DYNAMIC BREATHWORK
Heal yourself, one breath at a time
Jesse Torgerson
First Look
Dynamic Breathwork is a clearing process that combines an easy-to-learn breath technique with a system of somatic points. This combination is profoundly effective in accessing and integrating unresolved experiences from the past in the safety of now. Well-being automatically emerges as fear and tension release and integrate.
The thinking mind is never in the present moment. It is always past/futuring. As it projects the past onto the future, it skips the present moment altogether. It doesn’t know how to be present in the now. It is an outpicturing or commentary about now. To get to NOW, the focus needs to be on sensorial experience. When we focus on the breath, we are focusing on this present moment experience. NOW is a doorway into the spaciousness of our being.
Dynamic Breathwork is a profoundly effective and safe skill for accessing and releasing physical and emotional holding patterns which inhibit breathing, creative flow and general well-being. By bringing breath and awareness to the felt sense of the present moment, the bodymind is allowed to clear itself of deeply held tension and fear. As a result, clients can expect to experience increased well being and confidence in their inborn ability to clear themselves and thrive.
The practice of breathing brings us back home to our self. The body/mind has the capacity to heal itself, to release and metabolize traumatic experiences. When an experience is fully experienced, it is integrated into the wholeness of ourselves. Head,heart, body come into alignment and work together. Awareness is the integrating factor. When we notice this moment’s sensation in our bodies, present moment state of being, the commentary and thoughts about the situation, we are digesting this moment’s experience. We are in it but not of it.The experience is gotten, understood and the body has metabolized the chemistry of the moment
Dynamic breathwork is a self empowering tool. We are all fully equipped to resolve the grief and loss of the past, as well as the anxiety and fear of the future. We do it by bringing our full attention to this moment. We have the capacity to be fully present in the now. We have the capacity to be aware of being aware. Conscious awareness is fully present in this moment. We can’t do the future or the past, we can only do right now: this instant, this room, this perception, this sensation, this breath. I am here right now. This is happening. I’m watching myself in operation. I’m noticing my thoughts, my state of being or aliveness, various sensations, images, smells. Right here, right now. I’m letting go of all of my muscles as I let go of the breath I am sliding into the experience of me unconditionally without judgment. I’m not judging the sensation/feeling and I’m not judging myself for having it. I think of myself as a big open space that allows the coming and going of experience as it arrives and then dissolves. It’s all the wholeness of me.
We have been taught to brace ourselves, that bracing ourselves somehow makes us safer. It doesn’t really make us safer though. Bracing constricts and makes us tighter. it impedes the flow of life energy. It disrupts the rhythm of our breath that left alone would mimic the tide. Bracing holds the breath, constricts the diaphragm, stops the flow of in and out. It creates numbness and anxiety. It doesn’t let it out and it doesn’t let it in. It keeps us stuck in our minds past-futuring and skipping the present moment all together.
Dynamic breathwork gets us here, in this instant, out of the box of our thinking mind. It teaches the skill of letting go. So instead of bracing and tightening up, we are letting go of our breath and letting go of our muscles. We are dropping our muscles on the exhale into the experience of this moment that is unfolding and becoming. We are a big open space that embraces all that we appear to be.
I am the experiencer and the experience.