Somatic Breathwork is a transformative embodiment experience resulting in an altered form of consciousness in which you choose how deep you go. It takes you out of your thinking mind and into your body’s electrical network. It lets you release unneeded or stuck energy within this network caused by repeating thoughts, feelings, and old narratives by discharging it out through your body.

Somatic Breathwork employs active, sustained breathwork (around 35 – 40 minutes) coupled with rhythmic music to produce a cathartic emotional release, followed by a 15 minute integration time of relaxed stillness.

This form of breathwork allows more oxygen into the lungs, and thus blood, and increases energy in the body. Through this technique, the blood becomes more alkaline. The increase of energy in the body and the change in blood chemistry activates the body and nervous system and heightens awareness. This can increase the ability to access repressed memories, emotions, and experiences that rise to the surface of awareness, as a cathartic experience that moves towards integration. This can show up as spontaneous crying, sounds, shaking, or any spontaneous movement; it’s also possible that there are no outward expressions, but the inner experience is similarly intense. Equally, this activation can be a beautiful, transcendental experience where you feel love and bliss or a sense of oneness. Regardless, there is ample time following the active breathing to rest, integrate, process, journal and/or sketch.