Breath is life.

Breathing is deeply connected to energy.

Breathing is deeply connected to awareness.

Breathing seems to be so simple, we do not even pay much attention to it, as it is mainly an automatic physical function.

Yet it is not without reason or significance that for thousands of years, especially in the East, that breathing is used as a form of meditation. More recently in the West breathing is also used as an emotional therapy.

Breathing in a particular manner can produce specific emotions, notice how your breathing changes when you are angry, also notice how you breathe when you are afraid or sad. Each emotion has its particular rhythm, speed and depth; and if those emotions are not welcomed then they can also be suppressed by restricted breathing. But by suppressing our emotions by suppressing our breathing we also then suppress our life energy.

Thus Breath Therapy works towards releasing old restrictive patterns of breathing in order to release old blocked emotions and allow our life energy to flow again.

However, Breath Therapy can be limiting if it remains only on the emotional and energetic levels, just as the West is incomplete without the East, or as Osho would say ‘Zorba is incomplete without the Buddha.’

By adding practices of breathing with awareness, we can discover much more about our breath, our life and our consciousness. We can find that the gaps or turns in the breath, between the in and out breath how their own quality and impact upon our consciousness. We can also gain deep insights by directing the focus of our awareness to different parts of the body, and the seven major chakra energy centres.

Thus breathing does not happen only on the physical level, it connects us to our emotions, our thought patterns and our consciousness.

In this workshop we will be practicing both the emotional and energetic forms of Breath Therapy plus various more subtle breath consciousness techniques, such as the breath meditations from Osho’s talks on the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (Shiva’s meditations).

The only prerequisites for participation is to be in normal good health. (In case people with acute respiratory conditions or asthmatics wish to join, seek your doctor’s permission and bring your inhaler.)