BREATHWORK
Breathwork is a term, which can be used by you to refer to any type of breathing exercises or special techniques to breathe to achieve different purposes. There are various techniques of breathwork which are applied for improvement of mental, physical, spiritual and health conditions of human beings. During the breathwork, breathing pattern is typically changed, intentionally, to get the desired results.
Approach of Young JS. and Cashwell CS.
Young is of the view that breathwork is a term, being used in the new scientific age for various breathing practices and exercises in which the conscious level of breathing of a person’s mental, emotional or physical state is controlled, with a claimed therapeutic healing consequences.
Further; Young says that in some breathwork training sessions, there may be some presence of training watchers or ‘sitters’ which are required to provide emotional or physical support to breathwork practitioners. Commonly, breathwork training sessions continue for almost an hour or so. When practitioners join the breathwork sessions, they do it because they believe that a particular pattern and style of passive breathing of practitioners lead to their altered and improved unconscious mind.
Views of Ades TB.
But, Ades disagrees with the findings of Young that still there is limited evidence that breathwork effects are helpful for relaxation and stress in a similar way to meditation and introspection.
Ades describes the course of action of breathwork practicing session, during which, instructor will ask the participants to lie down and to breathe, applying the particular methodology, depending on the type, style and purpose of breathwork.
Breathwork therapy can be designed and can be applied in different forms and style, involving the breathing, systematically and deliberately. The therapy of breath work is applied by a lot of people for the release of day to day in-depth mental tensions and to make them more energized.
How was Breathwork Born?
Breathwork is a therapeutic method that uses the breath as a tool. Our history goes back to the East with the breathing practices of Buddhist monks, Yoga, Chi Kong. Modern Science began researching the beneficial power of breathing in the 1960s. The first scholars of Breathwork, were Dr. Stan Grof, Christina Grof, Leonard Orr. This was followed by many excellent scientists and therapists who continued to research and apply it to all levels of human existence. The method is constantly evolving and nowadays there are many different types of Breathwork, each with their own techniques and methods. In this course we will explore them and study in depth the most suitable ones for a Breathwork Practitioner and Instructor.
