Breathwork Magic
Welcome to Breathwork Magic, a podcast dedicated to exploring the life-changing power of Breathwork. Discover how conscious breathing can unlock inner peace, resilience, and clarity as we dive into inspiring stories and practical insights. Whether you’re new to Breathwork or looking to deepen your practice, each episode offers wisdom to help you connect more fully with yourself and the world around you. Everything starts and ends with the breath.
Breathwork Magic
Why Breathwork Deserves 3 Chances
What happens when years of shallow breathing, unprocessed emotions, and a fast-paced lifestyle finally meet the healing power of breath?
In this inspiring episode of Breathwork Magic, host Amanda Russo speaks with Alicia, an Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Consultant with over two decades of experience in marketing, public relations, and entrepreneurship. Alicia shares her personal journey from living in constant tension to discovering Breathwork, a practice that helped her release deeply stored childhood trauma, calm her nervous system, and reconnect with her body in a profound way.
Amanda and Alicia explore the many layers of breathwork’s impact, from emotional release and nervous system regulation to improved endurance, better sleep, and everyday mindfulness. Alicia also offers practical, accessible techniques for calming anxiety on the spot, insight into why so many people breathe incorrectly (especially women), and her evolving perspective on “healing” as a return to the soul rather than fixing something broken.
🔹 Episode Highlights
[2:21] – Alicia’s first introduction to Breathwork and the emotional shift it sparked
[3:53] – The beach session that released years of stored childhood trauma
[6:22] – How societal habits lead women to breathe incorrectly and hold tension
[10:29] – Breathwork’s surprising impact on physical endurance and stamina
[11:58] – Nightly breathwork practices for deeper, more restful sleep
[20:59] – Quick, discreet ways to regulate the nervous system anywhere
[24:31] – Naming emotions without judgment to promote emotional health
[32:01] – Upcoming retreats and the shift from “healing” to soul reconnection
This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking simple yet powerful ways to release emotional blockages, regulate their nervous system, and reconnect with their true self, one conscious breath at a time.
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Welcome to Breathwork Magic, the podcast that explores the life-changing power of your breath. Breathwork isn't just a practice. It's a gateway to healing, transformation and shifting to a new mindset, by letting go of the past and embracing the possibilities of the present moment and embracing the possibilities of the present moment.
Speaker 1:I'm Amanda Russo, your host, a certified breathwork facilitator, level two Reiki practitioner and creator of the Mander's Mindset podcast. On my own journey, breathwork has been a powerful tool for releasing what no longer serves me and shifting my perspective to step into my fullest and greatest potential. Each week, I'm joined by inspiring guests, blood work facilitators, healers and wellness enthusiasts who share how this practice has helped them and their clients heal, grow and embrace lasting change. So take a deep breath in and out, settle in and let's explore the magic of your breath together. The transformation starts now. Welcome to Breathwork Magic, where we explore the life-changing power of your breath. I'm your host, amanda Russo, and I am so excited to be here with Alicia today, and she is an emotional, intelligent and leadership consultant with over 20 years of experience in marketing, public relationships, public relations and entrepreneurship. Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me on here. I love breathwork and I love that you're doing a total podcast around this because it's so life-changing. Once you incorporate all the principles and all the things into your life, it's definitely a beautiful path that people can take.
Speaker 1:So when did you discover the power of our breath?
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. So I think I grew up in like very tense like this all the time and so I had very shallow breathing. And it wasn't until I took a breathwork class about four or five years ago and I was like, wow, this is really cool. Like I started to feel some release. It was very basic breathwork. It wasn't anything really heavy, intense, but it was kind of magical in a certain way because I was like I could feel the energies that were moving in the room and everything that was taking place through it. I thought, wow, this is so fascinating, I can learn to do this myself. So I was like I want to do this and I want to help other people and teach it.
