 So, this is just a little mini workshop preview, but I hope you walk away with some real hand and foot breathing knowledge that you can incorporate into your day-to-day life today. So my name is Junya and I love to breathe because it makes me feel fantastic and it lets me be very, very present and it also is one of the most healing things that I can do in my life, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. And I believe that 100 years from now this will be preventative medicine of the future. I became enamored with the katharik breath which is basically connecting your inhale and exhale and adding consciousness. So breathing consciously and when I was a medical anthropologist at Howard Medical School working with Dr. John Mack who is the founder of the psychiatric department, and I was able to sit on in his sessions that he did with people that had PTSD, there's some chairs right here, and also people that have had the incomplete experience of being abducted on spaceships. So as a medical anthropologist I was very happy to see that people that have these expansion experiences sometimes can get traumatized and he used katharik breathwork. He didn't use talk therapy, he didn't use hypnotherapy, he used katharik breathwork to help people come more into a center and kind of be in their life again and release their PTSD and I was amazed at that and that really made me go native, meaning that I didn't get abducted on a space ship or I don't recall it but I said you know this is what I really want to learn and I left academia and I started to teach katharik breathwork and now I have my own private practice in Worcester and Boston and it's life changing. So what happens is if you take a conscious breath rather than an unconscious breath is that the prana energy traveling on the breath will immediately come into your body with consciousness and highlight anything in your body that's not moving so much. So this is a higher frequency breath because you're breathing it consciously. So at night time you're also breathing connecting your inhale and exhale but what is missing? Consciousness. So adding consciousness to the breath is an absolute game changer. When you add consciousness to the breath within five minutes of breathing consciously your heart rate variability goes up meaning that the way your heart responds to external and internal circumstances is actually increased which is wonderful. So anybody shooting here for longevity this is the name of the game. So this is my breathwork doing this three times a day for five minutes with a count of five on the inhale five on the exhale we'll be practicing that in a little bit. So these are two workshops that I'm teaching coming up at Falls River Yoga Studio this Friday from six to eight and then on August second at Studio Zenith from three to five that's when you can have a full breathing session a full breathing cycle which is about 50 to 60 minutes long but today you'll have about three five minutes segments where you learn how to breathe and I just need to tune you in a little bit to that what you might experience. The first thing that you experience is feeling a little bit like a French water bottle au gaseuse which means you've got to feel all these bubbles in your system and this is really physiologically speaking and we call that in the katharic breath world tingling so any time you listen to a beautiful Beethoven sonata or you see a beautiful painting or you have really great sex or you will have a million dollars you will have this kind of tingling in your body because you're opening up in your breathing changes and you're connecting your breath and you're becoming conscious of your breath and you're becoming really alive and excited meaning you're going above the breathing threshold the breathing threshold is usually where we keep ourselves is this invisible divisive line that basically lets you breathe hardly next to nothing so you just barely survive so you go through life like this and then somebody will say why are you breathing so much and then you stop breathing even more which is not good and then there you go so that's what we usually do we don't we don't bring consciousness through our breath the only other beings on the planet that breathe consciously except for multidimensional beings like on the planet Sirius is the Sirian citations that breathe consciously all the time sort of like our citations in the ocean that are also conscious breathers dolphins and whales this is why people go swimming with them because literally your whole energy anatomy changes when you start swimming with dolphins because they're conscious breathers their brain never turns off and they're always somewhat breathing consciously so what happens first is again this front energy comes to the place in your body highlighting anything in your body that's kind of tight and not moving so much so anything that is energetically or physiologically or emotionally holding back gets high by this conscious breath and you will feel that when we practice this in a couple of minutes that suddenly like ooh I didn't know my neck was a little tight so suddenly you feel tingling in your neck or you have some digestive stuff immediately you might feel tingling in your digestive tract or in your kidneys or in your head or wherever it is that you experience tension and stress usually so this highlighting