Breathwork
Invite balance into your body.
Inhale the present, exhale the past.
It starts with a feeling. A yearning for something more. To let go of the suffering, and to feel life anew. Which takes you to the breath. And in the breath, you realise that you had what you needed within you all along. The strength to exist. In this moment. Exactly as you are.
“The Breath of Life (Spiritual Breathing) is revealing itself to be the driving force at the heart and the cutting edge of this coming leap in human development."
- Dan Brule
What I Offer
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Conscious-Connected Breathing
This is a yin-type breathing technique, passive in its approach. It works by gently moving us into the physical body, allowing for a gentle release of the emotions. This type of breathwork is ideal for issues of the heart which may feel challenging to access - wounds like grief, loss, and feminine wounds related to the womb (e.g. infertility).
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Rebirthing Breathwork - Active
This is a yang-type breathing technique, active and intense. Some of us may hold trauma from our birthing experience (for instance, if we had a difficult birth) right up to the present moment. Re-birthing allows us to heal back to our very first trauma - that of birth. It can also assist with healing from inter-generational trauma.
What is Breathwork?
Breathwork, or rebirthing, is a transformative healing modality that works to activate the subconscious mind and bring insights not easily accessed through conventional therapy. It helps to clear away old patterning, conditioning, fight or flight responses, as well as negative emotions and thoughts to assist people to lead more vibrant lives and access greater consciousness.
Generally, few of us breathe fully, instead, we hold back the breath and have been done for most of our lives. When we start to incorporate breathing techniques that help us to breathe fully and consciously we open energy channels in the body and allow what we’ve been holding onto to surface and find release. It serves to invite greater forgiveness and self-love. This inner change brings about spiritual healing and positive shifts in our external lives.
Enlisting a qualified and experienced Breathwork practitioner ensures you feel in a safe space to let go over blame or judgment, heal past wounds and trauma, move toward acceptance as well as gratitude and find a sense of completion, which strengthens your courage to meet the future and live your best life.
Rebirthing therapy is a means of trusting the wisdom of the body to bypass the conscious mind and enables unconscious thinking and patterns to be breathed out of the energy system through the physical and emotional body. Frequently my clients report that breathing therapy has resulted in breakthroughs and abiding shifts that psychological counselling hasn’t been able to deliver.
“The body is the starting place for what we know.” Dorianne Laux
The Origins of Breathwork
Using the breath as a vehicle to higher consciousness has been utilised for millennia. The East has an array of yogic techniques such as Pranayama which highlights the importance of conscious breathing. The Buddha taught that the mindfulness of one's in and out-breath is a means of moving beyond the separation illusion.
As a modality of spiritual healing, Breathwork emerged out of the spirituality movement of the 1960′s in what was first known as Rebirthing, launched by Leonard Orr. It has evolved over the decades with some practitioners advocating a rigorous technique while others a more gentle one. I teach the latter to my one on one clients and in the group breathwork classes I run in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
The Wim Hof Method is one of the more recent types of breathing techniques employed to build physical endurance and improve immune function. Wif Hof, the founder, has used it to achieve feats considered impossible for humans.
Other variations include Holotropic Breathwork, developed by Stanislav Grof. It combines breathing with other elements to bring about non-ordinary states of consciousness. If meditation, or yoga breathing, works to relax the mind and body, active breathwork (Holotropic) works to energise them by taking in more oxygen than we usually let in. By reducing the gaps between breaths we animate the body with extra life-force energy. This variation emphasises the out-breath.
You can read more at the bottom of this page about how holotropic breathwork came about and how Grof formulated his ideas about the four stages of birth.
Rebirthing therapy, by contrast, focuses more on the deep breathing exercises of the in-breath, seeing the out-breath as an act of surrender and letting go, allow traumas to be released. Conscious breathing is not done to get a physical high or to keep us in perfect condition, although these things may come as a side benefit. It is used to bring about spiritual healing and temper our overreliance on the intellect and the rational mind.
“The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.”
- Leonard D. Orr
Breathwork Benefits
Relieves tension and stress
Improves feelings of aliveness, inner peace and wellbeing
Releases stagnant energy and toxins from the body
Creates a deeper sense of inter-connectedness with the world
Brings emotions and memories to the surface in order to release them in a gentle, safe way
Unlocks self-expression and creativity to help you reach the ‘flow state’. Breathworks.
