Embodiment Lesson 4: Breathing Into Alternative States of Self
When all else fails...try these subtle changes in breathing to find yourself
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Welcome to the fourth lesson in my series teaching you simple steps towards Embodiment or, as I like to call it:
Embodiment Practices and Teachings for Less Than 15 Minutes A Day!
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To actively start to engage in any embodiment practice, it’s important to gain more and more tools that support your own capacity to consciously breathe. This means PRACTICE. AND practice in my world means PLAY!
By engaging in these short videos with a mind that is willing to just relax and let go and open to see what happens, you will start to bridge that ever so important connection between your brain and sensations in your body that go beyond thoughts.
As you learn to bridge mind and body more, you’ll eventually be able to feel sensation without needing to immediately turn it into a thought to undertand it. This is what creates the ability to have the body be an unlimited resource for growth into body as teacher and self as embodied being.
This time around, I’m bringing you into the choice to shift your state of being using breath methodology. The idea that all you need to do is take a deep breath to calm down is actually pretty simple. This lesson goes beyond this concept and invites you to consider that different kinds of breath create different changes in your physical state.
The first all important concept here is to check in with yourself. Just like we check in with needs, boundaries, and triggers in personal work, it’s essential to also check in with how your body feels in the moment. From there, you can choose to enter into three different types of breath - flow, charge, and release. My suggestion…Try all three! You might find you like one more than another.
EMBODIMENT LESSON #4
EMBODIMENT EXERCISE(s) #4
Below you will find three different videos with three different types of breath for three different shifts in state of being. If you are feeling tight, rigid, or stuck, try the FLOW BREATH. If you are feeling disembodied, scared, disconnected, or you just plain don’t have body sensations, try the CHARGING BREATH. If you feel overhwhelmed, emotional, triggered, tense, stressed, or angry, try the RELEASE BREATH. I invite you in the comments below to let me know which one you like the most.
FLOW BREATH
CHARGING BREATH
RELEASE BREATH
I hope you enjoyed these videos. Thank you for watching, breathing, and embodying with me.
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I am a multidimensional being. The concepts I share in these videos are a result of years of study and my own practice. Because of this, there is not one specific root to what I teach. The practices you will encounter are based in Energy Medicine, Kundalini Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Dance, and Breathwork. I will do my best to give sources and credit as required. I have found for myself that by engaging in multiple types of movement and philosophies makes it so I can utilize what is right for my body as it changes. You are invited to do the same. Don’t judge what doesn’t work. Just be open to trying something new!