The Power of Breathwork
Fair Winds Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-8329-2 (ISBN)
Drawing on a multitude of breathing practices from different healing and spiritual traditions, The Power of Breathwork includes 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 is an affordable and easy way for you to engage in self-healing practices 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 learn what happens in your physical body, energetic body, and emotional body as 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.
After achieving collaboration and deeper trust with your body through 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 to work with witnessing and being witnessed, giving and receiving touch, and navigating conflict. Through these practices, you can breathe into a deeper relationship with another.
For more focused breathwork practice, you will also find exercises that work with themes such as creativity, easing perfection narratives, inviting laughter and joy, cutting energetic ties to harmful dynamics, plus dedicated practices for welcoming the new day and then, when it is done, releasing the day and inviting sleep.
The Power of Breathwork provides you with simple and approachable ways to intentionally and effectively breathe to bring healing and joy.
Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses breath, herbs, and somatic writing to explore the body, survivorhood, and healing. Jennifer offers care as a practitioner through her own practice, Corpus Ritual, and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She has facilitated workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, veterans’ hospitals, and colleges and universities. Connect with her at corpusritual.com. Jennifer is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Meet Jennifer
About This Book
Chapter 1: The Importane of Breath
Unconscious and Conscious Breath
History of Breathwork
The Benefits of Breathwork
How Can Breathwork Help Me?
Trauma and Chronic Stress
Chapter 2: What's Happening in the Body
The Physical Body
The Emotional Body
The Energetic Body
Chapter 3: Building a Breathwork Practice
Getting Comfortable
Scent
Visualizations
Aftercare Writing
Chapter 4: Building a Relationship With Your Body
Connecting to Your Breath and Body
Nurturing Body Scan
Counting Breath
Noticing Tension and Inviting Release
Catching and Shifting Out of Breath-Holding Patterns
Chapter 5: 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
Multi-Part Fast-Paced Breath
Chapter 6: Breath Patterns With a Partner
Witnessing Another and Being Witnessed
Asking For and Receiving Touch
Long Multi-Part Fast-Paced Breath
Breathing Through Conflict
Chapter 7: Focused Breathwork Meditations
Good Morning! Welcoming the New Day
Good Night! Closing Out the Day
Easing Perfection Narratives
Inviting in Laughter and Joy
Inviting in Creativity and Aliveness
Cutting Ties
Further Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Power of ... |
| Zusatzinfo | color illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rockport |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7603-8329-4 / 0760383294 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7603-8329-2 / 9780760383292 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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