Article by Ryam Richards & Jonine Lee in the "Living Now" magazine.

I am in a state of perfect bliss, alternatively laughing hysterically at the absurdity of life and then crying because I feel so happy and loved. My heart feels so full that is about to explode. I can see my whole life's journey with great clarity.

LIVING NOW MAGAZINE
A JOURNALISTS EXPERIENCE of CORE CONNECTION BREATHWORK THERAPY with Jonine Lee

More than that, I can see my soul's and humanity's journey, and it is funny. Funny, that we all take it so seriously. Funny that I feel so separated from the truth of my own profound connection to infinite love, the love that some people might describe as God.

I am experiencing the climax of a guided Breathwork session with an experienced teacher Jonine Lee. During my session I have been lead into gentle connected breathing, where each deep breath  is connected to the next, in a continuous unbroken cycle.

This simple process affects your physical body and leads most people into a state of expanded consciousness. To get to that state I needed to release any emotional traumas locked into my body as cellular memories. Fortunately for me just a few, the primary recall being of a time in my mother's womb. I saw myself clearly as an embryo and felt the powerful emotions I experienced as a conscious being, just before birth.

This extraordinary technique was  initially developed by two key people, Leonard Orr and Stanislav Grof.  Essentially the core approach is the same - that is the use of conscious connected breathing to work with the psyche and clear unconscious patterns.

Stanislav Grof born in Prague was working with patients in a Czechoslavakian mental asylum when he noticed that those who had the greatest transformations had started to spontaneously breath in a certain way prior to the change. He started experimenting with this technique and found it consistently had dramatic results and called his way of working with a conscious connected breath, Holotropic (towards wholeness) Breathwork.

Leonard Orr was involved with the Human Potential Movement in America in the early 70's and discovered quite by accident after falling asleep in a hot tub that the connected breathing brought on by being in warm water affected his physical and emotional bodies. He, as I did, experienced tangible tingling in the body, particularly the hands and other areas where emotional trauma was held. Because many clients in these early days recalled their birth experience and were able to change decisions they made at that time, he called it Rebirthing.

More commonly called Breathwork by practitioners today it is not simply about revisiting your birth although this can happen. Breathwork  supports you to identify and clear unconscious negative thoughts and perceptions blocking and stopping you from reaching what you desire  in any area of your Life; physical health, career, relationship, lifestyle, finances.

Breathwork/Rebirthing developed over a period of 45 years, is spreading rapidly across the planet. It has gained a reputation as a technique that can bypass the conscious mind, and lead to a rapid release of old emotional blocks. Blocks that could be affecting someone's physical and emotional well being now.

What happens during a session is unique for every person and for every session, depending on what you want to focus on clearing or creating.

Breathwork works because  you release old, powerful and sometimes scary emotions, An experienced therapist always guides you through the process. To reach the state of bliss I experienced, it is well worth it.