of the light force energy on the conscious breath means that it wants to dance with you and it wants to release whatever is holding so let it happen let this tingling happen throughout your body and you will experience also within five minutes your heart going into heart coherence so greater heart rate variability doesn't mean that your heart is nice and static people always say no my heart is peaceful and there's like it should be like like like this well like this is dead so you want things like this you want things like the tennis player going whoosh whoosh whoosh and every time you know with every inhale with every inhale the heart brings in the the sympathetic nervous system gets activated with every exhale the parasympathetic nervous system gets activated so it's wonderful in some way you stimulate your sympathetic nervous system in the other way you're stimulating your parasympathetic nervous system so actually the more the heart can respond to all type stimuli and inside stimuli the healthier you are the less stressed you are the more you are in a meditative centered state so that's great greater heart rate variability and you can reach that five minutes three times a day you have to do this exercise that we're doing today preferably in the morning before you wake up and you have your first cup of coffee so not before you wake up and you wake up and then don't do your to-do list and do this exercise it's nice to sit up straight with your spine you know erect because that way you are able to really inflate your lungs and your torso then before lunch before you have your lunch and then at night time before you sleep and if you feel like you're more anxious throughout the day do it more often right everybody we're going to do the first round and we're going to do it about five minutes and what we're going to do is you don't have to count much but basically you take a deep inhale into your belly and then bring it up to your upper chest the upper chest is like our lungs right and our lungs we use a third of our lungs it's just like our brain we use a third of our brain capacity we have these huge lungs with these alveoli like an upside down tree inside your being and if you really were to fake your lungs you would be it would be a blissful experience 24-7 so now what you're going to feel like because you are more bottom-driller breathing you're not used to really bring up the breath into the valley into the upper chest you might feel possibly a little dizzy but that's okay dizzy just means that there's more oxygen coming into your system and you're breathing out more carbon dioxide which is what you want the second medical physiological benefit is why are you breathing on carbon dioxide guess what it affects your blood acidity within five minutes of breathing like that you will turn from an acidic environment in terms of your blood acidity and all of your acidity in your being into an alkaline basic state which is anybody with acid reflux it's a no-brainer so you breathe like this more oxygen less carbon dioxide more alkalinity yeah and you can be relaxed have your legs uncrossed and what we're going to do is just take a deep inhale and relax on the exhale and we do this for about five minutes any questions before we start flying yes yeah it's good to have you know if you if you're cutting things off like that it's you know you're basically cutting off circulation so having your feet flat on the floor is wonderful you know spine erect is wonderful and then just take a deep inhale relaxing on the exhale and keep on doing it and if you get a little dizzy that's not a problem that's probably in relationship to your birth scenario so this work was in the 1950s called reburthing by Leonard Orr which was the first cathartic breathwork modality here on the planet although yogis have been doing it for centuries by bringing it to the west he brought it to the west and from that many different cathartic breathwork modalities came to the United States to Europe one of them is mine art of natural breathing holotrophic breathwork transformational breath vibration method you name it they're all very very similar if you go out there to find a practitioner all I ask you is that people have worked with this for at least five years because it's powerful work they'll have to know what the breath is doing when they work with you individually so nowadays it becomes like an exercise fat this is not an exercise but this is very powerful medicine that heals on deep emotional levels as well as physiological levels so it's it's we're just touching it and scratching the surface with our little exercises now but when you come for the breathwork in the workshops you will see the power of this application that you will go through a full breathing cycle yes I have a quick question is there anything we can do this wrong no no no and do we inhale through nose what we're going to do is it's not wrong to use the nose but it will just activate your upper energy vortexes what we want to do is go through the mouth because you get more air and through your mouth and so deep inhale through the mouth and then relaxing on the exhale so you basically dumping your exhale I'll show you and just to let you know you can't do it wrong this is the foundational breath if you are coming to me for a full breathing cycle and session your breath will go to 50 different