Community Breathwork
March 21, 2024 8:30 pm CET | Online - Zoom Meeting
Date: March 21 2024
Time: 6am AEDT / 1.30pm PDT /3.30pm EDT / 7.30pm GMT / 8.30pm CET
Location: online
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: donation-based
About the Breathwork
Breathwork is a practice involving intentional alterations of your breathing pattern to influence your mental, emotional, and physical state. It has roots in various traditions and disciplines, from ancient Eastern practices like yoga and meditation to modern psychotherapeutic techniques. The practice encompasses a range of breathing methods designed to induce relaxation, improve mental clarity, and promote emotional healing.
Odin will offer different arts of breathwork: under breathing for nervous system down-regulation and over breathing for emotional processing. The session will often take the form of a breathwork flow practice, moving through forms of breathing and making sure everyone leaves the container in a regulated way. It will mostly be guided with music.
This week: expect a dynamic breathwork session exploring the power of over-breathing, in combination with breath holds.
What to expect?
- Emotional Release and Healing: It can facilitate the release of repressed emotions, leading to increased emotional well-being and reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression.
- Stress Reduction: By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, breathwork can help reduce stress and promote relaxation.
- Improved Physical Health: Enhanced breathing techniques can improve oxygenation of the body, boost energy levels, and strengthen the immune system.
- Increased Self-awareness and Mindfulness: Engaging in breathwork can enhance mindfulness, helping practitioners become more aware of their internal states and thought patterns.
- Spiritual Connection: Many find that breathwork provides a pathway to experiencing a sense of connectedness with something greater than themselves, deepening spiritual awareness.
Schedule
- Open & Centring
- Check-in
- Breathwork Explanation
- Breathwork Session
- Sharing
- Closing
How to Prepare
- Don’t eat a heavy meal just before the session. Ideally, have your last meal 1 to 1.5 hours before the breathwork.
- Create a quiet and comfortable space for yourself, where you won’t be disturbed. You might want to use a yoga mat or a comfortable surface to lie down on.
- Have a blanket nearby, you might get cold.
- Wear comfortable clothing that doesn’t restrict your breathing.
- Get some headphones or good speakers for a better experience.
- Wear an eye mask if you feel safe doing so.
- Approach the session with an open mind and without specific expectations. Be willing to embrace whatever experiences arise.
Contraindications
You shouldn’t take part in the breathwork if you are experiencing:
- Cardiovascular disease (angina, previous heart attacks, or strokes)
- Detached retina
- Glaucoma
- Aneurysm in the brain or abdomen
- Kidney disease
- Severe Asthma
- Epilepsy
- Prior diagnosis of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or previous psychiatric condition
- Pregnancy (depending on the stage you are in)
Your Guide: Odin Pepper
Odin is a Psychedelic Coach and Breathwork Facilitator, working with Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, which combines advances in neuroscience with the gentle inward-looking practice of Mindfulness.
He started coaching in 2019 and is familiar with Nervous System Regulation, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, MDMA and LSD.
How to reserve your spot
Fill out this form to take part in this donation-based Community Breathwork session: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQ6zvA6JILusL76VFuxJK8t3704ihWe7yR2d4xL6i_VZm6hg/viewform
