Why Breathwork……
Early this year I was fortunate enough to come across the power of Breathwork whilst attending a Retreat in Bali with my gym. When I heard that we were working with Ice Baths and Breathwork, to say I was a little resistant is probably an understatement. Both of these offerings seemed to be the big ‘new thing’ that everyone was doing and I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. After all, I hate being cold and I was already incorporating components of breath in my own offerings. What more did I need to know……………
Ok, so what I know is that the thing we resist is that which we need to lean into……
I had spent the last two years in what felt like the hell of supporting a loved one through addiction and was as though I was on the precipice of spiralling down the hole that I could see no way out of. My heart was breaking and it was way too confronting to go there. I was fantastic at supporting so many of my clients and community to weave through their own emotions and step back to become the observer, but was I truly doing this for myself? OF COURSE NOT…………………………..It was time to surrender all parts of myself and allow myself to meet the shadow within me.
It was on this journey of ice and breath that I met the most extraordinary man, Alex Tsuk, from Breathing Cold Bali. This divine human held space for me and guided me through his own modality of Breathwork that he had spent years perfecting. He had been through his own healing journey and was now using this as his superpower to guide those that were ready and willing to trust him. He had a way of making you feel so safe, so seen and so held in a way I had never experienced.
All I can say is …………….Holy Fuck!! We did two journeys over two days and I was not prepared in any way for where I would go. On the second of the two journeys I stepped completely into my own heart and became the observer in a way I never knew possible. I saw my own beautiful daughter standing before me without the mask of her addiction. I saw her, in what can only be described as the most beautiful soul whose pain had completely disempowered her. Her pain so intense that she was frozen, with no way out.. It was in this moment that I found the compassion I had been seeking. All of the anger, the judgment and the hurt fell away in an instant and I finally saw her standing before me. I saw her for the first time in what seemed like an eternity. I saw her with the love that a mother feels when she first sees her child. My life had changed forever.
It was because of this opportunity, this journey, that I knew I had to work with this sacred medicine that is Breathwork. It was a soul remembering that I knew well. When I returned to Melbourne, I was connected with an amazing man called Dan P from Spirit Breathwork and they had just launched their online Facilitator Training. I didn’t need to think, I just signed up.
And the rest, as they say, is history…………………………
