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Meditation, Breath Awareness, and Conscious Breathing Techniques
Breathwork, in particular breath awareness and a variety of conscious breathing techniques, has an age-old relationship with meditation practices, not [ ... ]

Breathwork, Autonomic Nervous System, and the Vagus Nerve
The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is a large system of nerves that acts largely unconsciously, independently, and “automatically,” and regulates [ ... ]

Health Benefits of Breathwork | Physical, Emotional-Mental, and Spiritual Effects
Breathwork is thought to have many health benefits, well, at least according to a large number of therapists, facilitators, and Breathwork participant [ ... ]

Bioenergetic Breathing | Catharsis and Bioenergetic Analysis
Bioenergetic Breathing is a Breathwork modality that originated as part of Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetic Analysis, which again is based on the work [ ... ]

Radix Work | Body-Oriented Psychotherapy and Breathwork
Radix Work was founded in the early 1970s by Dr Charles Kelley, and is a type of Psychosomatic Bodywork or Body-Oriented Psychotherapy that notably ad [ ... ]

Vivation Breathwork | Resolving Negative Emotions, Stress, or Trauma
Vivation Breathwork was created by Jim Leonard in 1979, and is a breathing modality primarily aimed at resolving negative emotions (fear, anger, sadne [ ... ]

What Is Somatic Breathwork? | Concept, Approach, and Techniques
The word somatic comes from the Ancient Greek sōmatikós, which means “bodily” — and from the word sôma, which means “body”. Nowadays, [ ... ]

What Is Conscious Connected Breathing? | Aims and Benefits
Conscious Connected Breathing or Conscious Connected Circular Breathing is basically carried out just like Circular Breathing, but then done deliberat [ ... ]

Breathexperience | What Is Middendorf Breath Work?
Middendorf Breathwork therapy was developed by the German Professor Ilse Middendorf (1910 – 2009). The method is also called the Middendorf Breath E [ ... ]

Catharsis, Body De-Armoring, and Emotional Release
The word Catharsis comes from the Greek katharsis, which itself is derived from the two other Greek words kathairein (which means “cleanse” [ ... ]