Breathing
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Altered States

Shift your state of consciousness with intensified breath work.
Altered States
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Why it matters?

Breathwork has been used for thousands of years by various cultures all around the world in spiritual practices to alter one’s perceptive abilities to sense other layers of life. 

There are ancient techniques and newer techniques that vary in their settings, facilitation and practice — but all involve intensified breathwork technique to alter one’s state of consciousness. Early effectiveness can include pinpricking sensations on the body, dizziness or lightheadedness, seeing images or visions, deep emotional release, and often profound insights that produce perceptive shifts of reality. 

People feel, hear and see things they would not normally experience in daily life as the system is processing information in new ways for new insight. Physiological effects have been studied showing increased oxygen content in the blood, alkalization of the blood, heartrate and hormone shifts, as well as altered brainwave states. In short, through simple breathing techniques we can produce rapid insight, physiological healing and psychological shifts — without the need for drugs. Proceed with caution and aim to study these techniques with a master practitioner.

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How it works?

Holotropic Breathing: optimizing the equal lengths of an ideal inhale/exhale.

Fire Breathing (Kapalabhati, Tummo and Bhastrika): training breath quality consistency.

Shamanic Breathing: alternate nostril breathing to balance the nervous system.

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Examples

Holotropic Breathing

Fire Breathing (Kapalabhati, Tummo and Bhastrika)

Shamanic Breathing

Take aways

Use breathing to alter your perceptions and sensations to sense a deeper connectedness to self, other, and source. 

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