Addresses birth trauma, inter-generational trauma and PTSD
Promotes healing from childhood wounds (e.g. abandonment or rejection) in order to improve your relationships in the present
Allows you to access higher states of consciousness.
Gives guidance and clarity regarding your life’s purpose
What A Session Involves
The rebirthing sessions are held in my yurt, which is a quiet, specifically designed spiritual healing space that overlooks a bushland area in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains.
You will be guided in a circular connected breathing practice and receive one on one support to unravel deeper layers of held stress, belief systems, suppressed emotions and open to a greater sense of wellbeing.
The breathwork process assists you to dissolve past tensions that you have stored on a cellular level, making it possible to experience more energy and aliveness. Research has shown that the majority of our thoughts and beliefs are both repetitive and unconscious. We impact and co-create our realities with what we focus on and the energy imprints held in the mind and body. Encouragingly, we now recognise that the brain re-wires itself, it just needs the physical body and the subconscious to help it optimally rewire.
Rebirthing can bring about major shifts and it can stir up issues that have been long buried. After the session, you will have the opportunity to discuss your experience, in order to integrate it into your daily life and understand the process on a deeper level. As an experienced counsellor, I combine this skill with an intuitive approach to offer relevant suggestions and deliver a holistic experience where you gain a deep level of insight, release emotional baggage and feel the patterns shifting at a cellular level.
Breathwork Sydney
Price: $180 for a 2 hour breathwork session
“My first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breathwork to all my patients.”
– Dr. Andrew Weil
Breathwork Classes
In addition to individual sessions, I run sessions for couples as well as group classes.
A group session begins with an introduction to breathwork and some training on how to do the breathing techniques. We then begin the breathing accompanied by some relaxation music which assists to get out of the mind and into the body’s rhythm.
During the breathwork journey, I offer guided encouragement and provide support to those who need it. The session concludes with some quiet to allow integration and release. Lastly, people are given the opportunity for some group sharing and reflection.
Price: $90 for a 2 hour group breathwork session
"There is one way of breathing that is constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that lets you open infinitely.”
- Rumi.
Breathwork Online
Experience the transformative power of conscious breath and connection through online breathwork. My online breathwork classes are hosted through zoom.
In our online class you’ll use the breath to experience the healing of unresolved traumas, allow grief to be expressed and gain a greater sense of calm and presence.
You can find information about upcoming dates for my breathwork classes through my Facebook events page or on the events page of this website.
Breathwork Retreat
A two day intensive retreat to restore wellness & deliver spiritual healing
Learn conscious breathing
Release trauma and blockages stored in your body
Find clarity on your life mission and purpose
Bring integration between body, mind and spirit
*Breathworks retreats that are midweek save $50 off weekend programs
Testimonials
Ginny has changed my life. I felt so much clarity from each of the breathwork exercises. Such incredible techniques and Ginny’s guidance and hospitality were wonderful.
— Katarina
After almost 30 years of trying different therapies I have at last found Ginny's form of breathwork to be an absolute breakthrough as it bypasses the brain and goes straight to the body which holds all the trauma.
- Mark Doyle
I am so happy that I attended your breathwork circle ; it was a powerful experience and an initiation to explore a different energy field for me; thank you very much for your supportive and loving energy.
- Daryoush Z
Ginny’s breathwork sessions are so supportive, I always feel seen and held, and am able to gently release blockages, and receive guidance for what is next. These days, I don’t let myself go a few weeks without this beautiful practise of self care.
- Kat Graham
I attended my first Breathwork Circle with Ginny recently and I can’t wait to do it again! Ginny put everyone in the room at ease and answered all our beginners questions beautifully. Her support and facilitation of the process was really nurturing, providing us with a safe space to let the breath work reveal itself. Looking forward to doing it again.
- Nicole McClure
Absolutely love love love hosting and attending Ginnys breath work circles. She holds the space beautifully so everyone gets the opportunity to go on the journey they need. Highly recommend her healing.
- Annika Saigi
Thank you for holding space for me during our breathwork session. I was in bliss. You are amazing and I loved it. Thank you, thank you, thank you xxx
- Tia Paenui
I have found Ginny's breath work classes to be very fulfilling. Ginny is helpful and prepares a wonderful atmosphere. I look forward to continuing lessons from this grounded lady.
- Roberta Hogan
Ginny is amazing facilitator. Attending her Breathwork workshop is a fantastic tool to help you with anything that you are personally going thru. Ginny makes you feel welcomed and helps you in your sacred place.
- Nev Khoury
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