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Breath Awareness: the Foundation of All Breathwork
The train's crowded, the air feels heavy, and your mind is racing. It's just another stressful morning commute. You notice you are holding your breath. You take a deep breath. In, and out. You feel the air fill your lungs, your chest expanding and then falling. The world seems to slow down for a moment. Your thoughts settle, and a sense of calm washes over you. You've just tapped into the power of breath awareness.
Myths and Truths about Breathwork
Breathwork classes and workshops seem to be popping up everywhere lately. From trendy city studios to peaceful online retreats, it feels like everyone's talking about the power of conscious breathing. And with this newfound popularity come some pretty big promises – less stress, healed trauma, even a deeper spiritual connection. It's exciting to see breathwork getting attention, but it's important to be realistic too. Some of these claims might be a little too good to be true, and it can be hard to know what to believe, especially when you are first starting off.
Everyone Starts at the Same Place
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Jennifer Kitzman
For the past several months, I have been toggling between two roles: student and teacher. I have been a student in a year long Breathwork Facilitator training program and at the same time, I have been a Teacher Trainer for S Factor, a feminine movement practice I have been involved with for over ten years.
Breathwork and the Nervous System
Your nervous system is a vast communication network within your body, responsible for everything you feel, think, and do. It's divided into two main parts: the central nervous system (your brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (all the nerves that branch out from your brain and spinal cord). The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a key part of this peripheral system, and it's the one in charge of all the automatic functions you don't have to think about