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THE PROCESS

Lucid Breath is a dynamic breathing technique that gives you the opportunity you to get in touch with yourself on a very deep level that is not accessible in your everyday life. Through conscious and full breathing you can reach an expanded state of consciousness. This allows you to connect with your own potentials, to process and integrate experiences you made throughout your life and dissolve old patterns that you might feel stuck in as well as it allows you to reconnect to all parts of yourself - Lucid Breath enables transformation on many different levels as it promotes to nourish a different relationship with yourself - especially when done regularly.

The process itself is very intuitive: we combine a form of deep full breathing with stimulating and evocative music-sets in a private and protected setting. With every minute your journey will become deeper up to a shift into a non-ordinary state of consciousness.

The effectiveness of Conscious Connected Breathwork for many aspects of our mental well-being is scientifically supported and the subjective experience is recorded as similar to medium to high doses of psilocybin (read more here).

In our sessions we follow a psychodynamic approach. This means that once you reach this non-ordinary state of mind, the unconscious part of yourself will lead you to the places that want to be seen and experienced.

This is why every journey will be different and the focus of your journey will differ a lot (bodily / emotional / visual). Lucid Breath is not a guided meditation - it is a deep encounter with your own unconscious in its pure richness, beauty and deep inner truth that it has to show you.

We, Kilian and Stella, will instruct and encourage you to figure out what emerges for you as you do the work, where you can think of us as your travel guides who make sure you feel guided and supported in every moment of your trip.

What are the benefits of Lucid Breath?

Benefits of Lucid Breathing can include:

• Self-Exploration: it can provide a unique and intense way to explore one's inner self, including suppressed emotions, memories, and insights. This can lead to greater self-awareness and personal growth.

• Emotional Release: Participants often report experiencing deep emotional releases during Lucid Breath sessions, which can help individuals process past traumas or emotional wounds which might also caused chronic pain.

• Stress Reduction: The deep breathing techniques can help reduce stress and promote relaxation. This may lead to an overall sense of well-being.

• Increased Creativity: Some people experience that the altered states of consciousness reached during the sessions can stimulate creativity and problem-solving abilities.

• Spiritual Insights: For some, Lucid Breath can be a spiritual or mystical experience, offering insights into the nature of reality, consciousness, and existence.

• Enhanced Self-Integration: It's suggested that Lucid Breath can facilitate the integration of different aspects of one's self, helping individuals to feel more whole and balanced.

• Community and Support: Lucid Breath sessions can be conducted in a group setting, which can foster a sense of community and support, as participants often share their experiences and insights and feel seen and acknowledged by others.

Last year a new study was published that further backs up many benefits with scientific data (free access PDF):

Bahi, C., Irrmischer, M., Franken, K. et al. Effects of conscious connected breathing on cortical brain activity, mood and state of consciousness in healthy adults. Curr Psychol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05119-6

OUR AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

Anxiety Issues

Chronic Stress

Depression

Burnout

Sleep Disorders

Panic Disorders

Grieving Processes

Developmental Trauma

Shock Trauma

Abuse

Transgenerational Trauma

Chronic Pain

Breathing Difficulties / Repiratory Issues

While we are convinced that every person benefits from a regular breathwork routine (we ourselves also follow our own routine), we want to encourage everybody who has specific needs / issues and wants to work on these to get in touch with us.

We have worked with clients which had (among others) the following issues:

THE HISTORY OF TRANSFORMATIVE BREATHWORK IN WESTERN CULTURE

After LSD became illegal in the late 1960s, the Grofs, who had been proponents of the therapeutic effects of LSD, developed holotropic breathwork. The technique was created to achieve psychedelic-like states without using psychedelic drugs. The Grofs were trained in Freudian psychoanalytic therapy and believed that the process of deep self-exploration brought on by these altered states can bring healing because they foster an emotional understanding of who we are and why we feel and behave in a certain way.

Lucid Breath understands itself in the tradition of this therapeutic approach. We use the breath as a means to access deeper layers of the human psyche. Therein differs Lucid Breath from behavioristic approaches. Our aim is not to regulate but rather to connect to ourselves and by doing so, one gains the freedom to transform what is no longer needed and what has been causing one's inner suffering