Breathwork: Exploring the Frontier of "Being" and "Doing".

From: Journal of Heart Centered Therapies | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: Breathwork is a powerful therapeutic modality. It provides a means to work on several levels: the physical, the emotional/psychological, and the spiritual. It accesses perinatal material (in utero and birth experience) and transpersonal material (archetypal, shamanic, and cosmic experience) as well as early childhood and repressed biographical material. Breathwork provides an excellent means of getting past resistance, including transpersonal defenses. We review research on the physiological effects of primal therapy and hyperventilation, and on statebound body memory, ...

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