Speaker 2:So I started down the little rabbit hole and I got certified in breathwork and then I started incorporating it. I started watching so many videos on it and all the different techniques and then started really learning about how slowing your breath down, how it calms your nervous system down, and at the time I kind of knew about nervous system work, but I over the past couple of years I've really went very super deep into it and so I didn't quite understand what it was doing, but I knew, I felt much calmer and I was releasing some emotions. And then I didn't quite understand what it was doing, but I knew I felt much calmer, I knew I was releasing some emotions and then I would bring up, tears would come up. And then I had a really I think two about two years ago. I had a really amazing session. That was on the beach, it was a group of us at a like a conference and I was able to release a lot of my childhood trauma I'm talking about really stored emotions and I just cried for like an hour. All I did was just like well, and I just felt it release the certain techniques.
Speaker 2:So there's more techniques to this than just your typical four, four, four, six, eight. You know, breathing. I'm like, wow, there's really something behind it. Wow, there's really something behind it and it was this visualization, uh, this like a 3d brainwave music that was going around and had headphones on and it was, I don't, it was life changing. It was like super life changing to me and so I was like, if this is something great, like because I've been doing breath work with my clients through some of their sessions, you know, do meditation, a meditation teacher too, and then healing.
Speaker 2:So I was kind of moving back. Whatever I was guided to do with them, I was like this would be fantastic, let's start doing some more techniques of like really releasing emotions, cause it was more like trying to calm them down than really going. I mean, I'll do some up and some up, up down, you know, but it was like let's try some different stuff and get the stuff like constantly go flowing and out and out and it was I don't know. It's just been fascinating to see. So yeah, that was my journey through breathwork. Just remembering, I kind of stumbled upon it.
Speaker 1:So so you said you did your first class about four years ago. I took my first class. Yes, how soon after that did you get certified? Oh, approximately, like less than six.
Speaker 2:Yes, how soon after that did you get certified? Oh, approximately like Less than six months. Ok, so you know, I hear something I wanted to add on, like this is another little tool that I love, and so I knew about that time I was launching into my coaching business. So when my life coaching business on had, and so when I was doing that, I was like this is a great, is like a great tool. So I went to, honestly, went down the rabbit hole and got a ton of certifications. I got sound healing certificate, all kinds of different stuff. I don't do sound healing, but that's.
Speaker 2:But I've really found a love of breath work, and so I feel like I needed to find different modalities. I mean that really resonated with me. And when you think about it, we are breath, we are breath, we are life, and so Prana is life and breath, and so if we're not breathing, we're not living. And so now I was able to really hold. I'm like I noticed myself more when I'm holding my breath in. I'm like, okay, what's what is causing this breath that I'm holding in, what is causing all this, and what do I need to? Okay, I feel a anxious when I'm feeling I can go on, get down the you know the layers of questions like why am I feeling anxious right now? Oh, it's because, oh okay, I don't feel safe right now. So how can I make myself feel safe? By breathing Simple, placing my hand on my heart and just taking that deep, that huge breath in. And it's so fascinating.
Speaker 2:I do a lot of speaking around service system regulation and it's fascinating to see these men that are in their seventies and eighties and they're doing this breath work. They're like that feels good and I'm like you probably haven't breathed in like 70, 80 years, you know, like a good, deep breath of just like relaxing breath, and it's beautiful, I love it. It's part of my favorite things of speaking at these, at some of these, you know, networking events. It's beautiful, I love it. It's part of my favorite things of speaking at some of these networking events. It's just fascinating and they're like people don't think about how breath is so, how it's so connected to every single thing in our life.
Speaker 1:I know they just do it automatically and you don't even have to think about it, but it's like, oh, you breathe in consciously.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know we're breathing through especially ladies are breathing through us like this, instead of going to just let us let like, just let it out, just let it out. Don't hold your stomach in. Quit holding your stomach in because you can't breathe correctly.
Speaker 1:I know, and as women, so many women do that Like even I remember as a middle schooler doing that, so I would look a little slimmer yeah.