breathing patterns so depending on what goes on inside you're in a landscape and emotions your breath will change depending on what goes on with your sensations in your body your breath will change depending on what goes on in the outside environment your breath will change it's kind of like your heart that's why you get greater heart rate variability when you're breathing like that yeah so it's not advisable to do this in a car or you're always walking around shopping at you know shawls or wherever you're shopping at because pretty soon you'll be feeling like you're walking on LSD you know it's a very powerful conscious kind of drug that you're dealing with when you're breathing like that and but for five minutes it's wonderful three times a day I can let you lose like this so do not try this on your own for one hour because it's like trying to fly a plane without a license you need to know yourself if you come to me for private session I have ten foundational private sessions on the breath therapist and it looks at your birth scenario it looks at your whole biography each each session is a different session by the end of those ten session I can let you lose and you can breathe on your own for the rest of your life because then you know but I have to watch you for about five times to see how you can optimize your breath how you're holding your breath what is your inhale and exhale doing because the way you breathe right now is the way you live your life when you change the way you breathe you change everything about your life absolutely everything your relationships your work everything yeah I forceps birth so I used to go through life very very unconsciously when I came to cathartic breath work with and I think five breathing session I breathed out all the chemical anesthesia that was left in my body from my mother taking huge amounts of drugs and her birth which is actually still lodged in our cellular memories that's why it's so important to talk to I was talking to central Vermont hospital a couple weeks ago with a big group of women that were in the birthing field and working with conscious birth so your birth scenario is still in you unconsciously and you can release that by working with this cathartic breath work which is absolutely wonderful and it will change your life yeah so now we're going to fly a little bit so what we're going to do is for first you're going to watch me please come in as quickly as you can because we're getting already into the experiential stuff so you there's a share right here all right perfect so first you're gonna watch me and remember this is only a foundational breath so you can't do it wrong because you're always breathing with relationship to what is going on in the outside environment and inside but for now you're using this foundational breath and I'm going to show you how to breathe this foundational breath when I go like this I want everybody to sort of copy me yeah so for this I can actually stand up so you can see me better and you can all remain sitting nobody has their legs crossed great put your hands maybe on your on your on your thighs and here we go so I'm going to start breathing into my belly into my upper chest deep inhale relax on the exhale and then sit down once I get going because I will start to feel a little bit more and livened so sitting helps here we go everybody all your lungs to be inflated yes you don't have to synchronize just go for it little bit more gentle man right here on the other chest go for it you are the one that can do it right and dump your exhale don't hold your exhale don't control it again as soon as your inhale is done you exhale and you pick up the inhale again that's right beautiful little more deep on the upper chest deeper deep on going in fairly soon beautiful little deeper on the inhale excellent open your arms little deeper little deeper go back into the breathing river little deeper take some effort that's right and you try to really yarn and he showed a little bit more effort on your inhale you really want to take a full inhale that's good good keep on going yes that's good even more on your inhale beautiful keep on going in painting all those long wings like an angel don't focus on your yarn you're oxygen so you want to have even more in a beautiful keep on going yes keep on going you can't say don't worry you're sitting in a chair yes four-head wrinkles right here yes little bit more little bit more in here lead back if you can look at me be back yes more in here more in here on the orange shirt keep on going for everyone this is one more minute and your heart will get get around heart rate will come into natural heart who here is keep on going don't stretch don't stretch the orange shirt keep on breathing is that you feel more meditated more centered through the mouth you might already have something going keep on going that's you keep on going yes don't stop good yes nice in the picture in the back more on the inhale more energy on the inhale yes so we're already still missing half a minute but just by this four and a half minutes everything has changed sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system have changed they are much more equal your heart rate variability has become much greater there's more tingling in your body you probably perceive the colors much more intensely that's what you want the tingling