Core Breath is an experiential workshop that weaves the integration of mindful breath awareness and intention within the therapeutic processes of Core Energetics. Participants will be guided through a compassionate process of tapping into the subtle body through breath, energetic consciousness and intentional movement. Conscious awareness of our being can heighten through mindful cognizance of the way our breath flows, ebbs, is blocked or held. This heightened perception is a nexus of consciousness and matter via a direct experience of our embodied presence and a felt sense of our nervous system. By mindfully tuning into breathing while enduring a process of body-psychotherapy, this conscious awareness creates an embodiment that can facilitate a more rapid penetration of our outer skin/mask, while percolating the soils of our core self. The workshop will highlight specific considerations for integral alignment and breathing awareness in the process of supporting, enlivening and recuperating the mind-body-spirit connection.
Breath is life in energetic form. It flows through the body like a river through blood vessels, nerve tracts, and lymph capillaries. It is impacted by the effects of emotions and can affect a person’s physiological state in an involuntary and voluntary manner. It can carry, weave around and through the emotional charges embedded within us. Whether the issues are in our tissues, cradled in the pelvis, stuck in the diaphragm, or locked in the jaw, all connective tissue, organs, blood vessels and cells are interconnected within our body’s fluid matrix. In the center of our being, the spinal cord is the epicenter of the central nervous system, which works in tandem with the peripheral nervous system (which encompasses the somatic and autonomic nervous systems). These systems are important information highways and feedback loops, psychological, neurologically, physiologically and somatically.
Breathing illuminates our energy, brings new life to cells, and carries the vitality of our life force. Breath can weave through our nervous system in ways that elucidate the way we structure our character, armor our being, and either contract or expand. Linking core energetic exercises with their direct link into the nervous system, facilitates a more rapid transition into multiple levels of human experience and memory. I have found utilizing an intentional use of breath through the exercises further assists in securing a resonance that highlights one's natural rhythms of release, holding, and energetic streaming. The Nervous system embodies consciousness in its pathways from the crown of the head down to the soles of our feet and out. It is an energy distribution center that breath weaves through as revealing currents. Utilizing core energetic exercises in direct correlation with the nervous system through the intentional use of breath, joins consciousness and energy in a manner that can lead to direct insight one's character structure, mask, and vital nature; as well as assist in the completion of the vaso-matoric cycle in the process of healing.
Like a bird in a cage, the heart speaks of life beyond its confines. A second pulse pumps cerebral spinal fluids, a deep, secret stream of life, through the spine and brain. And more fully expressive as a rhythm is breathing, which feeds the cells with new life. John P. Conger
