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Description
These past few months have sent shocks to our nervous system as we try and find, at best, stability, and, at worst, outright control, of events that are explosive. The wake-up calls of Covid-19 and the essential fight against racial inequality call for us to shed old skins that no longer fit. It calls for movement and flow instead of hiding and getting stuck.
Through this breathwork group, let's take a pause and work through stressors and any residual shame and guilt that they, and your response to them, are causing. We'll build a safe container where you're held by me and others in the group so that you can create a greater flow of emotional movement. Hopefully, afterwards, you'll be more in touch with what's behind any paralysis and gain clarity about how you can move forward.
Tickets and Resulting Donation
Tickets are sliding scale, and 20% of the proceeds from this breathwork group goes to the @blackgirlsbreathing, an initiative to make virtual breathwork sessions for Black Womxn free for 1 year.
Why 20%? I'm committing to pay forward 20% of every group breathwork event from now through the end of the year to BIPOC causes. Full transparency of the paid donation will be provided via Instagram after each event.
What's breathwork?
It's a three-part breath with two inhales and one exhale, repeated rhythmically. You perform it lying down, and it's a much more active form of meditation.
What's it look like to do breathwork at a virtual event like this?
Be sure to create a calming space for yourself: wear comfortable clothing, prepare a supportive surface to lie down on, and have a blanket and pillow ready.
Even though you may be solo for this session, you're still energetically part of the virtual group, and because of that, the open, loving community helps provide support and encourage fearlessness on your part.
We'll start the session by grounding and chatting for a bit.
Then you'll lie down and place your laptop/phone so that you're visible from the waist up.
I'll lead you through the active part of the breathwork where you'll do that three-part breath for an extended period of time. I'll help guide you and try to hold things steady for anything that may come up.
After that, you'll get to enjoy a still, quiet, restful meditation.
What's the result?
Like everything, it's best to show up and just be in the process and leave the results to the universe. That said, as you get further into the breathwork session, your mind gives way to your body. You often feel physical sensations that are of a higher vibration. That moves energy internally so that you can let go of the mental chatter way more easily than just walking around thinking.
And it's that bit of open space that brings a feeling of lightness, a feeling of connection, and often clarity about things you're seeking.