Conscious Connected Breathwork
Trauma Informed
Nervous System Regulation
for professionals under pressure.
Helping you move from ‘Grey’ to Vibrant.
Why Breathwork?
Throughout my time of self-exploration one phrase would always come up –
how I needed to “feel my emotions“.
My unspoken reply was usually “how do I do that?“, especially after working in Technology for 30 years in the City. It felt like I had been actively trying not to feel my emotions to enable me to function at my highest capacity. But this had made my life functional but feel “grey”.
Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) was the practice that opened that door for me, to release the stress I was holding and allow my emotions to flow through me again. I could finally allow myself to feel and connect to the vibrancy of life.
Upgrading my nervous system expanded my capacity for every part of my life, not only work.
I work with people 1-to-1 in a private, soundproofed garden studio in East Barnet, North London (EN4), and online for those who prefer the comfort of their own space. Every session is tailored to where you are and held at your pace. If you want to know what a session actually involves, I’ve laid it out in full. I am a member of the UK Breathwork Association and bring both lived experience and professional training to every session.
Read more about my journey on my about page. Or jump straight to the benefits of this breathwork.
Do I need to know what I’m trying to release?
CCB is often called “therapy without talking“.
There is never any pressure or expectation for you to discuss what came up in a session.
This can be helpful for men and women who don’t want to talk about their feelings and their past but still need a way to release old emotions from their body. It is never “too late” to work with the breath and the most recent or the oldest tension can always be released, when the body is ready. CCB is also excellent for people who have a lot of resistance to feeling and allowing feelings, who live in their mind continuously trying to control life (this was me).
CCB is a somatic, “bottom up” approach. In somatic breathwork we are working closely with the body, the autonomic nervous system* and the subconscious mind.
Emotions are often able to be fully processed without any story attached, without you having to know what they were about. Sometimes from the breathwork, deep understandings can come to you for integration into your conscious mind. This is not a necessary part of the process, it works regardless.
Sometimes breathwork can be shown as very visible emotional release, lots of crying or big physical release. This is not a requirement. Often integration of strong emotions is best facilitated using titration of the feeling (a little at a time), rather than going for an extreme. The level of outward emotion is highly variable from person to person, and even from session to session.
The healing power of the breath works either way.
All is welcome, nothing is required.
* “What is the autonomic nervous system?”
The ANS controls various involuntary functions of the body, including heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and breathing. There are typically two modes that the ANS can be in: sympathetic (fight/flight), and parasympathetic (rest/digest). When the system moves into one or the other, various functions change to support the expected requirement – for example flight would increase breathing and decrease digestion. The ANS has one activity that the conscious mind can control, and that is how you breathe. Changing how we breathe is how we can directly influence the state of the ANS using our conscious mind.
David provides a beautifully open and safe space. He is highly intuitive, grounded, and has a strong, steady holding presence that allowed my inner wisdom to guide the process in its own way and pace.
Charlotte
London
Benefits of CCB.
The benefits of CCB include:
- Capacity for Life: Things that used to trigger you or you couldn’t handle stop being such a problem. You can take on more. This is because CCB expands your Window of Tolerance by somatically integrating the physiological “backlog” of stored stress which is keeping your capacity small.
- Feeling First: CCB allows you to feel your feelings without any story required. Because it is a somatic, “bottom-up” practice that can either move the blocks without talking or work alongside talking therapies to improve their efficiency.
- Experience deep Calm and Safety: Brings nervous system regulation, a feeling of deep calm, safety and rest. CCB reduces your baseline of stress, anxiety and panic and recalibrates your nervous system to this calmer level.
- Vibrant Presence: Feel like you are coming back to life again, seeing the world with fresh eyes. Facilitates the transition from “functional grey” to an integrated, vibrant life, at work and at home.
- Pattern Disruption: Use the breath to address the root causes of repeating negative patterns in your life. Allows you to address the subconscious physical roots that are driving decisions you don’t want to continue to make.
- Physical Tension Release: Unlock more energy in your body. CCB dissolves unconscious physically held stress and tension from the muscles and fascia that you likely are unaware of, reducing the “system lag” of your body.
If you are interested then more details are available on the page mechanics of CCB.
If you feel ready to take the next step, please get in touch.
David is one of the most special facilitators I have been to for CCB (Conscious Connected Breathwork).
Kelly
London
Is Breathwork right for me?
CCB uses the combination of breath, acupressure and safe gentle touch (through clothes), affirmations and the simple presence of someone safe next to you. These together support your whole self – conscious and unconscious mind, physical body, nervous system, spirit – in a place of safety.
It is from this place of safety that the body and subconscious mind can then allow buried emotions or physical blocks to be released, felt and integrated. You lead the way at the right pace for you. I will be at your side to support your process at your speed.
Your body and mind knows what is safe, and when it feels safe it will allow the trapped feelings to flow.
There are some contra-indications for CCB which are below. If you have any of these symptoms then CCB may not be the right practice for you. Book a connection call if you want to discuss further.
Contra-indications for CCB include:
- Heart disease or significant cardiovascular issues
- Severe asthma or respiratory conditions
- Epilepsy or a history of seizures
- Serious psychiatric conditions, including psychosis or bipolar disorder
- Pregnancy, especially in the first trimester
- Acute physical injuries or recent surgery (last 6 months)
- Glaucoma, retinal detachment, cataracts or recent eye surgery
- Aneurysms, stroke or family history of aneurysms
If you wish to review the full consent form, it is here.
If you have a more serious medical, psychiatric, or physical health condition, or have recently been hospitalized, it is critical to consult with your medical doctor before beginning breathwork.
If you have concerns over whether CCB is right for you, please drop me an email or book a connection call to discuss.