Speaker 2:We're holding it in and we're just so scrunched up and we're like no wonder we're so tense, because we're holding in our breath we can't breathe.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy that like that's sucking in your stomach and nobody people don't talk about how like that makes it where you can't breathe. I never talked about that as like, like a teenager, because I don't do that now and when I was a kid like 10 to 14, I was sucking in my stomach all day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I still catch myself. It's a habit. It's like okay, you just you were sucking just a little bit, but not like to where you can't breathe.
Speaker 1:You're like you got certified about six months after you did your first class, and how was your it?
Speaker 2:was easy. I did everything. I actually did it all online so I didn't have to go, and it was right after covid, when all they still had all the online certifications you could take, which were fantastic because people can go in person. So I got the knowledge that I needed and I'm a very intuitive and so the breathing patterns that I teach and go through, like with my clients are is very intuitive, and so I'll create these scripts, but then I'll something will tell me.
Speaker 2:But they need to. We need to move into a different pattern or let's slow it down a little bit. Or they're not kind of as I kind of noticed them and I work with one-on-one mostly with. I will teach some classes here and there, but I work one-on-one with most clients here and there, but I work one-on-one with most clients and so I'll notice their breath patterns and if they're almost like they're just they're not breathing correctly, they're not breathing in through their, you know, breathing all the way up and the hold, you know. If they're not doing all that, it's like okay. So we need to go back and kind of slow down a little bit, pay attention to the breath as opposed to then like the results of the Excel, so it's all the breathing into it. So it's hard to explain exactly what I do, what goes on through my intuitive brain here, but that's really the way that I like to approach it.
Speaker 1:What would you say is the biggest difference you've noticed in your own life from incorporating Brackle?
Speaker 2:Oh my God. So I love examples. So I used to run when I about 10 years ago and I don't like running but I thought, oh, it'd be a really cool thing, I want to be a runner, Cause everyone's doing like 5Ks I was like, oh yeah, and I get it there, Like love the adrenaline and love the rush of it. And so I stopped running because my knees really honestly went out, kind of started going out on me as I got older and I was like, why am I doing something I don't even enjoy doing? Well, I got back on the treadmill about a year and a half later after I hadn't been. I used to do Orange Theory all the time too, which is where you're basically running for 20 solid minutes and then you know it's very endurance based. So I didn't about a year and a half. I didn't do any of that. I'm focused more on yoga and strength training.
Speaker 2:I got on the treadmill and I could still do the same sprints, but what I had been doing was breath work in between that too. So I had been working on my breath and I learned how to breathe. I think a lot of like. I think that's such a great. You know people who are like I don't really care about the woo portion of it or I don't care about the nervous system portion of it. It's good for your overall endurance that I'm finding.
Speaker 2:And so I was actually really proud of myself. I was like, wow, I can still do. I mean, I'm not in the great, best thing shape, but I can still do all these all outs and not have to like catch my breath like I used to have to be. And so I think that's some of the biggest things and also the nervous that knowing that when I'm like getting stressed out, that I always have a technique and tool that can do in front of anyone. I can sit and be sitting in a meeting and doing breath work and nobody's going to know I'm not doing all out stream breath work, but you can do a box breathing and you can calm down very quickly, and so to me, it's just having these little tools in my pocket there that just makes such a huge difference in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I completely agree. I like how you mentioned that you can do breath work without anybody even knowing it's a box breathing. You know it's a term that there's so many different types of breath work, ways to do breath work, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's all the energies that you want to bring in if you want to. You know I love kundalini breathwork. That wears me out. That's an endurance, you know. So it's all that. But at night it's like I try to practice 15 minutes at night and I sleep much better the nights that I do that. I'm not perfect at it, but the nights that I do remember to do, oh, I should probably do some breathwork and breathe through. Then I notice that my sleep is much more regulated. It's much better. I have an easier way of falling asleep than the nights that I don't do it and I wake up like, oh yeah, I should have did breath work.
