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Breathwork art

Ages 14+
NorthernShire, Underhill VT
Cost: $120/session or $500 for all 5 sessions
Spaces limited.
 

Workshop Dates

3rd Sundays November 2024 - March

November 17
December 15
January 19
February 16
March 16

12 -
6pm
followed by an optional
potluck dinner

 

​Throughout history...

Cultures worldwide have provided a means for people to access non-ordinary realms for healing and spiritual growth. Breathwork is a means of inducing an altered state of consciousness through full and connected breathing. An energy charge is created in the body, and as the energy disperses, it serves to release, or to cleanse blockages, both physical and emotional.

 

Possible experiences include...

Resolution and release of current problems, unresolved childhood wounds, birth memories, past life remembrances, encounters with archetypes (gods and goddesses, etc.), nature identification (i.e. the experience of being a tiger or a mountain), transcendence of time or space, and direct experiences of the primordial vibration in the form of inner light or music, deep peace or orgasmic states.


The process is...

Gentle, safe, and loving and almost every person will have a deep moving experience. As an added benefit, Breathwork is quite healthy for the body. You will be conscious the whole time and totally in control.

 

Please come prepared for immediate growth and a powerful experience.

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Click here to watch a video with more information on Breathwork.

Breathwork

Introduction
Dates & Registration

When one gives undivided attention to the breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a tender babe. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights of his imagination, he can become without a flaw. ~Tao Te Ching

Interview on Breathwork
Psychological Experiences

TV Show Interviews ReTribe's Jane Martin
and Ted Riskin about Breathwork

In 1973 an anthropological study found that 90% of the world’s cultures provide a socially sanctioned way to induce altered states. These include chanting, fasting, drumming, spinning/dancing, temperature extremes, sleep deprivation, extreme pain, meditation, sensory deprivation, and psychotropic substances such as peyote, ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, etc. We live in one of the 10% of societies that does not promote healthy ways to use altered states for growth and healing.

 

While Breathwork is quite powerful, it has the advantages of being totally natural, safe, and loving. Through the control of your breath you choose the depth of your experience. While no two sessions are alike, some commonly encountered experiences include those that are psychologically healing and those that are transpersonal (spiritual).

 

 

Psychological Experiences

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A note about experiencing memories – while it may seem frightening and undesirable to re-contact memories of difficult times, it is quite a different experience to recall them in Breathwork than to relive them. It is almost like watching a movie of them. In fact, most people report that it is quite pleasant and a huge relief. Contacting memories can be very healing in many ways.

 

According to Candace Pert, Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, unexpressed emotions are stored in our bodies as polypeptides in our nerve synapses. Just releasing the emotions from the body is a great relief. Going into a memory as an adult and changing the outcome or the interpretation brings lasting change. And quite often, the Breathwork setting allows for a ‘corrective experience’ meaning that now you can give voice to your anger when you were unable to before, or you can be held while you cry your tears, while in the past maybe no one was there for you.

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Core Beliefs

Accessing childhood memories where you might have taken on a core belief such as “I’m not safe” or “I’m bad” or “I’m not worthy”. These subtle beliefs are very difficult to access and heal through talk therapy, but they have a strong subconscious and pervasive effect on our lives. By regressing to the time you took on the belief, you can heal it at its source.

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Example: One woman remembered being four years old and seeing that her parents had packed her suitcase. She believed they were going to send her away because she wasn’t good enough. She vowed to “people please” to save herself, and this habit was permeating her personality ever since.

 

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Physical Healing

Contacting the psychological underpinnings to somatic illness can often result in physical healing.

Example: A woman came to Breathwork because she wanted to conceive a child and had been trying for 7 years. In Breathwork she recalled a past life (some people might call this a vision) where her baby was stolen from her. She had come to a deep conclusion that she carried with her unconsciously, that a baby wasn’t safe with her. She decided to spend 10 minutes per day focusing on how safe the child would be – her husband had a good job, America was a safe place, there were many loving relatives, etc. In two weeks she became pregnant with a beautiful baby girl.

 

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Grieving

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross teaches us that the grieving process includes five stages. Often people can’t manage to move through these stages and they never fully grieve (come to acceptance and let go) someone they’ve lost. They can carry a heavy weight of emotion for many years. It is a very common experience in Breathwork to move through the stages of grief and finally resolve. The setting of Breathwork is perfect and supportive for this process.

