Breathwork
Breathwork
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breathwork sessions,
functional breathing guidance,
or holistic coaching with tailor-made structure and support,
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With love,
Hanna
Scroll down to learn more about the power of breath.
What is breathwork?
Breathwork is an umbrella term for breathing techniques which can be used for specific situations, goals or experiences.
Functional vs. dysfunctional breathing
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Breathwork is also about becoming aware of whether or not your breathing patterns are functional or dysfunctional. If the latter, you can receive guidance and help your body relearn and reclaim the functional breathing patterns you were once born with.
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It is of value to investigate root causes of dysfunctional breathing, and work on treating them. Doing so it will increase the chances of living a more vibrant and healthy life. For most, it results in less anxiety and depression, better sleep, increased energy levels, and improved libido, to name just a few.
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Optimising lung capacity
​By improving day-to-day breathing patterns, and training
the pulmonary assets through specific breathing techniques, there are many benefits to be reaped. A central, and longevity-related, benefit is that breathwork will help optimise lung capacity. This is especially beneficial for any physical endurance, for musical performance, for public speaking, and for those suffering from asthma and COPD.
Balancing gas exchange
It is also very much beneficial for anyone who wants to improve mood, feel less anxiety, gain more cognitive clarity, or enhance a state of flow. This is because breathwork is a power switch for regulating the central nervous system, and a tool to support your body's homeostasis, by improving the gas exchange (oxygen–CO2–nitric oxide).
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A tool for purification & emotional release
Breathwork can be used to improve health and well-being in everyday life, or as a tool for purification on occasion. When joining a breathwork session being guided through, for example, ancient Tummo breathing, it usually brings immediate effects such as increased vitality, improved mood, a strong sense of rejuvenation, and meditative effects such as a de-cluttered mind along with increased creativity, metabolic repair on a cellular level,
A biochemical cocktail & natural high
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A breathwork session is sometimes a cathartic experience, which may bring strong emotional release, and therefore it is a powerful way towards inner healing, loss of stored-up emotions or old trauma, and feeling purified from inside and out. For some, it feels like rebirth. It is perfectly safe, and a practice which can be returned to over and over again, throughout life.
Practicing certain breathing techniques will result in increasing levels of feel good-hormones and chemicals such as natural opioids. Not only is this a way of improving mental health, physical well-being and strengthening both the immune system and the brain's prefrontal cortex (associated with decision-making and stress resilience).
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Breathwork is also a natural and safe way of exploring and moving between different states of consciousness. Various sensations can occur during a session, e.g. to feel high, as well as very much in tune, anchored and grounded. Afterwards, you will most likely feel both calm, relaxed, and alert. ​​
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Addictive personalities & brain biochemistry
All humans have something to gain from the power of breath. Breathwork is especially great for those with addictive brain biochemistry, who wish to live life in sobriety and recovery. Partly because breathwork is like drinking from the well of your Self and experiencing a spectrum of physical and emotional sensations. It is also the antidote to a racing mind. For many, it becomes a positive and healthy outlet, a new –and safe– addiction.
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Breath as medicine
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Another reason is that by improving the gas exchange, and implementing breathwork as a part of your lifestyle, you will re-wire your brain's neural pathways, making it easier to create new and healthier habits, delay gratification, and much more.
Connection
Thirdly, but not lastly; breathwork brings increased connection. With others, but perhaps most importantly, with oneself – holistically.
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Breathwork testimonials
Hanna is truly a down to earth,
calm and grounded person.
She brings a warm stillness and welcoming energy for everyone that comes to her sessions.
She is also an extremely knowledgeable professional within the field of breathwork and
knows how to guide and tweak
the breath of her clients so that their personal needs are met, regardless
of what they might be; physical as well as mental.
Highly, highly recommend you pay her many visits.
Kajsa D
I booked one of Hanna’s breathwork classes when I was on a spontaneous Stockholm-visit.
With her warm and welcoming energy, she guided the group through a truly magical experience!
Afterwards, I felt uplifted, energized and at peace with myself. I recommend Hanna’s sessions to everyone looking for tools to deal with stress, release energy and simply feel better.
On top of it, you are up for a real
wow-experience!
Victor Å
My first breathwork experience was
a surprisingly positive experience! Like giving yourself an act of love.
Hanna’s presence is calm and loving.
I felt very safe all the way through her guiding, and she leaves space for you to also steer your own way, exploring your breath.
I had an emotional journey, where I felt I had the opportunity to really practice self-love, space to pause and give room for my emotions to be felt and healed.
Afterwards I was calm and excited at the same time, and felt lots of gratitude.
Thank you Hanna!
Ester F
My first breathwork class was at hale center in Stockholm with Hanna.
Thanks to her professional, conscious
and pedagogical approach, I instantly fell in love with breathwork.
Today, 10 months later, I have attended more than 140 breathwork sessions.
Oscar S
The science on the power of the breath
Follow the link below if you want to learn more by diving deep into the vast collection of 600 scientific studies on the power of the breath, put together by the American science journalist and author James Nestor.
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Breathwork science​​
Photocred: https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/about