Speaker 1:So what does your breath work routine of practice look like?
Speaker 2:It is. Sometimes I will find a breath work something on like Insight Timer, or I will find something on YouTube. I will do that. But sometimes I'll just sit in for 15 minutes and just breathe Again, intuitively, naturally, like how do I feeling?
Speaker 2:And noticing the sensations in my body, trying to get embodied into how I'm feeling, what's all, what's kind of going on in the day, where do I feel tense inside my body, body, where do I feel stress or worry or fear, where I feel excitement and kind of go in, breathing into those particular areas. You know, if my, like right now, my the back of my neck is sore from sitting on my computer all day, so tonight I'll probably sit and I'll breathe, hold that and breathe into that area and start, and that starts to relax. It's a mind really, a mind control thing too, but also starts to relax and so I always at night slow my breath down as much as possible so I'll breathe in as much as I can and I'll hold it for as long as I can and then I I will excel, just slow, so I'm calming my again goes back nervous system, calling that vagus nerve down towards relaxed and now I'm curious what breathwork looks like for your clients.
Speaker 1:Do you do it with all of them? Is it a client by client basis?
Speaker 2:so all my clients that there are, obviously you want to. If you have heart conditions or you have lung conditions, and I've had a couple clients I have had some type of health insurance or have the health conditions. I always have them verify with their doctor if it's safe to do it and what types. And they've've always come back and said, yes, please do. They're like, yes, that's really good for you. So it works.
Speaker 2:Like some months we won't do it, some months we'll do some breath work and then sometimes we'll do a 15, 20 minutes of it and sometimes they'll show up. We're like, okay, let's do five minutes of deep breathing, let's walk through some deep breathing practices to start to calm down. When you mind your mind you're going to go into because I do emotional like a lot of things I do is very emotional aspect and so we want to get to those emotions. But we can't get those emotions if we're not breathing. We're just up, we're just and we're still in like fight, flight, freeze. And we're just in like fight, flight, freeze and we're just our nervous system's like so we've got to calm the nervous system down where we can actually process through those emotions. That's going on. So it's all different. I mean it's all again, it's all intuitive, it's all different.
Speaker 2:I don't work with one person the same way I'll work with another person and it really just depends. Some people don't like breath work, and I totally understand. I'm fine with that and we won't do any breath work until they're open for it. So some people just they just want to do this and that's fine. There's so many different modalities, so I guess I'm saying anyone is like give it a chance, and if you don't like it, give it another chance. And by the third chance, if you don't like it, then okay, it's fine, it's not for you and that's totally fine. Just keep make sure that you're still breathing throughout your day.
Speaker 1:I like how you said to give it three chances.
Speaker 1:You know, I think that's key with a lot of things. Even actually, my mentor, who got certified me in Blackwork, says that like you won't know if something is for you after one time Okay, maybe you will, but like I knew after one Blackwork session and seems like you did, but like you might not. You know, even if it's not Blackwork session and seems like you did, but like you might not. You know, even if it's not breathwork, even if it's something else, like you might do it once and be on the fence. You might not know. You know, like give it a second shot, give it a third shot, like and then if it's not for you, it's not for you, but like something that regulates the nervous system, something that gets you out of the mind. You know, like I think with coaching and I don't even do coaching, but I've talked to other coaches something that gets them out of the mind, you know like a little bit and to drop in, yeah, some people that's journaling can do that, can get you and get your body.
Speaker 2:Some people that's met a dick and straight meditation. A lot of people. There's a lot of people that don't like meditation. That's a lot, you know. That's totally fine for them, not for me. I will still try to push them on meditation, that's totally fine. But then maybe breath work is a good option for them, especially if you're trying to meditate and your mind's going a million different ways. Step, step into that breath because you could pay attention, you can concentrate on that breath and when you're concentrating on your breath, you're in your body and you're not in your mind, and that's the whole.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of the purpose of breathwork is to get you out of your mind, as you said, and fully into your body. And there's so many different reasons why you need to do that. We could spend like a thousand years talking about that, but we want to come to a solid, you know, mind, body, spirit integration, and in order to do that you do have to come out of your mind and breath work is, to me, is probably the easiest. Even concentrating on your breath is the easiest way to do that.
