The 10  most important guiding principles
for a successful breathing session

1. Trust your inner guiding intelligence.
2. Deeply surrender to the process and let go of expectations about what you think should happen.
3. Give yourself permission to feel and express whatever emotions are showing up.
4. Have the courage to feel and experience whatever is coming up during the session.
5. Allow the unfolding of the process.
6. Allow the full range of emotions that are showing up, be it anger, sadness, joy or happiness.
7. Know that whatever emotions are coming up are ready to be released.
8. Know that your inner guiding intelligence will bring up only that what you are capable of handling on that day.
9. In an expanded state of consciousness everything is magnified and because of that the depth of release is much bigger than in an ordinary every-day state of mind. Welcome and allow it to happen.
10. Write about your experience afterward in order to bring your insights into your daily life for integration.

​In breathwork, you are able to access an expanded state or awareness, get your monkey mind out of the way and connect with your inner guiding intelligence, our IGI. This is the same amazing intelligence that allows our bodies to take care of all of our internal body processes every second of every day to keep us alive. We just do not normally have conscious connection to it or it is just a very weak internal voice that is rarely loud enough to make itself heard. By doing breathwork on a regular basis, along with profound physical and emotional releases during the sessions, you will strengthen the neural pathway to this internal intelligence and be able to access it more consistently on a moment to moment basis in your life by just taking a few deep breaths.

​Positive long-term changes are: getting insights to issues in your life, improving your relationships with your friends and family, feeling less isolated and more connected to the world, and being more present.
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Here are a few more specific advices that are worth contemplating before you embark on your first breathwork journey:
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In everyday life, we tend to project the cause of our internal states and emotions on something that has happened in the outside world.  But the truth is that it is what it triggers from our past and the story we create around what happened that creates the emotion! For instance, if a piece of music comes on that you dislike, or there is an unexpected interruption at your house and you get angry, instead of projecting the cause of the anger on what happened in the outside world, just allowing it to fully express itself without any judgment or suppression and see what happens. Any emotion is always a signal from the body that something wants to get released and is always a doorway to drop deeper into the process.

Everyone has an “inner drive towards integration and wholeness”. In the same way your body can heal a cut, your psyche can let go of old believes, thinking patterns and reframe your past.  Energetic blocks can be released, emotional issues can be resolved, personal power and creativity can be restored and enhanced. You just have to breathe deeply to the right set of music to let the mind get out of the way and let this inner healing power bring up what is ready to be released. NeuroDynamic Breathwork is a modality of trust and surrender . . . .to yourself!

We have suppressed so much emotional energy into our body and our psyche in our lives and this is our chance to let it out. If something comes up, let it be as big as it wants to be, do not try and suppress it. Also, let go of judging whether an experience is “good” or “bad”. That is just your ego mind talking . Difficult experiences many times are the ones that lead to the most personal growth. There is no such thing as a bad experience. Feeling what we might define as negative emotions are no better or worse than feeling what we define as positive emotions. Emotions are signals to us from our inner intelligence that something needs to be recognized.​

Let go of any agendas and expectations of what your breathwork journey will look like so that your inner intelligence can guide the journey to give you the experience that you need in that moment. The basic purpose of the breathwork journey is to build and strengthen this neural pathway that relaxes our thinking mind and directs the spotlight of our attention inward, toward that stream of remote associations emanating from the right hemisphere of our brain. In contrast, when we are diligently focused, our attention tends to be directed outward, toward the details of the problems we’re trying to solve. While this pattern of attention is necessary when solving problems analytically, it actually prevents us from detecting the connections that lead to insights and intuition. Doing breathwork on a regular basis, you will have more access to this inner intelligence that can produce the answers to the questions that our thinking minds cannot resolve through analysis.

How to breath during a NeuroDynamic Breathwork®  session?
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• The general instruction is to breathe “a little deeper and a little faster” than normally. But at the beginning, to help you drop quickly into the process, I recommend the following: start with breathing in and out through your mouth. It is easier to move air quickly this way and also, whenever we are in an emotional state like laughing or crying, we always breathe through the mouth so that gives our bodies permission to release blocked emotions. You want to do diaphragm breathing, meaning when you breathe in your belly moves out a bit and when you breathe out, it moves back in. Normally in life we breathe in a very shallow manner where only our chest moves so this will be a very different breathing technique than your normal everyday breath. ​​​
• Also, you want to do what we call circular breathing where there is no pause between the inhale and exhale. If you practice taking full deep breaths in this way for even a minute or two, you will feel your consciousness start to change. After a certain period of time (usually around 15 minutes or so), breathers generally find that their body takes over and finds its own rhythm. Your body spontaneously might want to breathe very deeply but much slower than normal, or, your throat might get dry and you might get an inclination to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth..that is all fine. Stay focussed on your inner journey and let the breath be whatever it wants to be.​​
• If your breathing slows down  too much, you will fall out of the process and your ego mind will come back in with  its chit chat thoughts like “Am I doing this breathing technique right?” “How much longer is the music going to last?” "What's for dinner tonight?" etc etc. That is your signal to refocus again on the breath and breath a little deeper and a little faster to re-kindle the internal journey.

Practical suggestions before you begin
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• It is advised not to have a big meal just before breathing because it is more difficult to drop into an expanded state of awareness if your stomach is overloaded and all of your internal energy is focused on digestion. You will need a blindfold or you can just close your eyes if you prefer but using a blindfold is strongly recommended as that will generally support you in dropping more deeply into the process. Also, I recommend having Kleenex tissues, a bottle of water, a chapstick, and a blanket close by and a small plastic bag in case you have to spit.  Make sure to have enough space around you so that if you move around you do not bang into anything or anybody.
• After the session, there is time for all participants to share their experiences if they choose to and I will be available to answer whatever questions you might have about your experiences or the process.  This final part of the session helps with the integration process after your breathwork experience and is quite important. Even if you may not want to share anything, hearing what other participants have experienced will give you a better sense about what kind of experiences might come up for you next time. ​
• As a confidentiality rule everybody is asked to never share other people's experiences outside of class in a way where these people can be identified. It is not allowed to take any photos or audio recordings during class. There should be no political statements made. You may speak only about your personal experiences. Don't assume that others have the same experiences as you do and refrain from generalizing or handing out advice.