Ecstatic Breathwork
Being a parent demands a lot from you and doesn’t leave much room for giving yourself the gift of a peak experience. Of course, it’s exactly those kinds of experiences that also give you the juice to be your best with and for your family.
Breathwork offers accessible and effective ways for managing your mental and emotional health that (crucially) can be employed anywhere from a few seconds up to an hour and thus easily fit into your busy life.
Ecstatic breathwork is a specific breathing protocol that alters your blood pH and activates specific neural pathways to create peak states that can provide somatic releases or unique insights and inspiration. Basically, it’s a mental, emotional, and physical reset that endows you with refreshed and revitalized energy to take back to parenting, working, and living.
It is also safe and controlled, since you manage your own experience throughout by controlling the pace and depth of your breath.
In this workshop, we will learn about the alchemy of breath, experience an ecstatic breathwork protocol together, and have time afterward to discuss and integrate the experience.
*Contraindications to participating in a breathwork session include epilepsy, pregnancy, detached retina, glaucoma, high blood pressure that is not controlled with medication, cardiovascular disease including but not limited to prior heart attack, use of prescription blood thinners such as Coumadin, history of aneurysms in immediate family, strokes, TIAs, seizures or other brain/neurological condition or disease, prior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, osteoporosis whereby intense movement could cause physical issues.
NOTE: ASTHMA IS NOT A CONTRAINDICATION BUT WE ASK THAT YOU BRING YOUR INHALER TO THE SESSION IF YOU HAVE ASTHMA
Details
When: May - exact date TBD
Where: Glenn Echo, MD
Registration: Please email us to set up a brief conversation to assess whether this is an appropriate modality for you.
Cost: $95
About Your Facilitators
Drew Sample
Drew is the founder of The Fatherhood Circle and the primary facilitator for its group experiences. He uses tools and practices from ancient wisdom traditions and the leading edge of academic research on flow states to guide others into and through peak states of performance and consciousness, helping parents build a life of flow so that they can give their best to their families and the world.
Rua
Rua is a well-being coach, and the co-founder of the well-being studio Breathe Rise + Thrive. He uses breathwork as a tool for healing and cultivating deeper communal connections with each other as a way of supporting his clients and students live deeply satisfying, creatively productive, and balanced lives.