Breathwork
We are so excited to offer breathwork as an additional way to expand your healing and growth beyond talk therapy!
We truly believe that holistic wellbeing comes from more than just one type of practice or therapy, and breathwork can be a great way of engaging the body as you heal and grow.
What is Breathwork?
Breathwork is the umbrella term for any type of intentional manipulation of the breath.
Many breathwork patterns have their roots in Ancient Eastern practices like Tai Chi, yoga, and Buddhism. There are dozens of different schools and types of breathwork that have evolved from their ancient origins, including the popular Wim Hof method and modern-day Pranayama (yogic breathing). Breathwork has been used to improve athletic performance, treat asthma, decrease anxiety and depression, enrich creativity, aid in personal growth, increase joy and happiness, boost immunity, and significantly reduce symptoms associated with chronic stress and trauma.
The New Tides breathwork sessions will be personalized to your needs, using the following evidence-based exercises as the foundation to transformation:
1. Functional Breathing
2. Conscious Connected Breath
Functional Breathwork
We breathe 20,000+ times a day. That’s 20,000 opportunities to either support your well-being, or unknowingly deteriorate it. Functional breathing, much like functional movement, is ensuring that you’re breathing in a way to support your well-being even when you’re not thinking about it.
When working one on one with Eliza, she might start by first addressing the foundations of the breath through functional breathing. Research shows that just by changing a few simple aspects of your breath can significantly improve anxiety and depression. For others, functional breathing might be only the beginning before diving deeper into the power of therapeutic breathwork through the conscious connected breath.
What to expect from a conscious connected breathwork journey
The conscious connected breath is a powerful breathwork pattern intended to enhance mindfulness and release any sensations and/or stuck energies and emotions held in the body. It's "conscious" because you will be encouraged to actively engage with the breath (instead of observing it as you would in meditation). It's "connected" because the inhales and exhales flow into one another in a circular rhythm. Doing this breath for an extended period of time might feel uncomfortable at first, but often leads to major breakthroughs in healing and growth.
During a conscious connected breathwork journey, Eliza uses the support of music to guide you through a journey to a “peak,” and then guide your nervous system back into a relaxed, supported way of being. The end of a session includes time for integration through journaling, reflecting, and sharing your experience. You can think of this as a complete reset for your nervous system so you can better manage difficult emotions and challenges as they arise in your day to day life.
Individual Breathwork Session Fees
90-minute session (1st session): $200
75-minute session (following sessions): $150
Frequently Asked Questions
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Pranayama, or yogic breathing, is guided during a yoga practice to increase mindful awareness while engaging in different postures and poses. Eliza might guide various yogic breathwork exercises, such as diaphragmatic breathing, during a session depending on your needs. However the conscious connected breathwork journeying is a very different style of breathing intended to actively engage the sympathetic nervous system.
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You may experience some sensation during a breathwork. Some common experiences include: dry mouth, tingling sensations in the extremities, increased heart rate, and unexpected emotional releases.
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Conscious Connected Breathwork should not be practiced by anything with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder or psychosis, unmanaged PTSD, epilepsy, acute heart conditions, COPD or pre-existing lung conditions, delicate pregnancy, unmanaged high blood pressure (or very low BP with fainting history), severe asthma, glaucoma and/or detached retina, or recent major surgery. If you are someone with any of these conditions, there still might be other styles of breathing that would be better suited for you. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions on this.
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Yes! Practicing breathwork from the comfort of your own home can be a great way to ensure comfort and safety. If you are interested in online sessions, we would be more than happy to accommodate.
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The breath is the bridge between mind, body, and soul. If you are wanting to deepen your connection to your body, explore your spirituality, build resilience to challenging situations, release stuck and unwanted energy and emotion in the body, let go of negative beliefs, enrich creativity, boost immunity, and significantly decrease symptoms associated with stress and trauma, then breathwork is a great option for you.
Breathwork can be a great body-based complement to more traditional forms of talk therapy. If you’re feeling like you’ve come up against a mental block, or you’ve exhausted the answer to the “why,” and you’ve started to ask yourself, “now what?” breathwork can support that next step in your healing process.
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This will depend on your needs and desires for engaging in breathwork. Eliza will support you in coming up with a personalized plan that works for you.