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Breather’s Digest
Breathwork tips, resources, and experiences by Flow Breathwork Facilitators
Mind, Body, Spirit: How Holistic Health Serves as Reparations
Did you know that reparations can take many forms, including the gift of health and wellness? Imagine a world where every community thrives with health, peace, and prosperity. By bringing holistic healing practices to underserved neighborhoods, we can create a road toward life-changing healing, reduce healthcare costs, and build stronger, safer communities.
Breathwork for Beginners: A Guide to Start Breathing Exercises at Home
While there's no magical solution to make all of life's problems disappear, breathwork is a practice rooted in ancient wisdom that's catching mainstream waves due to its effectiveness in enhancing mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Whether you're seeking stress relief, better focus, or a boost in energy, breathwork offers a natural and accessible path to wellness. Here’s a brief guide to help you get started from the comfort of your own home.
Brave New You: How to Start Your Healing Journey and Create a Life You Love
Healing is a journey of the heart, mind, and spirit, and it takes immense courage to face our wounds and seek wholeness, whether we're overcoming heartbreak, trauma, or simply finding inner peace.
Reclaim Your Body, Reclaim Your Life: The Healing Potential of Breathwork for Women
Breathwork and somatic healing offer profound benefits for women, both physically and emotionally. Breathwork is a practice that involves conscious breathing exercises; it can help women manage stress, anxiety, and even chronic pain.
How to Heal From Burnout with Breathwork
Healing from burnout through breathwork can be a transformative journey that taps into the body's natural ability to restore balance and calm. Burnout often results from chronic stress and overexertion, and can leave us feeling mentally and physically drained. Breathwork offers a simple yet powerful tool to counter these effects, promoting relaxation and rejuvenation.
How Breathwork Helps Your Holistic Healing Practice
Incorporating breathwork into your holistic business can profoundly enhance the overall well-being of your clients while distinguishing your offerings in a crowded market. Breathwork is an ancient practice that involves controlled breathing techniques and promotes mental, emotional, and physical health. By integrating breathwork sessions, workshops, or classes into your services, you provide clients with a powerful tool to manage stress, increase mindfulness, and improve their overall health. This holistic approach aligns with the growing trend of wellness-focused lifestyles and can attract a clientele looking for comprehensive, natural methods for self-improvement.
A Loving Reminder to Ignite Joy in Your Healing Practice
Reigniting joy in your healing practice can be a transformative experience, both for you and for those you help. Here are some simple tips for igniting joy into your healing practice.
How You Can Use Breathwork to Enter a FLOW State
Breathwork, an intentional practice of controlling the breath, can be a powerful tool for entering a FLOW state, which is a state of heightened focus and immersion in activities. FLOW is often described as being "in the zone," and it allows individuals to perform tasks with greater efficiency and creativity. By harnessing the power of breath, one can calm the mind, increase mental clarity, and enhance overall performance.
Reflecting on Representation in Healing Spaces as an AAPI Wellness Practitioner
As Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) and mental health awareness month wrap up at the end of May, I’m reflecting on my experience of being a South Asian wellness practitioner during this month.
Breathe Deeper, Stress Less: How Breathwork Can Rebalance Your Body
Stress is a fact of life, but how we manage it can make all the difference for our health and happiness. Did you know that your body has a built-in stress response system called the HPA-axis? It's a complex network of glands and hormones that helps us cope with challenges, but when it's constantly triggered, it can lead to burnout and even health problems.
“Would You Kindly” Choose Yourself? Musings from a Recovering People-Pleaser
If you've ever felt suffocated by the need to make everyone happy and comfortable, if you find that you often sacrifice your own well-being because you don’t want to let anyone down, this is your invitation to exhale a little bit.
Three Spiritual Practices for Beginners
No matter where you are on your self-love and spiritual journey, it’s always nice to come back to the basics. In all honesty, spiritual practices can literally be anything. But, when it can be anything, it makes it harder for beginners to decide where to start!
Are you doing it right? Is there another way that’s better? Is it working? Ahhh!
Here are some super easy practices that anyone can start with.
Fitness Girlies: Just Because You’re Breathing Doesn’t Mean It’s Breathwork
“Why would I do breathwork when I’m already heavily breathing while working out? What’s the difference?” PSA: Fitness as a recovery tool isn’t the same as a healing modality like breathwork. Keep reading to learn two important differences including the major fitness shadow to look out for.
A Holistic Approach To Wellness For Recent College Grads
A new generation of young adults are about to enter the world in a few short days! This time brings great excitement, elation, and of course, confusion. With this new chapter beginning, comes new habits to adapt and build for optimal wellness. But the truth of the matter is, most college students didn’t have a proper opportunity to learn about wellness and well-being. What is that, self-care? For many, it meant skipping meals, pulling all nighters, rushing to meet deadlines, imbalance in social and school life, and generally no real habits of wellness. Even worse, no one probably even had a conversation with most college students to prioritize wellness and well-being.
Learning How to Channel Healthy Rage
Do you ever find yourself running away from intense emotions like rage and anger? There are so many factors that have taught us to view these feelings as inherently negative: cultural and societal conditioning, family mythology, “high vibez only" mentality, and a general fear or reproach from uncomfortable and intense emotions, to name a few. They all signal that instead of embracing them as part of the human experience, rage and anger are to be suppressed or avoided at all costs. But what if we shifted our perspective and learned to funnel the energy of rage into fuel for positive change?
Beyond the Breath: Flow Breathwork Certification Cultivates Cultural Competency in Healing Practices
Cultural competence and sensitivity are essential principles that shape the effectiveness and inclusivity of healing practices. In Flow Breathwork Training, these principles are not just emphasized; they are woven into the very fabric of the training.
Three Tools Every Coach Must Have
As the coaching and mentorship industry is booming, it’s becoming more common for individuals to seek support in personal, financial, spiritual, mental, and physical wellness. Regardless of the industry, coaches and mentors desire to support their clients through incredible transformations. Whether it’s helping somebody through a business goal, healing through self-worth and confidence, helping establish beautiful routines and rituals, or anything that a person need support on, there’s a coach for that.
Inhale, Exhale, Decide: Should I Facilitate Breathwork for One, or Many?
Recent and emerging research continues to confirm what ancient wisdom traditions have known about breathwork for millennia: that it's a powerful tool for transformation and healing. Whether practiced in a group setting or one-on-one, the benefits of breathwork are undeniable. Even so, the decision to develop a solo breathwork practice versus holding group spaces is a personal one, and each offers its own unique advantages.
How to Use Breathwork to Enhance Your Vagal Tone
The vagus nerve may not be a topic that comes during casual conversation at brunch, but its role in our bodies is nothing short of extraordinary. This nerve -- which is actually a bundle of nerves -- stretches from the brainstem to the abdomen, and acts as a key regulator of vital bodily functions such as heart rate, digestion, and breathing. Functionally it’s like the body's built-in chill pill, helping us relax and restore balance when activated.
A Basic Guide to Brain States (and why they’re useful!)
Learning how to influence brain wave states to induce specific effects isn't just for scientists, mystics, or Stranger Things. It's a practical method for anyone with a desire to manage stress, boost productivity, and optimize cognitive function (basically everyone, yes?). We’re going to break down the basics of this dynamic aspect of the mind, where our brain waves hold the keys for supporting our mental performance and overall sense of well-being.