5 reasons why you need to try breathwork

What’s all this buzz about breathwork?

You might have heard it referred to in business circles, athletic circles, fashion circles, spiritual circles, healing circles or any other inspiring circles you can think of.

It’s become the new trend in self-development, or put simply, it’s a safe and natural tool for feeling high, energetic, joyful, clear and relaxed. This technique envelopes all modalities and influences people in all walks of life, simply because it is done with the most simple and basic tool we all have: breath.

Modern breathwork is based on a very simple, circular breathing technique which plugs you in, until you’re vibrating with so much energy that the release of the breath, and your surrender to it, brings you to states of extreme bliss, clarity and downright fun.

Freeing your breathing mechanism through this simple, yet dynamic exercise brings physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological balance. I suppose the most common side effects are feelings of relief, freedom, love and clarity.

Sounds like it’s promising too much? Why not try it and see what learning to use your breath has to offer.

When you breathe in a circular way, 'prana' - or life energy - builds up in your body. This build up intensifies and the energy becomes like a surge rushing through your body, clearing out any points of accumulated tension and bringing a natural feeling of balance and harmony.

Once you learn how to use your breath in this way and you free yourself of all the accumulated blockages in your body and mind, the energy build up keeps taking you higher. LIFE energy starts to run through your blood, keeping you motivated to create and do. Your breath becomes your motivating force when you use it consciously. Breathing properly improves everything it is applied to.

Breathwork is a deep state of awareness. An alternate state. When you focus on your breath and give yourself space and time, epiphanies about your deepest memories and thoughts change at a cellular level. A new form of clarity and freedom enters your consciousness, maximising your intuition levels and creating flow in both working and personal environments. In other words, you yourself sort your mind out in the most clear and beautiful way.

It promises to elongate states of no – mind or “mindfulness”. It keeps you in the space between your thoughts, without effort, for much longer.

Breathwork has a relieving nature. It adds a new dimension of joy and energy to your life so it becomes fun, light and easy - the way it’s meant to be.

Katia Boustani is a Breathwork Master; globalbreathingawareness.com. Katia is hosting a tantra and conscious breathing workshop on February 14 at Farmacy