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Example: A woman was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder for 9 years, and had been a drug addict for the previous 11 years. During Breathwork she grieved the death of her baby 20 years earlier. Her depression lifted immediately.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Current psychological treatment protocol for PTSD centers on talking about the traumatic event. It is believed that accessing the affect (emotions) around the event is necessary for healing. Breathwork allows you to very strongly access memories in an altered state, to allow the emotions to flow, and to let the body physically do what it was primed to do (fight or flight) in that traumatic situation so that the fight or flight arousal cycle can release and the body can go back to a relaxed state.

 

Example: A 20-year-old man diagnosed with ADHD, recalled being raped 10 years prior, by his stepfather. Using a tennis racket and pillow, he let his body imaginarily fight off his attacker. Afterwards his ADHD symptoms all but disappeared.

 

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Energetic Healing

While energy healing is difficult to document empirically, many people report learning to open their chakras and unblock energy flow.

 

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Anger Release

For people who feel themselves always on the verge of anger, Breathwork is a godsend. In a totally accepting environment, they can 1) allow the body to release the anger energy safely without shame, and 2) access the hurt, fear, or sadness that is living underneath the anger and then take steps to resolve that.

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Accessing Underlying Causes

Causes of emotional eating, painful relationship dynamics, and anxiety.

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Spiritual Experiences

 

Visions

Direct meetings with archetypes, deities, etc. These visions always are relevant to the person’s current life and when interpreted like dream material, provide a strong curative direction.

 

Example: A man saw a white eagle flying in circles while its leg was held by a chain to the ground. On the ground were soldiers shooting at the eagle. He watched this from a cloud. In interpreting this vision he realized that one part of him, the eagle, wanted to fly free – his passion for life (the Freudian id). But another part of him chained him down and “shot at him” through self critical thoughts (Freudian superego). He realized that the eagle, though very powerful, was white, which was representing its intrinsic goodness and positive motivation. By becoming conscious of the fact that he was so self critical, he was then able to be more self accepting and assertive in the world.

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Past Lives

See example above in physical healing.

 

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Birth Memories

Birth is usually our first intense experience of life and according to theorists (see www.birthpsychology.com) it can have a profound effect on the way we view and experience the rest of our lives. In Breathwork some people re-experience their births and resolve the trauma and core beliefs from that experience.

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Nature Identification

Many people report being a tiger or flying as a bird, or even being a mountain. Often people experience many levels of evolution, being an amoeba, then a plant, then a reptile, then mammal, etc. Another common experience is flying through space.

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Direct Spiritual Connection

Many people report experiencing or merging with inner light, inner celestial music, ecstatic bliss states, intense energy flows, “knowing” God, or extreme affective states such as universal compassion or power or total trust. For those people who practice meditation, the strong state induced by Breathwork will often give them a ‘peak’ experience, allowing them contact with meditative states levels beyond where they are working.

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All of these experiences happen automatically. All you have to do is relax and breathe. Breathwork is totally safe. And while some of the above experiences sound painful, participants always report that they regard their experiences as positive, healing, and loving and very often deeply life changing.

 

If you have any questions about Breathwork feel free to contact Jane Martin.

Spiral made of sticks on the forest floor

​Potential Benefits

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  • Stress and anxiety management

  • Chronic tension

  • Respiratory problems

  • Trauma

  • Emotional release

  • Weight and body issues

  • Relationship and birth issues

  • Direct Spiritual Experience

  • Self esteem

What to Bring and What to Expect

Teen Breathwork Experiences at ReTribe:

 

A teen who had been molested by her older brother and had difficulties setting boundaries, learned to say NO and protect herself.


A teen who had a near death experience drowning, reliving the event in breathwork, and over the course of the week, working on healing her PTSD.

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A teen with a phobia of people dying, having a breathwork experience of a vision of a mass death. She describe this as a facing of and acceptance of death.


A teen coming out of inpatient for a suicide attempt one week earlier, found the love and connection she couldn’t get from her parents, and realized she could get this from other people in the world.

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A teen who had a psychotic break a month prior, had a breathwork experience where he decided to connect back into his body which had grown ‘roots’.


A teen who was sexually abused as a child, reconnect with her inner child, and express her rage, terror, and despair, and then ‘blow’ her persecutor out of the building so that she could feel safe again inside.


A teen with PTSD from seeing his brother killed, experienced, in Breathwork, a coming back into his body, which is characteristic of PTSD healing. He subsequently became much more present in life and he lost his previous robotic quality.


A teen with germ OCD went beyond the fear and then was able to go to college afterwards.
A teen with germ OCD cut his hand washing time by 75%

Spiritual Experiences
Potential Benefits
What to Bring
Teen Experiences
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