Speaker 1:I agree. I agree that it's the easiest you know because you don't have to talk, you don't have to think, you're just with it. Even with the journaling you're thinking. Everybody's different, but you know what I mean. So I'm curious what would you say is the biggest thing you've noticed in one of your clients that you've incorporated work with?
Speaker 2:Oh man, at the end they are like, whew, that feels good. They're like I realized I haven't really been breathing all day long, like, of course, no, you have not. And so I get that a lot. It's like you know they're coming, they're super tense and then once they get into it and they start stop thinking about how they're breathing. So when we go into it it's always you're still conscious. You're like am I, am I doing this right? It's like, okay, just breathe natural. You know, let's go back to the natural breath.
Speaker 2:And when they we get back into the flow of it, by the end of it a lot of times they're tired because they don't want to take a nap, because it is a pretty, it's an intense process when you're doing certain type of breath work. But I've noticed they seem a lot. Their faces they seem a lot calmer faces. They seem a lot calmer. They seem they're more into themselves by their by into something like their body. They're more embodied. They're able to kind of go about their day in a different mind frame. You know they can come in with all this stress and anxiety and by the time they're in they're kind of like I forgot all about it, which is such an amazing thing, because that's really what we want to do.
Speaker 1:That is so true. Now I'm curious if you've noticed, have you incorporated meditation with your clients?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, we do primarily meditation and then we'll add in breath work as needed to start really like oh, you've got a lot of emotions, let's start, let's get some releasing. So, yeah, I do tons of meditation, I love meditating.
Speaker 1:I'm curious the differences that you've noticed, or if you've noticed a shift when you added the breath work with just the meditation.
Speaker 2:I noticed that they're more able to. So I work with people who are typically they do some meditation maybe, or they've tried it, but they haven't really succeeded in it. By in it I mean continuously there's no like non-success in meditation but they haven't continued on with it. They don't. They're not regularly a regular practice of theirs. By the time that we start working, by the 90 days of regularly meditating, that's when they're things they see the benefits of it, and so I teach them how to go into that and I teach them with that.
Speaker 2:A lot of it is with starting with some breath. The breath is like, okay, we're going to breathe in for a count of four and then we're going to lease and I have to tell them how to breathe in. Don't breathe in like this, breathe in all the way up, and they're like, oh, this is, and they notice the difference on it. So. So once they start to do that, then we can kind of go a little bit deeper into meditation when they have the breath under control.
Speaker 2:But if you're sitting there and trying to meditate and you're not breathing, you're holding your breath, what's going to happen? Your brain is going to go into anxiety mode and what's all the things you have to do. I've got to do this, I've got to do that. This is happening, this is happening, this is happening. Oh, a squirrel here, a squirrel there, with your breathing and even concentrating on your breath. Then your mind starts to relax and your body starts to relax. You can get into this deeper state of consciousness that I love to go down, and that's the meditation I teach and I do with my clients, as I teach them how to go into more of a conscious, spiritual meditation of really connecting to their soul and their body and breath is a great way to get there.
Speaker 1:That makes a lot of sense. Now you do a lot of nervous system work you've mentioned. I'm curious if you have any simple ways that people can start regulating their nervous system.
Speaker 2:All right, we're gonna back to the breath and it's the simplest breath that you've heard like 100,000 times and people still don't do it. A simple box breathing or a simple count of four, hold for six and release for eight, because when we're breathing up and we're releasing quickly, we're getting more energy built up, but what we want to do is relax right and we relax into it. So it's that simple box breathing, simple things as just moving, noticing how your fingers feel, and you sit there and you can do this in meetings. People that do this, you know they're nervous. They don't realize that they're actually calming. They're subconsciously calming their nervous system down Because they're noticing the touch. They're moving, like moving your, just moving your shoulders, your head. I mean movement is so nourishing for your nervous system.
