Breathwork + Meditation
This breathwork is a gentle yin-style breathwork and meditation practice. We use a Wim Hof Method breathing pattern but in a slower than typical rhythm and within a breather's own comfort levels. It is important to stay connected to one's body while gently stimulating and charging one's nervous system without causing overwhelm. This style of breathwork can greatly help to:
In this method we typically do several rounds (3 to 5) of breathing and then end with a 5-10 minute meditation.
Each round consists of about 35-40 breaths with each breath being a full (100%) inhalation followed by a gentle (80%...without pushing the breath) exhalation. At the end of the each round of 35-40 breaths we exhale and hold the breath out, typically for 90 seconds or more. With each additional round most breathers find that holding the breath out becomes easier and easier. But each person is encouraged to find their own rhythm and comfort level during the practice.
During this pause of out breath, you are encouraged to relax. The body has plenty of oxygen at this point. So even if the conditioned mind begins to greatly desire the restarting of the breath, you are encouraged to just observe that desire and stay relaxed. There is a great opportunity in this "pause" to "drop back" into being the Witness and observe the conditioned mind and all the sensations arising in our awareness. This alone is a powerful practice for life. (Note: If you are new to breathwork, and find this part very difficult, taking a little sip of air is quite ok as well.)
After the pause is over, you are prompted to take a deep full inhalation; to hold that full breath in for 15 seconds, and then exhale. At that point the next round of 35-40 breaths will begin.
As mentioned above, after a 3-5 rounds of this there will be a period of 5 to 10 minutes of meditation. Many breathers report having a deeply easeful, relaxing and quiet meditation. Some feel a surge of emotions and others report having an experience of sliding into an expanded blissful state of consciousness.
Each time one brings themselves into this breath and meditation practice, the experience that is felt is often different. I encourage you to give this a try a few times over the course of a few days and see how it feels for you.
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about this practice, breathwork in general or want to find out how to go deeper with breathwork.
Blessings - Randy
- Release tension that is stuck in the body
- Calm the mind
- Relax the body
- Feel energized and alert
- Support and deepen of one's mediation practice
- Integrate psychedelic and other peek experiences
- Potentially access expanded states of consciousness
In this method we typically do several rounds (3 to 5) of breathing and then end with a 5-10 minute meditation.
Each round consists of about 35-40 breaths with each breath being a full (100%) inhalation followed by a gentle (80%...without pushing the breath) exhalation. At the end of the each round of 35-40 breaths we exhale and hold the breath out, typically for 90 seconds or more. With each additional round most breathers find that holding the breath out becomes easier and easier. But each person is encouraged to find their own rhythm and comfort level during the practice.
During this pause of out breath, you are encouraged to relax. The body has plenty of oxygen at this point. So even if the conditioned mind begins to greatly desire the restarting of the breath, you are encouraged to just observe that desire and stay relaxed. There is a great opportunity in this "pause" to "drop back" into being the Witness and observe the conditioned mind and all the sensations arising in our awareness. This alone is a powerful practice for life. (Note: If you are new to breathwork, and find this part very difficult, taking a little sip of air is quite ok as well.)
After the pause is over, you are prompted to take a deep full inhalation; to hold that full breath in for 15 seconds, and then exhale. At that point the next round of 35-40 breaths will begin.
As mentioned above, after a 3-5 rounds of this there will be a period of 5 to 10 minutes of meditation. Many breathers report having a deeply easeful, relaxing and quiet meditation. Some feel a surge of emotions and others report having an experience of sliding into an expanded blissful state of consciousness.
Each time one brings themselves into this breath and meditation practice, the experience that is felt is often different. I encourage you to give this a try a few times over the course of a few days and see how it feels for you.
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about this practice, breathwork in general or want to find out how to go deeper with breathwork.
Blessings - Randy
Recorded Breath-Mediation Sessions
________________________________________________________________________________________
|
This meditation is a gentle yin-style breath work with 4 rounds of 40 breaths each. At the end of each round the breath is held out for an increasing amount of time - from 1.5 to 2 minutes.
This meditation is a gentle yin-style breath work with 5 rounds of 40 breaths. At the end of each round the breath is held out for an increasing amount of time - from 1.5 to 2+ minutes. In this recording there is an initial 4 minutes of guided meditation before the guided breath work begins.
This meditation consists of 4 rounds of breath work with a combination of techniques. The first 2 rounds are 40 breaths each with the breath held out for 1.5 to 2 minutes at the end of each round. The second 2 rounds are each 60 breaths but with the breath held in for approximately 2 minutes at the end of each round. | ||||||
|
Randy Lind, CMT ADVANCED MANUAL THERAPIST CA Cert #2007 Office: 1955 Cleveland Ave, Suite 204, Santa Rosa, CA www.SantaRosaAdvancedManualTherapy.com 707.536.1540 |