Nov 21-23, 2008
Breathing seems to be such an automatic and natural response from our well-designed bodies. However, many of us hold our breath or experience shallow breathing, mirroring how we live and breathe in our daily lives. This workshop is designed to help you reclaim your natural and full breath and will contain mini lectures, demonstrations, personal processes, discussion, and sharing.
You will be guided to inhale and exhale correctly, using a soft and circular breath, opening and releasing held back breathing patterns in your body. We will focus on the upper body, where our lungs and heart center reside. Breathing into this area fully will bring precious oxygen to our system and help us eliminate toxins stored in the body. Our life force, also called prana energy, travels on the breath. Breathing in this continuous fashion is the foundation for physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Increasing our ability to breathe fully brings more vibrancy into our lives and helps us to discover who we are on a more essential level. The Art of Natural Breathing facilitates an expanded state of awareness making it easier to clarify our true purpose in life.
Begin to learn to facilitate a breathing session for another person. Notice how and where the breath is being held back. Open up restricted breathing patterns. Initiate the body’s natural healing process.
Dunja Carlson-Moeller, Ph.D., has done extensive research and clinical training in medical anthropology. She wrote Gentle Medicine, a book on cancer research in the alternative medical culture. She has worked at the Center for Psychology and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, where she chaired an academic and interdisciplinary forum addressing healing and social change. She is both an Unlimited Body and Unlimited Breath Master Practitioner, is certified in Postural Integration (deep tissue structural bodywork), and studied Jin Shin Jyutsu (Japanese Acupressure).