Speaker 2:Going out for a long walk or short walk, however long you have, doing simple things like that, noticing the colors, like do you have your? Like I have my water here, the mindfulness portion of it is noticing. I'll take this drop. How refreshing that was and just kind of how you would describe it. Like the water feels soft to me. I have some flavoring, some electrolytes in here, so it's a little sweet and a little salty. So noticing those things is really going to bring your nervous system down, because you're paying attention to this, not paying attention to the cat or the tiger in the corner that's about to prowl on you.
Speaker 2:So super simple stuff that you can do and most people I mean.
Speaker 2:You can sit there and drink your water and doing that in a conversation and noticing that I'm going to pay attention, to try to be more mindful in my water because I'm going to calm my nervous system down and nobody's going to know that you're doing that.
Speaker 2:Nobody's going to know when you're. You can under your desk or wherever in your pockets. You're doing this to your fingers or you're moving your fingers or you can still pay attention to conversations, but maybe like I'm sitting here noticing your beautiful eyes and your hair and I'm taking notice, and then I'm smelling the air air smells and like using all of your five senses that you have, and so that really brings your nervous system down. Another trick that actually a coach taught me is you could put your hands behind your head, you look up and then you look to the right as much as you can until you feel like you're going to sneeze or blink, and then you move to the left and you have to just do it with your eyes. Then you come back to center and that reset your nervous system, your vagus nerve I love how you had so many and a lot of them.
Speaker 2:They you don't even have to go anywhere, like the walk you would, but like you could do right from where you're done, like if you're in an office meeting yeah, or you can just go to the bathroom bathroom in your office and sit there and I mean, and do whatever you know and maybe you're not using you actually use the toilet. Maybe you're sitting there doing your breathing, and then to think about it too is we want to name our emotions too. We want to make sure that I'm feeling stressed and we want to name those emotions and we don't want to be like I'm ignoring these emotions. So, as they come up, if you are in a safe, private place, let those emotions start to spill out and process through yourself, because if not, they get stored inside of you. So if you're angry, feel anger for just a moment. Don't feel anger and go do something to someone or harm someone or act out in it, but feel the anger because it's not a bad thing, it's a very healthy thing. We want you to feel the anger, breathe it. Breathe through the anger if you need to.
Speaker 2:If you're sad, feel the sadness of it. It's good A process is not. You're not always going to feel sad and there's just an emotion because you're a human. We're humans having human experiences. We're going to have emotions come up. You're feeling joy, but please, by all means, experience that joy. Don't hold it. Don't hold this down and become just numb and emotionless, because it's eventually is going to come out one way or the other. A lot of times it has come out breathwork sessions, like I don't know why I'm crying, like it's okay. You are crying because it's stored inside of you yeah, now you say name the emotions.
Speaker 1:Do you think they should be out loud, naming the emotions it doesn't have?
Speaker 2:to be. It can be I'm feeling sad. Am I really feeling sad? Not like right now, not feeling sad. So, for instance, I say it's like I'm feeling sad. Is this really like right now I'm not feeling sad? So, for instance, I say it's like I'm feeling sad. Is this really sad? Or do I feel disappointment? You don't feel really disappointed. I'm going to go and feel like, really feel into that disappointment and see what it's trying to offer me right now.
Speaker 2:But we're not judging the emotions. We're taught to judge emotions. There's good emotions, there's bad emotions. There's no such thing. It's okay to feel disappointment. It's okay to feel sadness. It's okay to be angry. If it wasn't okay, we wouldn't get angry. It's just what you do with those emotions and how long you stay in that state of mind is a different story. But it's okay to be angry, say I'm disappointed, it makes me disappointment's what I'm feeling right now. Okay, I'm going to process and fill into this disappointment until I don't feel disappointed anymore. I don't really give myself these 5, 10, 15 minutes a day or whatever, to feel disappointed. I'm going to allow myself and give myself grace to that, because I understand it's just disappointment. It does not make me who I am. It doesn't make me who I'm going to become. It's just a simple disappointment, and we all feel disappointed, and we're allowed to feel disappointed. But we feel guilty when we feel disappointed, don't we?
