Breathwork
Breathwork
I started Margaret River Breathwork in 2016 and have worked with scores of clients to release trapped density, resolve trauma, and deeply examine core beliefs driving the ongoing experience of hardship in life.
For more details on my breathwork services themselves, please visit here
I’ll sometimes recommend a breathwork session to a counselling client if it seems beneficial, usually to reduce hyper-alertness, anxiety or trapped anger – all of which are defences hindering the deeper work.
While I love breathwork and I’m passionate about my practice, I also don’t think it’s the be-all-and-end-all for helping clients achieve breakthroughs.
Breathwork itself is a bit of a buzzword when it comes to wellness therapy and a lot of people who seek it out aren’t entirely prepared for the profound experience it can provide.
People often experience – and they’re sold on the promise of – a “profound transformation” and disappear back into their lives, only to return a few months later feeling just as bad as before.
After working with numerous clients during the past decade, my somewhat controversial opinion is that breathwork itself is actually quite pointless to healing the wounds of the heart without a supporting framework of dedicated counselling.
I was drawn to breathwork because I loathe bullshit and was impressed – in fact, completely blown away – by the power of a cathartic-style breathwork session. But experience has shown me there’s little point in signing up for a deep breathe where a client dumps a huge amount of trapped density and releases pent-up trauma held in the body – and then goes back out into the world to fill themselves up again with exactly the same pain.
Breathwork is best and most beautifully served hand-in-hand with a more prolonged examination of core beliefs along with the thinking and behaviour that created that density in the first place.
To explore this further, please check out the Margaret River Breathwork page here or send me an email.