Breathwork

So, on Friday night, I joined a short introductory breathwork session hosted by John Paul at breathing journeys. I didn’t really need an introduction to it, so felt a little bit of a gate crasher, but I wanted to join a guided breathe and John Paul let me tag on. Breathwork became part of my life in 2022, when I found John Paul through a friend. I’d had a breakdown, (didn’t really recognise that at the time,) but that’s what it was! Anyway in a bid to move forward and heal myself I went through ten sessions of breathwork, it released trauma my body had held for years, it helped me process the feelings associated with that. I journaled my way through it, I wrote poetry; some probably pretty badly but it was an outlet. My main focus throughout the work was to improve the relationship I had with myself, my self esteem and self confidence were always low and in all reality I loathed myself, I masked to get through life. The gentle art of conscious connected breathing helped me with that, and every now and then I like to join a breath session to connect to remind myself of that. If you have questions about my experience of breathwork I’m happy to answer, if you have questions about the actual breathwork then John Paul is the man. So for me, breathwork, swimming and writing have now become the three integrated elements that help me live my life. Oh and my waterproof camera comes in the water with me all the time as I love capturing nature from the water.

https://breathingjourneys.com