Speaker 1:Sometimes, yeah, or even anger, people like they want to push that down because everybody considers that like a bad thing. I love how you mentioned as long as you're not acting on it or taking it out on someone, like it's not bad to feel it. You know, like you got to feel it in order to heal it. I heard that somewhere. Whether it's sadness or anger or these emotions that are less favored or even more so, the ones that people try to push down and it's like it doesn't mean you have to act on it and slash somebody's tires, you know, just because you're mad, you can be mad, you know.
Speaker 2:Like I don't think yeah, and allow other people to be mad, allow them to be mad. They're mad at you. They're mad at you. You know, if you don't feel like you did anything, allow them to be mad. Allow them to be angry by mad is a different, but allow them to be angry. They're just angry because their feelings are hurt. Their feelings are nothing but a feeling, and that was a that's like it was a huge.
Speaker 2:One of my biggest lessons, I feel like even this year, is like allowing other people to be angry Angry even if they're angry at me. Most of the time, people aren't angry at you. They're angry because of a situation, because you didn't meet their expectations that were inside of their mind of how something was going to play out. And when you understand that, it doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you because they're angry at you or the situation. So that was a huge thing for me, but a lot of it goes back to you know, the nervous system is like, if you don't process and feel the anger, or even allow other people to feel angry, or you feel disappointed that they're angry, or you feel a little fearful that they're angry, I'm going to feel fear because they're angry and maybe this is what's going to happen and you're kind of talking, you're almost coaching and talking to yourself.
Speaker 2:I think your nervous system is going to stay so out of whack all the time because your emotions are not processed. It's going. Are we angry? No, we're not. So we're numb right now, but I'm feeling this and it's like you're not going to have. It's a mind, a mess inside of your entire mindset and your entire body, and that's how a lot of like diseases happen, how a lot of things happen inside of our bodies. We have mental breakdowns because of that reason. So we're not processing our emotions.
Speaker 1:It is so true. I'm curious Do you have suggestions for anybody listening to us that knows they aren't processing their emotions and they're struggling with that?
Speaker 2:yeah, there's a lot of people I feel like walking around. They don't know what they're feeling right now. They don't like I don't know how I'm feeling right now. I can, I'm excited, I can name my feelings right now because I've worked on them. I'm excited. I'm a little stressed because I have a retreat coming up, you know. So that's in my back of my mind that I can name all the emotions that are that's going on. I can, I could totally name.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm in my zone talking about this. I feel calm and collected with it and it can be a little excited. You can have more than one emotion going on. But being able to sit and you have to sit with yourself you can try a little music on if you need to relaxing music. Don't put on any heavy metal, rap or anything. I mean talking some spa music that's going to relax your nervous system.
Speaker 2:Down and sit with yourself for five or 10 minutes and just say and be honest I mean be honest with yourself. I don't know how I feel, and you can start listing out there's like charts of emotions. Am I feeling this way? Not really, it's more this way. Yeah, this is what I'm feeling, and so processing and knowing that emotion and realizing and feeling.
Speaker 2:If you don't feel the emotion, you're not going to know what it is. So next time you're angry, no, say I'm angry, notice that anger. Or next time that you're sad or you're jealous, notice that, notice these emotions that we have and just start to notice. It's really the first step to it Is to. But if we say no, I'm not jealous, no, I'm not angry, no, I'm not this, and we numb ourselves out of it, we're never going to know how we feel. And the whole point of being human is to experience these emotions. Emotions are beautiful. They are such a beautiful journey they give us, they bring us abundance, they bring us all the things in our world, they bring us hope and clarity. And if we don't have that, what do we have? We're just a bunch of numbed out robots. What's the point?