energy is your ticket to health that means more oxygen more prana awesome so remember the tingles the prana energy goes first where you need it the most so head chest legs is probably where you needed the most if you do this for five more minutes you will feel your whole core start to vibrate and buzz and eventually the whole body will start to vibrate and release major amounts of whatever is stored in your tissue as whole back and tension so it's a huge healing process yes so the first five minutes of breathing like that your periphery is usually starting to tingle your hands and your feet give it five more minutes it's your lower arms your lower legs give it five more minutes it's the rest of your body everywhere vibration and tingling and people will also have states of bliss conscious bliss that they experiencing with this so it's a kind of modality although if you do have a complete experiences from the past usually half the room is laughing hysterically and the other half is crying so that's totally fine it's a cathartic process catharsis and greed means the breathing out of demons and dragons so that's wonderful it's a clearing of the whole energy and you do this three times a day your expansion in your upper chest will increase so your spaciousness in the upper chest where you're breathing where your lungs are will increase and you probably get rid of all the gunk and flamb and everything in your lungs so it's taken to health for you and yes the inhale is where the sympathetic nervous system gets activated where we are for Jane a little bit the exhale we're not efforting at all I have a lot of people that are long distance runners that I work with and they say oh my god I need to usually run 40 minutes to have my endorphins release in my brain like that to feel this high and they're getting it within 10 minutes and they're not doing anything just greening because when you're running and doing yoga you're bleeding away about 80% of your energy so this means you're going way above the breathing pressure very quickly because you're not doing any physical movement if you ever depressed this is great to do or you're feeling kind of low or whatever it's better than going for that sugar spec you just sit at your office desk and you do five minutes of this you'll feel a marked change in your whole consciousness your awareness everything where I like the drum that you're beating eventually when you're good drama you feel like the drum is beating you the breath will breathe you eventually and it becomes extremely effortless but that is a little while intercession yeah yeah wonderful yes robbing clean lane vibration absolutely and also a little of the same in my chest which is interesting because I've broken every bone in my chest yes over 20 years ago yeah so that's where it goes first yeah any injuries any kind of physiological accidents that you have left over remnants from cellulose the breath will go first there the conscious brother start to heal it even back injuries I have people come that have gone to acupuncture chiropractic everything to breathing sessions gone it's powerful physiologically as well as emotionally and spiritually yes yes and you know if you were to do this regularly yes you can if you were to do this regularly this is the ticket to into your brain and into your nervous system so do calm down your nervous system and to get you out of fight or flight or any kind of anxiety this is the ticket to it it's amazing yeah yeah that's that's why some of you feel it here as well because usually people with anxiety disorder that I see as private lines this is where it's at it is amazing it is amazing so in the five minutes you're scratching the surface now when you go longer than five minutes that was your question the gentleman back there you getting into emotional like psychospirical territory and that's wonderful as well but that's a whole different ballgame which is why you can come to these workshops and they're wonderful and I'll talk more in depth of what your experience will be when you do 450 minutes of this and it's also incredible so typically with people that hold their brother my husband is one of them you would always you know he's like a martial artist or you do that kind of chigo I'm like no no just relax just dump it just like skiing down the mountain and eventually say what are you telling me I'm doing it because you have that pattern of controlling the exhale and I was basically asking him to change a major pattern in his life that was related to relaxing and why is it possible to let life come to you and you don't always have to orchestrate every single minute of your life and you have a good cathartic breathing therapist after 10 sessions you're on your own and you have this for the rest of your life and it is a ticket to longevity because even myself I have so many emotional holdbacks you know I think oh I'm doing really great I'm everything is fine you know I'm just perfect you know and then I lie down for my breathing fashion and within 10 minutes like I'm balling my eyes out because we always operate on the surface kind of mask what we present to the outside world mentality we barely learn to check off in with our inner landscape so this is like an inner journey for you to discover like oh you know how like I didn't know I was doing that and and look at that I'm really sensitive over