Holotropic Breathwork

The term holotropic is derived from Greek roots, holos, meaning “whole” and trepein, meaning “to turn, lead, guide”. Thus, Holotropic Breathwork may be defined as breathwork that leads to or turns us toward wholeness”.

Holotropic Breathwork is based on the assumption that we all have a mechanism that serves as an inner healer, a drive for pursuing wholeness, which can be accessed within a suitable context such as Holotropic Breathwork provides. Anyone seeking healing for trauma, malaise, illness or depression may benefit from the practice, as well as those seeking insight or guidance.

Holotropic Breathwork combines accelerated breathing with evocative music and close one-on-one supervision in order to access insight and healing in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Entering a non-ordinary consciousness, in this context, activates the natural inner healing process, generating experiences unique to each person for that particular time and place. Breathers often experience recurring themes, but no two breathwork sessions are ever the same.

The experience is entirely internal and largely non-verbal, without interventions.

Vaya’s meditation experience…

 

It is very hard for me to relax…It takes me too much time….When I try to fall asleep, it takes me at least 20 minutes to drop my whole weight  on my layer. For the reason below, is getting hard to close my eyes- which is the only pure way of relaxing- I have been avoiding this kind of healing. The eyes’ closing- life’s windows- is connected with darkness and thus I feel  I am guided to the lack of life beside me, the sense of loneliness, loss or void. I do not hesitate to express this kind of phobia..

So I was not too vulnerable to have a group meditation…

I enter to a room I met before, without having expectations. It is a reliable aspect of mine in order not to judge and accept the ‘here and now’.

I have the others’ energy around me  and it becomes easier to relax and not scare. I am closing my eyes and I let myself surrender to the leader’s soft voice and some conductions.. It is too easy to get trapped  in ‘the here and now’. During the general and inhale-exhale process, I feel heavier on the ground. My thoracic cage becomes softer, my inhale procedure still  doesn’t’ t have a continuing flow. As the time goes by, this ‘continuing issue’  arises and  I find myself to be more friendly to the suspension points of dead calm. My thoughts are trapped in somehow but  these moments are few, so I go back to my leader’s voice. I appreciate that I am warm, and floodlighted from the top of my head till my foot toes…My seed of my hair and my eyelashes are involved too…I sense  I concentrate too much on some parts of my body, that I lose it on other at all…As a result of this I feel that I  lack of some useful parts of myself…I am not threatened  but as a first time it’s quite uncomfortable.. My continuing accumulation to the  inhale-exhale procedure leads to the wavy movement of the spine observation, the birth of life, which is being imparted  across the body and  my fingertips. I am aware  of this micro-movement and I let it happen and I appreciate  a kind of aliveness..I am alive!

My thoughts serious or not, are like sea gulls that meet each other and leave, flying in a wide sky..Nothing strange is left, all issues derive from me and without reason.

Is this my real self? It can be,  if I leave this room?