As I move into more wellness spaces and in an effort to share the practices that have helped me halt an autoimmune disease and continue to heal, I wrote this piece to share what is possible for anyone to experience during a single breathwork session.

Come with intention. Set your space. Stand on both feet equally and feel your steadiness as you connect to Mother Earth. Know that you are a powerful being. Surrender to this moment, set the ego aside and feel that anything is possible. Imagine, dream, visualize and embody your intention.

As the music starts, gently begin to move your body. What feels good? The point is to wake up the energy that lies within you. Move stagnant energy and release it back to the Universe. Close your eyes, feel your body and move, shake, dance, squat, plie’, box, kick (just make sure you are in a strike free zone!)…..whatever your body is calling for….honor it. It knows what it wants….just tune in….and listen.

After several minutes of movement, you will be invited to lay down on Mother Earth. Feel the support of her beneath you. Know that you are safe. Close your eyes. As the music plays, feel the vibrations and tones moving through your body. Visualize these tones as colors, shifting, fading, growing and moving throughout your body. Feel this energy cleansing, renewing, feeding and healing your body. Turn up this energy by engaging in the vocal toning, humming and auming. Releasing stagnant and negative energies with every audible exhale and more creation of the magic molecule, nitric oxide. This is your time. Surrender and give it your all. Move the body as it calls for. Adjust, surrender and relax deeper into Mother Earth with every exhale, remembering your power and that you are safe, worthy and loved.

And now we turn it up….even more. Breathing in rhythm with the music, without force or strain in the breath. Simply letting it move in through your nose bringing it through the heart and into the belly, expanding the diaphragm and releasing through your mouth, again allowing the sounds to move through you as your body is asking for. Cleansing, growing the energy, releasing and renewing. This rhythmic breath creates a sense of peace, states of flow and physiologically encourages heart coherence, strengthens your heart rate variability and is excellent for everyone.

After several minutes of rhythmic breathing, you will be gently guided to fully inhale and then release all of the air from your lungs, (provided your are not experiencing any contraindications) and then invited to sit in this ultimate state of surrender. The fear will arise, but again know that you are safe. You are powerful. This is the deepest state of meditation whereby when going beyond your current level of comfortability you build endurance, resiliency, cardiac strength, strengthen your immune system, growing your carbon dioxide tolerance and increasing your oxygen efficiency. This practice can mimic high altitude training that many high performance athletes subject themselves to regularly. This is where the magic happens.

During the breathholds you always have permission to take in small sips of air and then releasing, but aiming to push yourself beyond your limits where you create growth, change and ultimately manifest your intentions. Connect. Visualize. Feel. Embody.

At the end of the empty lung breath hold period, you will be guided to breath fully in, taking in fresh oxygen which is then able to be readily pulled into your bloodstream and bodily tissues because of the rise in the carbon dioxide in your body, physically renewing and recharging your whole system. It’s like a fresh cleanse and reset for the nervous system. Inhaling and holding in this breath at the top, while visualizing this new energy moving through you and being supplied to your whole being, illuminating ideas, inspiring you, connecting you to your inner power and the infinite universe that you are a very part of. Surrendering to the ego, surrendering to the fact that you are a very small part of a collective consciousness, collective energy, is where within the power lies. This IS your power. Your Source. Your Light. Your God-given birthright. Tune in, tap in and thrive. Unlock and unleash your inner power.

This is just one round…..you choose the path to create your ultimate journey.

Namaste.