here and I'm seeing all these angels and guardians and spirit things that way you know so that's a nice nice benefit of the cathartic breakthrough it opens up levels of consciousness into the more deeper aspects of the cathartic breath emotional things will come up that are part of cellular memories from the past so our birth scenario can get triggered so you what you're feeling might not necessarily be what you're feeling right now it might be an incomplete experience coming up from the past to get released so when you're holding positions in yoga you're bleeding away about 80% of your energy because you're holding positions physically that's why we're lying down when we're lying down we're not moving unless involuntarily releasing things and you can fill yourself completely with 100% prana so incorporating in yoga practice probably not it's its own kind of modality yeah but nice thought your heart responds to the outside and stimulus the last thing you want is for your heart to not do these little skips and whatever it is doing every time it does skips and things like that it's like yay and then you sit down and breathe for five minutes and the reason we don't breathe is why do you think we don't breathe because we have we learn the first time we come as babies onto this planet and many of you were born in the 50s and 60s and possibly 40s and how do you come in as birth and then you start screaming right it's not the most wonderful thing not like the Hawaiian indigenous people birthing their babies in the ocean where the baby gets to like you know rest and take its own breath and umbilical cords get slowly dislodged you know when the when the pulsation stops and no trauma with the first breath but most of us have that and as a result of that transitioning scenario we get scared but in cathartic breath where you will release that you don't only do it two times a day or one time a day it's nice you'll have some nice effects but you really need to do it like brushing your teeth if you do this three times a day for five minutes this have all have an effect for the first three days for four hours afterwards you will feel more centered and present and alive and then for weeks after that so you do you keep on doing this for a month you'll have the effects longer and longer it's amazing yeah so there's a lot of involuntary movements that can happen at the beginning when you first start to clear your house yeah yes okay so I couldn't I can't stop yeah you can't stop I know you're still doing it that's great that means your body wants it yeah that means you're ready for it in your body wants it yes absolutely yes I'm just curious if you ever work with addicts in recovery absolutely absolutely yeah and it's it's amazing it's very very helpful because they get out of their personality and their personal kind of stuff and they get into the trans personal and the trans person means basically the realm of spirit and consciousness and when you are like a study stuff graph the psychiatrist that invented a holotrophic breathwork he worked with non rehabilitatable prisoners in California and he did catholic breathwork with them and within like two sessions or something they were like is there woodworking here do we have yoga what can we do to is a library and these are people that were completely uninterested and so it really works on the inside of your essence as well yeah yes so if you have more questions we go for another round we have 10 more minutes left and we go for any more questions before yes that's why it's literally a using kind of modality the the gentleman that I studied from Leonard or was termed as modality rebirthing way back 20 years ago he's now in his 80s he doesn't look one day over 60 and his energy is incredible he still teaches huge corporate catholic breathworks in Brazil all over the planet and he swears by this he gives himself a breathing session every day like once a day you know for an hour that's it and he's fabulous you know I'm we're all creatures of habit so I have to admit I do two breathing sessions a week but when when I hit an impasse either emotionally or physically in my life I had intense plantar fasciitis some years ago and I did a cold water breathing session and it took two cold water breathing sessions to breathe all the plantar fasciitis was gone that's usually six weeks cold water cold water there is in the 10 sessions there's a cold water breathing session where you are as submerged in the top with your head out breathing in cold water because it's extremely catalyzing and wonderful for your system and it's you breathe out any kind of late disease processes so it's a very powerful way of releasing any kind of physiological constrictions see bodies in cold water yes your body and your head is out leading and your breathing yeah that's in the 10 sessions that's not true for the workshop yeah so here we go again what can we say it's nice when you start this five three times a day for five minutes it's nice if you have a little affirmation so we can say right now I'm alive and I thrive till I'm five how is that that's a great affirmation for your body to do that before you start breathing in the five minutes or you can also say with every conscious breath I am extremely optimally healthy and alive yeah so you do one affirmation and you don't have to keep on doing that just do it once and then