Speaker 1:I love how you mentioned a lot of people don't know how they're feeling. I think that's true, but I loved your example of sitting with yourself and asking and like just asking yourself might take a few times, maybe, journaling with yourself and just seeing what comes up. Now I'd love to transition a tad. You mentioned you have a retreat coming up. I'd love to delve down that if you're comfortable talking about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I have two retreats coming up. They're actually sold out. I'm working on a third one in Ireland. I'm actually just reserved my flight for that. It's going to be in September and there's going to be five women that are going to be there, but it's going to be for high-level women who are doing energy healing and we're coming to a collective like together and it's almost a calm as the temple, not in a like a religious sense, but as and we're coming back to our temple of ourselves and through our energy and our soul and who we're connecting to who we truly are. And so it's women that are have really connected.
Speaker 2:And they did the hard work, they did the healing work. Now I'm not saying we're completely healed, because I don't think we're ever completely healed, because, again, we're in a human experience here. However, they did the work and they recognize, they know their emotions, they can aim their emotions very quickly and they're okay to process through those on a healthy level. And so we're just going to come together and we're going to collectively raise consciousness in each other, raise activations in each other. Because we're just going to come together and we're going to collectively raise consciousness in each other, raise activations in each other, because we're hitting a new era right now in our entire world. Like we are, we're on, we're everybody, everyone's feeling it, even if they don't believe it, they're feeling it. Right now, you're feeling the polarity is happening. You're feeling the change is happening. We're about to change into a whole new world and, by some, most amazing things are happening, and those that are ready and activated through this will. We're going to thrive through it, and so that's what this retreat's about.
Speaker 2:Then I'm going to host some more. I haven't don't have any dates yet, but they can check my website out as they come, available for the general public, for anyone who wants to get into learning more about healing. Always do breath work at my retreats and always meditation, and then we do some energy healing and then we're going to do I have a actually one coming up in Austin actually next week. I have a friend of mine is coming and doing sound healing. We're going to do breath work around that, and so it's super transformational. So it's they're healing retreats, but I don't like the word healing anymore. As of this past month, I'm like we're not healing. We're coming back into our soul's presence and who purpose and who we are. There's nothing wrong with us to be healed. There's something that we need to come back to our soul, our purpose of why we're here. So that's where my work is headed, and I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 1:That sounds so exciting. I love that.
Speaker 2:Boston and Ireland yeah and then we're going to Florida.
Speaker 1:in between, the one in Florida sold out in like a day and a half. Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Thank you so much for speaking with me. I really appreciate it. This was great, and I would love to speak with you on Mander's mindset and down your journey even more. I would love that. Yeah Well, thank you again and I do like to give it back to the guests. Anything you want to leave the listeners with.
Speaker 2:Again, I don't want to stress this thing. I think, like we're having right now, is we have all this, get healed, and I want everyone to realize that there are parts of us that we need to. We need to replace with something a little more powerful. But there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing to heal, and I think that was just like a big aha moment for me this past month was there's nothing we need to really start healing? I have all these healing modalities, but all they're doing is bringing you straight back to connecting you to your soul's purpose, to who you are, who you truly are, and sitting in the breathwork and meditation and doing the rituals and doing the things will bring you completely back to that. So do that work. Don't worry about having to heal yourself and that you're broken because there's nothing wrong with you. Things have happened to you. There's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect. I mean, you're perfect the way you are. Yeah, I just want to leave them with that.
Speaker 1:I will Thank you again. I really appreciate it. And thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Breathwork Magic. Thank you for tuning in to Breathwork Magic. I hope today's episode inspired you to connect more deeply with your breath and embrace the transformation it can bring. Remember, as long as you have your breath, you have options. You're not stuck. You can make a change, you can make a shift. Each inhale is a new beginning and every exhale is a chance to let go of what no longer serves you.
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