THE ENRICHED BREATH METHOD
How is your breath, right now in this very moment?
Take a few minutes to sit and observe your own breath.
Don’t change it or do anything differently, just observe how you are breathing. Becoming conscious of our breath is the first step in changing the way we breathe for improved mental, emotional, and physiological health.
Here’s an invitation to make these check-ins part of your day. Perhaps first thing in the morning, on your lunch break, out on a walk, driving, before dinner, and when settling into bed. Notice how your breathing shifts throughout the day based on your level of stress, your state of mind, and other factors that occur throughout your day. (Your previous night’s sleep may also influence how you breathe!)
What do you notice?
Is it shallow? , Is it Deep? , Is it fast?
When was the last time you paused to check in with your breath?
Yes, we breathe every minute of every day, we have to, to survive. HOWEVER deep connective and restorative BREATH can be life-altering, and throughout this web page, I’m going to share more with you on why.
Enrich your breath
How your Breath Affects the Nervous System:
Our breath has an intimate relationship with the state of the nervous system. In fact, it may actually be the fastest and most effective way for you to shift your state and regulate your nervous system. For example, if you begin breathing faster, into the upper chest only, particularly in and out through your mouth - you will activate the Sympathetic Nervous System [SNS] (fight or flight). Unfortunately, there is a “loop” that we tend to get caught in when it comes to stress and breath.
You see, SNS activation causes the breath to speed up - which, in turn, triggers more SNS activation. This can result in a state of chronic hyperventilation, or over-breathing - just one common dysfunctional breathing pattern. Other dysfunctional breathing patterns include only using the upper chest to breathe and/or frequently holding your breath. These dysfunctional breathing patterns are actually very common - and strongly linked to a host of mental, emotional, and physical health problems.
Enriching your breath enhances your overall wellbeing
Alison’s personalised sessions are not a cookie-cutter approach, each session will meet your unique needs as needed for each session.
She will support you in focusing your attention and identifying where and how past trauma (developmental as well as shock trauma) and traumatic stress are being stored in the physical body and how they manifest in health conditions within your body, not just your mind.
This may include chronic tension, pain syndrome as well as behaviours that are no longer serving you.
As a client, you will be supported to identify the connection between physical tension, pain areas, and trauma-related patterns.
During the session, we will utilise the concept of felt sense, verbal support, and counselling as well as focused breath and movement exercises to connect to, mobilize and start to release trauma and stress-related physical, emotional and mental tension.
Giten’s online sessions have proven to be profoundly effective in supporting clients to release self-destructive behaviours such as addictions and negative thought patterns as well as improving conditions such as diabetes, nerve damage, and visual impairment. This is achieved by bringing attention to the physical body and releasing tension originating in past traumatic events.
Alison will support you in identifying and creatively using your internal and external “resources”, bringing you toward the lasting experience of enhanced feelings of safety, relaxation, aliveness, and vitality.
This leads to the reduction of trauma and traumatic stress-related activation within your body and in daily life.
As a client, you will be given ‘homework’ in the form of daily self-practice in breath, felt sense exercises and active meditation.
Individual sessions are conducted via Zoom and last approximately 75 minutes.
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Trauma aware in Breath work
ALISON IS TRAUMA & ETHICS INFORMED
Alison, holds a strong focus on understanding how and why trauma may show up in a person, with a focus on creating safety as the primary requirement for your healing to take place. Safety is non generic and therefore we must become attuned to the individual and group requirements in any breath work session.
By developing a clear knowledge base around the many reasons for how and why trauma may arise, Alison ensures her work with you is done so in a safe, confident and competent way
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