The Approach

How you breathe is how you live in the world.

Breath is the first tool of connection that bonds our inner with our outer. Since our early childhood, one of the main roles of our nervous system, apart from regulating our heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, food digestion, etc…, is an inner and outer scan of cues of physical and relational safety to ensure our survival. Often, this protection comes at a cost of our own personal freedom and expression. It can make us feel stuck in our past or blocked in surviving, rather than fully living. These adaptations force us to trade our authenticity with external approvals to feel safe and loved. Those adaptive strategies and emotional memories have created deep unconscious programs and wounds in us, like “I am willing to sacrifice myself for the sake of being accepted”, “I don’t want to exist, life is too tough”, “my parents are never wrong, it’s my fault”, “it’s not safe to express and be myself”, “it’s too painful to feel my feelings” and many more. These programs carry guilt, shame, self-doubts and fears in our body and end up running our life to the extent that we confuse them for who we truly are, believing that these are our character and nature.

The key is not about fixing, forcing, transcending or bypassing those patterns, but rather honoring them because they were there for a reason and they saved our life. With curiosity, consent and self-agency, this approach opens the door to inner safety again, where we allow our inner child and authentic nature to express and liberate itself with no judgment and morality.

How can we access our deep unconscious inside the nervous system? Cognition and logic can’t have any command on the nervous system, but breath can. Indeed, it is the most simple and organic key to access our whole being. On the level of the dynamics and mechanics of the breath, the body is our biographic map, which informs us of all those emotional patterns. For example, is the breath in the chest or in the belly? Is it fast or slow? is it continuous or interrupted? Is it relaxed or forced?

As a facilitator, I guide you into your transformational process through a deep and full conscious connected diaphragmatic breath, with the support of somatics, toning, body movement, and systemic affirmations. Physically, this allows the body to open and receive more air and life force. Emotionally, it helps integration and reconnection with parts of the self that got repressed. Spiritually, it brings personal growth, well-being and awakening to a broader sense of life.