About Rebirthing-Breathwork

– What is Rebirthing-Breathwork?
– How long does a session last?
– What takes place during a session?
– Is there a medical application?

Rebirthing Breathwork - What is it?

Rebirthing Breathwork is a conscious, connected body/breath technique which activates an inner non-mundane experience. This results in a number of internal experiences. One is where thoughts, pains, memories or feelings or energies that have been held down with the breath, are able to surface to be released, cleared or resolved. The process is freeing of limitations from previous decisions, beliefs or conditioning.

Breath is the link between the conscious mind and the sub/unconscious mind. Rebirthing Breathwork is known for effective release of tension, physical, emotional or psychological. A session can include the psycho-emotional aspects of your physical birth, in-utero experience and early infancy and their psycho-spiritual implications.

The opportunity is to decondition and reprogramme self. In the non-mundane experience of a Rebirthing Breathwork session, a new perspective to life issues emerges. The continued process brings a point of choice or free-to-be-in-action instead of reaction to events and people.

Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery (RBM) is the name given by Alakh to specific use of intention + body awareness + conscious breath over time.

Session Length

The total time frame of a RBM session is approx two and a half hours. In a breath cycle of approximately 90 minutes duration, the full and connected breathing accelerates detoxification in the body. This cleanse extends from the physical into an emotional, mental and/or spiritual experience.

Time after the 90 minutes minimum breath cycle, is given to debrief the breath session and to allow you to relate the content to your intention. Subtle shifts are honoured and integrated as well as mild or intense releases all of which lead to ultimate resolution in time.he other main emphasis (time-wise) is on integration of the session. The use of the conscious and effortless, relaxed breath, allows the intensity of the breath session to be in accord with whatever can be integrated by the breather. This is now a process that has proved its worth over time!

Breathwork Mastery Technique

The emphasis for each RBM breath session is on YOU taking a step that is fully integrated by the end of the session. RBM is about having your life go in the direction you intend.

The instructions in RBM breath sessions are for full, conscious, connected, easy breathing. INTENTION is specifically what you want to make a difference to in your life. For example, you may ask – "What do I want to be happening that is not yet happening?"

What happens in a breath session?
The experiences of a breath session are likely to be physical, emotional, mental and or spiritual. The experience happens on whatever levels you need in the session, depending on the intention of the session. The session mostly relates to what is happening in your life now, or what is in the way of the intention.

Nine defining points of Rebirthing/Breathwork Mastery (RBM) as a strand of Breathwork

1. emphasis on body sensation awareness as well as conscious breath all through the breath session - it is a body/breath process.
2. emphasis on self mastery - individuals are self generating their process and are self regulating organisms - RBM is a creative tool.
3. awareness on process - when an individual is safe enough, supported enough, and ready enough, he or she will clear unresolved past events - allow time and awareness in the process.
4. application of well chosen intention setting within the process - relate all the content of the breath session to the intention in a debrief.
5. use of breath that allows a physical, mental, feeling or spiritual experience - start with full, conscious, connected, subtle breath, in and out the nose until or unless the nose closes
6. allow the breath session to unfold with minimum intervention – use the debrief afterwards to integrate all the wisdom, inspiration or clearing that emerges during the breath cycle
7. be present to, name and identify exactly what is happening on each level of the breath session, without adding any interpretation - stay with whatever emerges to create the maximum climate for clearing on all levels.
8. awareness of safety - that a breather can only regress to something that he or she as already lived through – any past event which is surfacing for clearing is because of intention - the process is safe and any intense symptoms are immediately affected by a change in intention.
9. agenda free focus for facilitation with emphasis on expanding self awareness - both for facilitator and participant.

Do I remember my birth?
The technique is often a regression. This can be to any point in your past, including in-utero recall and past life symbology. The main value of regressing is to discover the belief that was made in the past, and sometimes at birth since it was a significant event, that is affecting or limiting you in your life now. Another is to recover information from past events or see them from the adult perspective. Or there is value in being present to what you could not be present to in the past, sometimes moments or stages of birth or childhood. All this leads to resolution of that issues produced by those events, partial or total, in the RBM breath session.

Is birth that important?
Birth itself is a physio-emotional event with psychological implications, and a spiritual dimension. It is a point in time when patterns and beliefs about life and people also take birth. That gives rise to the name Rebirthing. You do not always regress to your birth in a session. That is most likely when you are in transition in your life, or a relationship, or some similar major change is happening.

Why go back to my past?
People usually come to Rebirthing Breathwork out of wanting to be more self-aware and self realised. The re-experiencing of birth or any event is only to release or resolve anything “left over” or incomplete from this or any other past event. Usually this comes through re-experiencing the event or events and identifying the decision that gave rise to the belief that has been conditioned or imprinted and lived out from that time. This creates the climate for release or resolution, which is mostly immediate.

What does the breath do?
Through breath the conscious mind connects with the subconscious mind and material surfaces. Once something is in the conscious mind, it no longer has the same power over you that it has when it is subconsciously driving you. In RBM breath sessions you get the messages and images from the subconscious mind and it makes a difference to your life.

Medical application

In a medical model, RBM is most powerful for pain reduction. In RBM breath sessions, through the breath and its affect at cellular memory activation, individuals are able to release body pain, often chronic, by getting to the emotions, or memories plus emotions, held at that point, Chronic pain is emotional, mental or spiritual trauma locked in the body. This is usually held in place also by a belief, formed at the original event which imprinted the trauma. A resolution is created in the same way the pain was created.

For more information about the history, study and practice of Rebirthing-Breathwork Mastery please visit our educational website: Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery - Nationally Accredited Courses : Cert.IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma.