-Paced Breath.

With a partner, use breath towork with witnessing and being witnessed, giving and receiving touch, and navigating conflict. Through these practices, you canbreathe into a deeper relationshipwith another.

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