you breathe yeah so it sets you can tell somebody to open their eyes and do we need to have our eyes open when you are doing the 15 minutes no you don't and right now you don't either you don't have to your eyes open my tendency is for the five minutes when you have your eyes closed a lot of the internal thought processes start to happen yeah so when you keep your eyes open it's just better to just sense your breath feel your breath don't be intellectual about this just as you're breathing see and feel into all the sensations that come up in your body yeah and you can do it too yay so here we go we go for another five minutes that will be the second time just to let you know you might have a very different experience the second time round but if you still have tension in the same area as chances are very 90% that the breath will go there and start to tingle and vibrate you okay here we go so deep inhale relaxing on the exhale here we go everybody in there you can do that on your own speed but when your inhale is filling up your upper chest go for pick up the new inhale so don't have long gaps there's a little gap and a little gap to inhale in the exhale beautiful putting on the inhale bring your awareness into your inner body yes and just breathe normally again just become aware of what is tingling and what is not what is vibrating what is not yes that's nice slowing down breathing still now and then a deeper in here you can breathe from the top of your crown of your head and all of my energy anatomy is tingling the way I know that is by all these goosebumps on the outside and inside of my being goosebumps is wonderful you want goosebumps and those goosebumps will eventually translate into tingling throughout your whole being that's what you want this is your work rate right this is the way to live your life from a much more expanded state just within five minutes wow so amazing that's great good fabulous ladies and gents will go around again so I'm experiencing tingling in my upper arm tingling throughout my legs tillie tingling in my head and I feel pretty darn good our bodies are mirrors for our minds and emotions so you have this wonderful tools so about 80 to 85% of our physical symptoms are emotionally cost so we hold back our emotions all the time so there's very few venues for our modern society to get into a cathartic multi experiential kind of breathing release so it's it's wonderful to feel and feeling more healing translates more energy through laughter other people through crying other people through feeling angry you know so anything that has been put under the rug comes up from the rug fairly quickly so your connection between your implicit and explicit memory you unconscious and your conscious gets much more transparent which is what we want because that way you get healthy longer you don't have to carry around all these psychosomatic things that will eventually be expressed with your body that should be expressed with your emotions happiness at the same time but my rug is being with him and relaxation and tingling and happiness it's a great beautiful that's wonderful yeah that's your first right fabulous yeah I felt tingling further up in my legs and I also cut like a runner's crap and I felt pain in my neck and my chest yes so that happens when there is residual tightness and what happens like I said the graph highlights anything that is already sort of tight so it goes there and highlights if you were to breathe longer that would release yeah on every emotional mental physical and spiritual you say the dates again yes I have one is on August 4th Sunday at studio Zenith from 3 to 5 and the other one is this Friday at a Paul's River yoga studio beautiful space as well from 6 to 8 that's a north field north field falls route 12 and five minutes away from Markelia very close it's fabulous yeah please come and you can come to both what a concept you'll be levitating when I work with when I work with people that are above 70 you know normally you know some people that are not so much into exercise they can't lift up their arm for a long time when they start to do cathartic breath where they're lying down and suddenly their arms will lift off by themselves and start to levitate for the entire session without any kind of effort it was this midwife that was birthing her third child and her two children were around her her husband was behind her in a birthing tub she was pulling out the baby by herself the baby was breathing underwater and she disconnected the umbilical cord after 15 minutes the baby baby was breathing underwater come in here there was no crying there was no trauma involved so as a result of being born in gravity you know we have this fontanella up here on the top of our crown chakra which usually when you're not born through gravity but in water sticks open so there's a little bit of a soft spot here that the baby has which is our connection to the cosmos and when you start to do breath work and you release your birth scenario all the bones in your head and in your body will start to reconfigure themselves and become more pliable and subtle again it's pretty cool and I have two offices one in Worcester and one in Boston so if you need more private work because you're dealing with it some kind of issue that might not be resolved in a group reading session we can come for private sessions as well